Learning Series
Migrants, Refugees, and Societies
The World Bank Group Institute for Economic Development and the Core Learning and Solutions Services (CLASS) are pleased to announce the launch of a new flagship learning series based on the World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees, and Societies.
How can migration lift people out of poverty? How can its benefits be measured? How will current demographic trends and climate change affect future migration patterns? And what can origin and destination countries do to ease the integration of migrants and refugees, and mitigate brain drain?
The learning series will address these questions and more in its nine modules, each designed to be self-contained and taught over two to four days:
- Module 1: Migration and Development: Concepts and Data
- Module 2: Migrants and Refugees: Statistics and Global Databases
- Module 3: Measuring the Impact of Migration – Empirical Methods
- Module 4: Demographic Trends across the World and International Migration
- Module 5: Climate Change and Migration
- Module 6: Forced Displacement
- Module 7: Economic and Social Integration of Migrants and Refugees
- Module 8: Remittances
- Module 9: Brain Drain
Audience and Qualifications
Journalists covering migration and forced displacement issues; mid-level to senior officials and policymakers in government agencies; development practitioners in international and regional organizations working on migration and forced displacement; NGO workers; researchers and thought leaders from think tanks; and master's and PhD students.
Participants are expected to have a degree in journalism, communication/media studies, economics, political science, or the equivalent.
Details
Duration: 2-3 days per module
Date: Spring 2025 (tentative)
Instructors
The course has been developed by Quy-Toan (Toan) Do (WDR2023 Co-Director and DEC Research Group) and Joyce Ibrahim (WDR2023 Task Team Leader), in partnership with Pablo Ariel Acosta (Social Protection and Jobs Group) and Caglar Ozden (WDR2023 Co-Director and DEC Research Group). Other contributors to the courses preparation and teaching are David McKenzie (DEC Research Group), Sandra Rozo (WDR2023 and DEC Research Group), Narcisse Cha’ngom (WDR2023), Matthew Chase Martin (WDR2023), Viviane Clement (WDR2023 team member and Climate Change Group), Pascal Jaupart (WDR2023 and Social Protection and Jobs Group), Kirsten Schuettler (WDR2023), and Ganesh Seshan (WDR2023 and Poverty and Equity Group).
