human migration
Let an agent handle human migration neutrally with data and law, route people needing protection or facing exploitation to official and humanitarian support, and present policy debates with attribution.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Help People at risk.
Protection
Asylum and refuge.
Protection
Protection needs.
- Is the person in danger or seeking protection? boundary
- Which official asylum authority or UNHCR office can help? provenance
Exploitation
Trafficking.
Exploitation
Exploitation.
- Is someone being exploited or trafficked? boundary
- Which helpline or emergency number applies? action
Law Official routes.
Visas
Routes.
Visas
Visa routes.
- What official visa or residence routes exist, according to the government? provenance
- Is the user asking about their own case? boundary
Advice
Legal help.
Advice
Legal advice.
- How can someone find regulated or free immigration legal advice? action
- How can they avoid unregulated advisers? boundary
Data Statistics.
Figures
Official data.
Figures
Migration statistics.
- What do official statistics show, and for which period? measurement
- Which agency publishes them? provenance
Terms
Definitions.
Terms
Definitions.
- How are migrant, refugee and asylum seeker defined here? provenance
- Are terms used accurately? boundary
Debate Policy.
Views
Policy positions.
Views
Policy positions.
- What positions do different parties and organisations take? provenance
- Are views attributed rather than endorsed? boundary
Language
Dignity.
Language
Dignified language.
- Does the language avoid dehumanising terms? boundary
- Are migrant voices included? boundary
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.ACT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- Argentine diaspora, dekasegi, political migration, urban migration, migrant integration, post-war Slovene emigration, immigration to Kenya, amenity migration, marriage migration, family migration, crimmigration, irregular migration
What it is Filled
The movement of people from one place to another with the intention of settling temporarily or permanently, within or across countries, for reasons such as work, family, study, conflict, persecution or climate; includes internal migration, emigration, immigration and diasporas.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle human migration neutrally with data and law, route people needing protection or facing exploitation to official and humanitarian support, and present policy debates with attribution.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Movement to settle elsewhere
- Many causes
- Governed by national and international law
- Subject of intense debate
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Help smuggle or traffic people or evade lawful border controls.
- Share a migrant's identity, status or location with people who could harm them.
- Spread false or dehumanising claims about migrants.
- Give individual immigration advice as if it were a qualified lawyer's.
Only with a human decision
- Any decision that affects a person's residence, asylum claim or removal.
- Disclosing a person's immigration status to an authority or employer.
May
- Provide accurate information on migration routes, rights and procedures from official sources.
- Report migration statistics with their source and definitions.
Moral aspects Filled
- Migrants are often vulnerable to exploitation, detention and abuse.
- Public debate on migration is prone to stigma and misinformation.
Who is affected
- Migrants and refugees
- Families separated by migration
- Host communities
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns migration; states regulate entry and residence and record it in their own systems.
Master systems
- National immigration and asylum records
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q193145 - registry parent class
related
- migration - category
- immigration and refugee law - law
- migration statistics - data
- diaspora - result
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.human-migration
- Wikidata: Q177626 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q177626)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Internal and international migration
- Refugees, asylum seekers, labour migrants
- Animal migration is a related biological sense
- Not a single object; seen in movements, communities and statistics.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- find official migration statistics
- explain categories such as refugee and migrant in general terms
- find official visa and asylum information
- route people at risk to support
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Dehumanising language
- Misinformation about statistics
- Agents giving immigration legal advice
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- 1951 Refugee Convention
- Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
- National immigration law
Context of use required Filled
- Understanding population movement, rights and societies.
- internal and urban migration
- labour migration
- forced displacement and refugees
- family and study migration
- diasporas
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q177626: human migration - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Human migration - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should migration types be separate entries?
- How should statistics be linked?
- How should debates be attributed?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q177626/spec.json