Hazards, Disasters and Resilience
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Illustrative: migration and displacement corridors, between generated places
Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Hazards, Disasters and Resilience
People move toward opportunity and away from risk, and each move changes exposure at origin and destination.
The model
From a wage gap to a migration flow: how population, income differentials, distance and a diaspora enter a gravity model
DataModelGateDecisionStandard it teachesStandard it relies onNeighbouring discipline
The model From a wage gap to a migration flow: how population, income differentials, distance and a diaspora enter a gravity model
The subtopics its courses and labs teach.
Courses in development extend the scope to one further subject: Migration, mobility and risk.
For analysts, planners and policy officers who need to read migration data, understand why people move or stay, and see how mobility changes exposure to hazards in places of origin and destination.
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Migration and human mobility's own model, as a live chart: move each parameter and read how the outputs respond.
Search any place or open the world; the layers and generators follow migration and human mobility on the planet map, the globe and in 3D.
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Flat plan of the same data: relief, the two epicentres with magnitude and depth, the WorldPop count grid and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
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Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Migration and human mobility.
Search termsMigration and human mobility; Drivers of migration; Labour migration and remittances; Climate-related mobility; Planned relocation; Immobility and trapped populationsDerived from the Risk Academy page on Migration and human mobility.
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Research and preprints as they are published, by discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The hub lists the newest research and preprints for Migration and human mobility, each with its source and date. Open the research hub
Recent developments in migration and human mobility, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026.
IDMC's 2026 global report counted 82.2 million people internally displaced at end-2025, the first decrease in a decade, while conflict displacements rose about 60% to a record 32.3 million and disaster displacements fell to 29.9 million.
Why it matters. Returns do not equal durable solutions, and IDMC notes data gaps; mobility risk analysis needs to combine conflict and disaster triggers in the same places.
Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2026 Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID), 1 May 2026.
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| Technology that helps | Digital public infrastructure and digital identity. |
| Risk technology creates | Exclusion, surveillance and the automation of work. |
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Earn two discipline achievements in the Department of Humanitarian Action, Mobility and Community Resilience. In development.
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