Dataset: Maps

Maps are perhaps the most ancient means of charting migration across oceans and continents. Since the 19th century they’ve been tools for governments and other official organizations to visually record the demographic composition, labor patterns, spatial locations, and income levels of immigrant groups.

Entries

The New Yorker: Mapping the Journeys of Syria’s Artists

November 11, 2019

The New Yorker featured an article about Syrian disbursement across the Middle east and Europe. The project tracks several Syrians, including a poet and a… Read more

On Venezuelan Migration: Sebatián Llovera’s Non-Linear Trajectories

October 28, 2019

by Elvira Blanco By mid-2019, the number of Venezuelans to migrate since the beginning of the Chavista regime in 1999 has reached four million. The… Read more

Mapping Migrant Journeys

July 21, 2016

– by Sumita Chakravarty There is a kind of matter-of-factness in the voices we hear in Bouchra Khalili’s The Mapping Journey Project, a series of… Read more

Maps Documenting the Movement of People

Internal Migrants Worldwide

Refugees: Where They Go

7 Facts About World Migration

U.S. Immigrant Population by Metropolitan Area

Net Migration Between California and Other States, 1955-1960 and 1995-2000

Map of Immigrants and Emigrants Around the World

An Interactive Visualization of Migration Flows

Most Common Country of Origin of Legal Immigrants

Video – Watch 2,600 Years of Cultural History in 5 Minutes

World Migration Map (2022)

MapLab: How to Track American Migration (2021)

Immigrant and Emigrant Populations by Country of Origin and Destination (2020)

Total Immigrant and Emigrant Populations by Country (2020)

Net Number of Migrants by Country, 1950-2020 (by Five-Year Intervals)

Refugee and Asylum Seeker Populations by Country of Origin and Destination, 2000-2020

Largest Refugee and Asylum Seeker Populations by Country of Destination, 1960-2020

Asylum Recognition Rates in the EU/EFTA by Country, 2008-2017

Origins of Mexican Migrants to the United States by Mexican State of Residence, Number, and Share, 2004-2015

US Country Migration Patterns (2022)

Historical Maps

Map of the Shifting of the Continents – Pangaea, Laurasia, Gondwanaland

The Age of Discovery, 1340-1600

From Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1911

Rare Map of the World, 1635

From Ephraim Pagitt’s Christianographie

1772 Global Colonized Territories

From The Public Schools Historical Atlas by C. Colbeck, 1905

Map of when the U.S. was Mexico, 1837

Colonial Possessions and Commercial Highways, 1910

From Cambridge Modern History Atlas, 1912

Interactive Human Migration Map (2022)

How Did Human Civilization Spread? | Habitat Earth

Political Maps

Walled World: How Walls are Springing Up to Divide Populations Everywhere

Walls of the World

Atlas des migrants en Europe. Géographie critique des politiques migratoires européenne,” Armand Colin. (Nicolas Lambert / MigrEurop)