Methods, Approaches and Data Sources for Estimating Stocks of Irregular Migrants

• Published in: International migration Vol. 49; no. 5; pp. 53 - 77
• Main Author: Jandl, Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.10.2011
• Subjects: Classification; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Data; Data collection; Emigrants and Immigrants - education; Emigrants and Immigrants - history; Emigrants and Immigrants - legislation & jurisprudence; Emigrants and Immigrants - psychology; Estimation; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Illegal immigrants; Information sources; Migrants; Population projections; Quality standards; Research - economics; Research - education; Research - history; Research Methodology; Research methods; Statistics as Topic - economics; Statistics as Topic - education; Statistics as Topic - history; Transients and Migrants - education; Transients and Migrants - history; Transients and Migrants - legislation & jurisprudence; Transients and Migrants - psychology; Vulnerable Populations - ethnology; Vulnerable Populations - legislation & jurisprudence; Vulnerable Populations - psychology

This paper presents a comprehensive review of available methods for sizing irregular migrant populations as a particular group in the study of hidden populations. Based on the existing body of literature on the subject, a generic classification scheme is developed that divides existing estimation pr...