 The World Migration Report is IOM's flagship publication and we certainly draw strength from our operational history. We've worked all over the world in many different settings so we have a lot of information and knowledge on migration processes. But increasingly we're being asked to bring that to an evidence-based policy kind of role and to be able to provide information on world migration globally, what's happening in terms of patterns and processes and trends to be able to inform policy-making deliberations as well as operational deliberations. Part of this involves partnerships. There's certainly strength in IOM's operational capacity in the field but increasingly we're working with some of the world's best migration academics and researchers to ensure that the material that we present is accurate, that it is balanced, that it's rigorous and that it actually takes into account the latest research, the latest empirical evidence. The lead chapter in the thematic part of the World Migration Report is a new take on a perennial issue. It's on migrants' contributions but it's looking at it in the context of this era of disinformation and disruption and what we find in the very latest research and evidence is that there are, especially in social media but in other forms of media as well, voices that are not only ignoring migrants' contributions but they are actually attacking migrants and they're downplaying very significantly the role of migrants in different settings in origin countries and more importantly and more pointedly in destination settings. So this chapter is about recalibrating and bringing back the evidence that we have drawn upon for a very long time in regards to migrants' contributions and how they actually support societies in economic terms, in sociocultural terms and also in civic political terms. A big part of the World Migration Report is explaining migration patterns over a long period of time. So we work with some of the world's leading migration data experts to produce tailored graphs to help explain how migrants move, where they move, the situations that they face, whether that's internal displacement or whether that's cross-border displacement in a way visually through figures and graphs and tables in a summary way to explain very long-term trends. It's been one of the highlights of the World Migration Report and we're pleased to say that we find that people use them in their studies, they use them in presentations and we're also finding that people are using them in terms of fact-checking and media reporting, both in traditional media and social media. So that actually helps us to strengthen and produce visual data images that help to explain the migration patterns and processes that are going on right around the world. We've previously printed every World Migration Report as we do with most IOM publications but this time it's only going to be available digitally through our online website but also through USB cards as well. Now there are two main reasons for that. The first of course is environmental. Not producing a hard copy World Migration Report will help us save one million pieces of paper in producing 4,000 reports. It's a big report and that's really important. We also save in terms of transportation impacts because it is a large report and it is quite hefty to transport around the world. There's also of course cost-saving measures because it's expensive to print and we are able to produce it online at much lower cost.