Report: UN World Youth Report 2013 on youth migration
The United Nations 2013 World Youth Report offers a broad understanding of the situation of young migrants from the perspective of young migrants themselves. The report highlights some of the concerns, challenges and successes experienced by young migrants based on their own lives and told in their own voices. The report focuses largely on the phenomena of international migration which increasingly has a significant impact on the origin, transit and destination countries and communities. The consequences are complex, context-specific and subject to change over time. The Report has been drafted in an interactive manner, allowing you to navigate chapters individually: http://www.unworldyouthreport.org/

There are over 232 million migrants in the world today, and young people account for over 30% of this figure. Drawing on extensive participation by young migrants themselves, the Report provides a comprehensive guide to youth migration, drawing public attention to the complex and diverse experiences faced by young women and men as they leave their home communities and seek to start life again elsewhere.

The Report focuses on the complete cycle of migration, starting with pre-migratory planning, travelling to a destination country (often through transitory countries) and settling in a new society, as well as examining the identities of migrants and their reasons for leaving their home societies. It also assesses the information available to help young migrants, and the experiences of youth whose families have migrated without them, as well as encouraging the involvement of young people in national policy-making in order to improve the lives of young migrants and enhance their participation in their destination societies.