Researchers from the 'Elza Berquó' Population Studies Center (Nepo) launched an interactive online bank with information from the Migration Observatory Thematic Atlas - International Migrations. The database is hosted on the Nepo website and is part of the Migration Observatory project in São Paulo, which has support from the São Paulo State Research Support Foundation (Fapesp).
The creation of the atlas is part of Unicamp's activities linked to the Sérgio Vieira de Mello Chair, an initiative of the UN Agency for Refugees (UNHCR) to promote education, research and academic extension aimed at the population in refugee conditions.
The interactive bank brings data collected in the Migration Observatory Atlas, with a compilation of different sources on data relating to immigrants who arrived in the State of São Paulo in recent years. The atlas and interactive bank facilitate access to this data, exploring the potential of data from each source.
Among the databases consulted to prepare the Atlas are the 2010 Brazilian Demographic Census, from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the 2017 Basic Education Census, from the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (Inep), and the Annual List of Social Information (RAIS), from the Ministry of Labor from 2016. The information from each database was tabulated by researchers from the Migration Observatory.
The creation of the Interactive Bank of the International Migration Observatory was coordinated by researchers Natália Belmonte Demétrio (Nepo), Joice de Oliveira Santos Domeniconi (Migration Observatory in São Paulo) and geography undergraduate student Luis Felipe Foiadelli. The creation of the database had the support of Unicamp's Executive Board of Integrated Planning (Depi), through professor Marco Aurélio Pinheiro Lima and technicians Vanderlei Braga and Marcelo Albieri.
The information made available in the interactive bank ends up focusing on municipalities, presenting a profile of immigrants specified in each region. "We hope that this information can be translated into subsidies for municipal, state and federal managers to use on the dynamics of migration and the profile of these migrants to implement social policies", assesses Rosana Baeninger, researcher at Nepo and coordinator of the Migration Observatory project.
For Rosana Baeninger, this initiative allows us to reinforce the university's role in dialoging with society's demands. “Although we can explain migrations through processes that occur globally, the challenge arises in local politics. The atlas can provide the manager with data on different types of migration, such as qualified migration, those with lower qualifications, and refugee migration. This is important so that the manager can equip himself with social policies and foresee processes that may occur in the coming years”.
The interactive atlas allows you to work with more up-to-date databases than in the printed version, as it can be updated based on each published database. This way, researchers and managers will be able to monitor migration trends, both for academic and methodological studies, and to support the creation of local public policies.
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