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December 2023
Paper
Refugees and migrants embark on journeys along mixed migration routes for a myriad of reasons. Understanding why people leave their home countries or move onward, and what influences their decision-making, is essential to better understand mixed migration and inform evidence-based migration policies and protection responses.
The question of why people migrate — the drivers and decision-making processes their journeys entail — has therefore been a primary focus of the Mixed Migration Centre (MMC). This paper, based on a decade of extensive research and expert analysis, including more than 100,000 4Mi surveys of refugees and migrants, synthesizes our key insights and sets out five key messages.
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