Chloe Sydney
@chloe-sydney.bsky.social
Migration research and data collection expert, currently supporting the Mixed Migration Centre - opinions here are my own. Also juggling two (soon three) small children, and settling into our new home in the Basque Country. Euskara ikasten!
"I feel a deep emotional pull and nostalgia for my homeland, but I also know I need to set aside emotions and think rationally," a #refugee from #Syria tells @mixedmigration.org.
Read more in the latest Mixed Migration Review #MMR2025.
mmr2025.mixedmigration.org/mmr/2025/syr...
Read more in the latest Mixed Migration Review #MMR2025.
mmr2025.mixedmigration.org/mmr/2025/syr...
Syrian refugees torn between staying or returning home - Mixed Migration Centre
A Syrian refugee weighs the pull of home against the realities of return, facing insecurity, loss and limited prospects in a region still marked by conflict.
mmr2025.mixedmigration.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"I feel a deep emotional pull and nostalgia for my homeland, but I also know I need to set aside emotions and think rationally," a #refugee from #Syria tells @mixedmigration.org.
Read more in the latest Mixed Migration Review #MMR2025.
mmr2025.mixedmigration.org/mmr/2025/syr...
Read more in the latest Mixed Migration Review #MMR2025.
mmr2025.mixedmigration.org/mmr/2025/syr...
Great time to return from maternity leave: the Mixed Migration Review 2025 is out!
This year, @mixedmigration.org's flagship report explores #migration in the context of geopolitical turmoil.
Happy reading!
#MMR2025
This year, @mixedmigration.org's flagship report explores #migration in the context of geopolitical turmoil.
Happy reading!
#MMR2025
Now live: the Mixed Migration Review 2025 #MMR2025
The MMR2025 looks at how geopolitical turmoil is reshaping mixed migration — with extreme hardline measures becoming the new normal.
📘 Explore the MMR: https://f.mtr.cool/yyfizohvkl
The MMR2025 looks at how geopolitical turmoil is reshaping mixed migration — with extreme hardline measures becoming the new normal.
📘 Explore the MMR: https://f.mtr.cool/yyfizohvkl
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Great time to return from maternity leave: the Mixed Migration Review 2025 is out!
This year, @mixedmigration.org's flagship report explores #migration in the context of geopolitical turmoil.
Happy reading!
#MMR2025
This year, @mixedmigration.org's flagship report explores #migration in the context of geopolitical turmoil.
Happy reading!
#MMR2025
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This year's Mixed Migration Review #MMR2025 examines how migration dynamics are reshaping in response to a context of intensified geopolitical turmoil. Join us for the online launch on Nov 20, 14:00-15:30 CET.
💻➡️ Register on Zoom: https://f.mtr.cool/qhbvurkhfe
💻➡️ Register on Zoom: https://f.mtr.cool/qhbvurkhfe
September 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This year's Mixed Migration Review #MMR2025 examines how migration dynamics are reshaping in response to a context of intensified geopolitical turmoil. Join us for the online launch on Nov 20, 14:00-15:30 CET.
💻➡️ Register on Zoom: https://f.mtr.cool/qhbvurkhfe
💻➡️ Register on Zoom: https://f.mtr.cool/qhbvurkhfe
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This is a very clear historical and current summary, and utterly damning. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza
Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 6:24 AM
This is a very clear historical and current summary, and utterly damning. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Of 73,097 migrants we surveyed worldwide, 5.7% report experiencing trafficking / exploitation. While the data can't be considered representative - it does provide insight into experiences & profiles of survivors. @chloe-sydney.bsky.social explores the findings 🧵 ⬇️
Trafficking and exploitation in mixed migration | Mixed Migration Centre
This article looks at the experience of 4,131 people who reported being subject to trafficking and exploitation.
f.mtr.cool
April 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Of 73,097 migrants we surveyed worldwide, 5.7% report experiencing trafficking / exploitation. While the data can't be considered representative - it does provide insight into experiences & profiles of survivors. @chloe-sydney.bsky.social explores the findings 🧵 ⬇️
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New report on smuggling & migration to Europe: Are EU & UK policies stopping irregular migration? Our findings show deterrence isn’t preventing irregular migration — but reshaping it, at great human cost to migrants & to the benefit of smuggling networks 🧵 1/7
March 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
New report on smuggling & migration to Europe: Are EU & UK policies stopping irregular migration? Our findings show deterrence isn’t preventing irregular migration — but reshaping it, at great human cost to migrants & to the benefit of smuggling networks 🧵 1/7
"They chained us by the feet, sometimes they came and raped us […] I was there for 3 months and I managed to escape. I still have the mark of the chain." - Venezuelan lady in Colombia
This article was tough to write - but it's also about women's bravery & resilience. Read on: tinyurl.com/4p8warjw
This article was tough to write - but it's also about women's bravery & resilience. Read on: tinyurl.com/4p8warjw
Horror and hope in migration: voices of women on the move | Mixed Migration Centre
For international women's day we share their stories of horror and hope through selected data and quotes, highlighting gender-based violence as both a driver of migration and an extreme risk for those...
mixedmigration.org
March 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
"They chained us by the feet, sometimes they came and raped us […] I was there for 3 months and I managed to escape. I still have the mark of the chain." - Venezuelan lady in Colombia
This article was tough to write - but it's also about women's bravery & resilience. Read on: tinyurl.com/4p8warjw
This article was tough to write - but it's also about women's bravery & resilience. Read on: tinyurl.com/4p8warjw
"While the world and media are fixated on the first days of the Trump administration, Rwanda apparently saw an opportunity to act without consequence."
Read the opinion peace by @denismukwege.bsky.social (2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate & founder of Panzi):
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/o...
Read the opinion peace by @denismukwege.bsky.social (2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate & founder of Panzi):
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/o...
Opinion | Congo Is Bleeding. Where Is the Outrage? (Gift Article)
This is not the first time the world has overlooked violence in the country.
www.nytimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
"While the world and media are fixated on the first days of the Trump administration, Rwanda apparently saw an opportunity to act without consequence."
Read the opinion peace by @denismukwege.bsky.social (2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate & founder of Panzi):
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/o...
Read the opinion peace by @denismukwege.bsky.social (2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate & founder of Panzi):
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/o...
In Ukraine, the suspension of U.S. funding has forced the Danish Refugee Council (which @mixedmigration.org is part of) to stop clearing the equivalent of 50 football fields of land contaminated with landmines and unexploded ordnances. Find out more about the impacts here:
drc.ngo/resources/ne...
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Humanitarian aid for over 2 million people at risk as Danish Refugee Council faces suspension of U.S. funding
The recent directives by the U.S. government are sending shockwaves through communities already grappling with crises. Millions of vulnerable people, reliant on aid from organizations like the Danish ...
drc.ngo
February 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM
In Ukraine, the suspension of U.S. funding has forced the Danish Refugee Council (which @mixedmigration.org is part of) to stop clearing the equivalent of 50 football fields of land contaminated with landmines and unexploded ordnances. Find out more about the impacts here:
drc.ngo/resources/ne...
drc.ngo/resources/ne...
Today I presented @mixedmigration.org to around a hundred 10-year-olds.
Their (excellent) questions included "how/when has data you collect helped make people’s journeys safer?"
Our UNICEF-funded 4Mi project in Honduras is a good example of our data informing programming. More here: t.ly/LbZ_G
Their (excellent) questions included "how/when has data you collect helped make people’s journeys safer?"
Our UNICEF-funded 4Mi project in Honduras is a good example of our data informing programming. More here: t.ly/LbZ_G
Guide of Good Practices for the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Children on the Move in the Americas – Inter-American Dialogue
The Good Practices Guide for the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Children on the Move in the Americas presents good practices that contribute to the comprehensive development, well-being, an...
t.ly
February 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Today I presented @mixedmigration.org to around a hundred 10-year-olds.
Their (excellent) questions included "how/when has data you collect helped make people’s journeys safer?"
Our UNICEF-funded 4Mi project in Honduras is a good example of our data informing programming. More here: t.ly/LbZ_G
Their (excellent) questions included "how/when has data you collect helped make people’s journeys safer?"
Our UNICEF-funded 4Mi project in Honduras is a good example of our data informing programming. More here: t.ly/LbZ_G
Reposted by Chloe Sydney
At least 50 bodies of migrants were found in two mass graves in Libya: bit.ly/4hxWp86
Whenever you see news about "interceptions by Libyan CoastGuard", remember:
🔴mass graves
🔴Detention
🔴Shootings
🔴Thirst & hunger
🔴Forced Labour
🔴Sexual violence
🔴Pushbacks/Pullbacks
🔴Violating right to asylum
Whenever you see news about "interceptions by Libyan CoastGuard", remember:
🔴mass graves
🔴Detention
🔴Shootings
🔴Thirst & hunger
🔴Forced Labour
🔴Sexual violence
🔴Pushbacks/Pullbacks
🔴Violating right to asylum
February 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
At least 50 bodies of migrants were found in two mass graves in Libya: bit.ly/4hxWp86
Whenever you see news about "interceptions by Libyan CoastGuard", remember:
🔴mass graves
🔴Detention
🔴Shootings
🔴Thirst & hunger
🔴Forced Labour
🔴Sexual violence
🔴Pushbacks/Pullbacks
🔴Violating right to asylum
Whenever you see news about "interceptions by Libyan CoastGuard", remember:
🔴mass graves
🔴Detention
🔴Shootings
🔴Thirst & hunger
🔴Forced Labour
🔴Sexual violence
🔴Pushbacks/Pullbacks
🔴Violating right to asylum
Reposted by Chloe Sydney
📢 We are hiring! MMC is seeking a Data Protection Consultant to strengthen its data protection practices.
⏱️ Application deadline: 15 February 2025
📍 Location: Geneva
📝 Apply: https://www.pro.drc.ngo/resources/tenders/gva-mmc-25-957/
⏱️ Application deadline: 15 February 2025
📍 Location: Geneva
📝 Apply: https://www.pro.drc.ngo/resources/tenders/gva-mmc-25-957/
February 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
📢 We are hiring! MMC is seeking a Data Protection Consultant to strengthen its data protection practices.
⏱️ Application deadline: 15 February 2025
📍 Location: Geneva
📝 Apply: https://www.pro.drc.ngo/resources/tenders/gva-mmc-25-957/
⏱️ Application deadline: 15 February 2025
📍 Location: Geneva
📝 Apply: https://www.pro.drc.ngo/resources/tenders/gva-mmc-25-957/
Check out @mixedmigration.org's 2024 achievements, including 18,675 interviews with #refugees and #migrants in 26 countries, feeding into our global database of 78,000+ interviews.
Access the data here: mixedmigration.org/4mi/4mi-inte...
Access the data here: mixedmigration.org/4mi/4mi-inte...
📊 Just released MMC 2024 annual catalogue, with all publications based on data from our 4Mi surveys across major mixed migration routes.
✅ Why people migrate
✅ Where they hope to go
✅ Protection risks
✅ Smuggling dynamics
✅ Info access & needs
and more
Here it is: 🔗 https://bit.ly/3EepIgZ
✅ Why people migrate
✅ Where they hope to go
✅ Protection risks
✅ Smuggling dynamics
✅ Info access & needs
and more
Here it is: 🔗 https://bit.ly/3EepIgZ
January 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Check out @mixedmigration.org's 2024 achievements, including 18,675 interviews with #refugees and #migrants in 26 countries, feeding into our global database of 78,000+ interviews.
Access the data here: mixedmigration.org/4mi/4mi-inte...
Access the data here: mixedmigration.org/4mi/4mi-inte...
Reposted by Chloe Sydney
Unfortunately this isn't a one-off
More and more people, including kids, are dying while trying to cross into the EU via land. Calls for help to emergency services are being ignored
This is where Europe's growing anti-refugee/migrant sentiment has got us www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
More and more people, including kids, are dying while trying to cross into the EU via land. Calls for help to emergency services are being ignored
This is where Europe's growing anti-refugee/migrant sentiment has got us www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Bulgarian police ‘blocked rescue’ of teenage migrants who froze to death
Report by rights groups alleges border police refused to rescue boys and blocked activists’ efforts to save them
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Unfortunately this isn't a one-off
More and more people, including kids, are dying while trying to cross into the EU via land. Calls for help to emergency services are being ignored
This is where Europe's growing anti-refugee/migrant sentiment has got us www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
More and more people, including kids, are dying while trying to cross into the EU via land. Calls for help to emergency services are being ignored
This is where Europe's growing anti-refugee/migrant sentiment has got us www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
How does travelling with #children impact #migrant decision-making? In this blog, we draw on data collected by the @mixedmigration.org in Italy, Tunisia, and Niger as part of the PACES project to explore find out more.
www.iss.nl/en/news/risk...
www.iss.nl/en/news/risk...
Risks and rewards: How travelling with children shapes migrant decision-making
In a new PACES Perspectives blog, researcher Chloe Sydney illustrates the dilemmas parents and caregivers make on the world's major migration routes
www.iss.nl
January 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
How does travelling with #children impact #migrant decision-making? In this blog, we draw on data collected by the @mixedmigration.org in Italy, Tunisia, and Niger as part of the PACES project to explore find out more.
www.iss.nl/en/news/risk...
www.iss.nl/en/news/risk...
"Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution" - Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
See also Article 33 of the Refugee Convention on the prohibition of expulsion or refoulement.
See also Article 33 of the Refugee Convention on the prohibition of expulsion or refoulement.
Donald Trump allows the U.S. government to stop adhering to international asylum law.
"An invasion is ongoing at the southern border .. [officials can] repel, repatriate, or remove" migrants, suspending their "physical entry" into the U.S.".
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
"An invasion is ongoing at the southern border .. [officials can] repel, repatriate, or remove" migrants, suspending their "physical entry" into the U.S.".
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
GUARANTEEING THE STATES PROTECTION AGAINST INVASION – The White House
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
"Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution" - Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
See also Article 33 of the Refugee Convention on the prohibition of expulsion or refoulement.
See also Article 33 of the Refugee Convention on the prohibition of expulsion or refoulement.
Reposted by Chloe Sydney
Donald Trump allows the U.S. government to stop adhering to international asylum law.
"An invasion is ongoing at the southern border .. [officials can] repel, repatriate, or remove" migrants, suspending their "physical entry" into the U.S.".
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
"An invasion is ongoing at the southern border .. [officials can] repel, repatriate, or remove" migrants, suspending their "physical entry" into the U.S.".
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
GUARANTEEING THE STATES PROTECTION AGAINST INVASION – The White House
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Donald Trump allows the U.S. government to stop adhering to international asylum law.
"An invasion is ongoing at the southern border .. [officials can] repel, repatriate, or remove" migrants, suspending their "physical entry" into the U.S.".
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
"An invasion is ongoing at the southern border .. [officials can] repel, repatriate, or remove" migrants, suspending their "physical entry" into the U.S.".
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Reposted by Chloe Sydney
The text of Trump's citizenship executive order attacks the citizenship not just of Americans born in the US to immigrants without legal status, but also of people without lawful permanent residency. A reminder that you can't change the constitution through an EO. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Protecting The Meaning And Value Of American Citizenship – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The text of Trump's citizenship executive order attacks the citizenship not just of Americans born in the US to immigrants without legal status, but also of people without lawful permanent residency. A reminder that you can't change the constitution through an EO. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Reposted by Chloe Sydney
What impact on mixed migration if Trump enacts mass deportations, shuts asylum, & toughens migration policies? Migration pressures won’t disappear—conflict, poverty & climate change will keep driving movement. So what can happen? Full article here: https://bit.ly/40Brd1E
January 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
What impact on mixed migration if Trump enacts mass deportations, shuts asylum, & toughens migration policies? Migration pressures won’t disappear—conflict, poverty & climate change will keep driving movement. So what can happen? Full article here: https://bit.ly/40Brd1E
Reposted by Chloe Sydney
Exclusive: Afghans evacuated by US in chaos of withdrawal are languishing in foreign camps, documents reveal.
New from me, for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
New from me, for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Afghans evacuated by US in chaos of withdrawal are languishing in foreign camps, documents reveal
Exclusive: records show evacuees with pending applications to enter US ‘forced to remain in limbo’ in at least 36 countries, some in ‘untenable conditions’
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Exclusive: Afghans evacuated by US in chaos of withdrawal are languishing in foreign camps, documents reveal.
New from me, for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
New from me, for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Reposted by Chloe Sydney
New @mixedmigration.org report. Through regression analysis, we statistically defined which factors increase #vulnerability of young #migrants in #Sudan & #Ethiopia. Key risk factors: working, using smugglers, and nationality. More here: mixedmigration.org/resource/mig...
A sharper lense on vulnerability: migrant youth in Sudan & Ethiopia | Mixed Migration Centre
This report provides a statistical analysis of vulnerability of migrant youth in Sudan and Ethiopia based on data collected in 2022-2023.
mixedmigration.org
January 9, 2025 at 10:42 AM
New @mixedmigration.org report. Through regression analysis, we statistically defined which factors increase #vulnerability of young #migrants in #Sudan & #Ethiopia. Key risk factors: working, using smugglers, and nationality. More here: mixedmigration.org/resource/mig...
It's been a great few months with @mixedmigration.org. Looking forward to a busy year ahead, with 4Mi data collection with #migrants (incl. #refugees, victims of trafficking, and people seeking better lives) planned in 30+ countries along the world's major #migration routes. Stay tuned!
December 20, 2024 at 3:08 PM
It's been a great few months with @mixedmigration.org. Looking forward to a busy year ahead, with 4Mi data collection with #migrants (incl. #refugees, victims of trafficking, and people seeking better lives) planned in 30+ countries along the world's major #migration routes. Stay tuned!
Reposted by Chloe Sydney
🌍 On international migrant day #IMD2024 we share what 60,000 migrants told us, busting common myths. Myth: Smugglers play a key role in luring people into irregular migration. Reality: Only 4% of 60,000 surveyed migrants cited smugglers as an influence. Full answers below
December 18, 2024 at 2:02 PM
🌍 On international migrant day #IMD2024 we share what 60,000 migrants told us, busting common myths. Myth: Smugglers play a key role in luring people into irregular migration. Reality: Only 4% of 60,000 surveyed migrants cited smugglers as an influence. Full answers below
Today I revisited a report on durable solutions in #Syria I wrote for @idmc-geneva.bsky.social in 2018, with lessons from Bosnia, Colombia, Iraq, Kosovo & Sri Lanka. Still relevant, e.g. on property restitution, minority returns, and personal documentation. Worth a read!
tinyurl.com/yu27fafv
tinyurl.com/yu27fafv
Searching for solutions: Lessons for Syria
Our mission is to provide high-quality data, analysis and expertise on internal displacement with the aim of informing policy and operational decisions that can reduce the risk of future displacement ...
www.internal-displacement.org
December 17, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Today I revisited a report on durable solutions in #Syria I wrote for @idmc-geneva.bsky.social in 2018, with lessons from Bosnia, Colombia, Iraq, Kosovo & Sri Lanka. Still relevant, e.g. on property restitution, minority returns, and personal documentation. Worth a read!
tinyurl.com/yu27fafv
tinyurl.com/yu27fafv