Last October 2025, the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) focused its social media campaign on the Drivers of Migration, highlighting that migration is often not a free choice but a consequence of structural inequalities, lack of decent work, and limited livelihood opportunities.  Governments profit from remittances while migrants face exploitation, high recruitment fees, and harsh judgment when they return home. Migration has become a systemic response to weak economies, and migrants are paying the highest cost. Migration has become a systemic response to weak economies, and migrants are paying the highest cost.

In response, APMM and its partners developed the GCM Indicators by Migrants and Refugees – tools built from the ground up through consultations with migrants and refugees themselves. Organized into seven clusters and driven by three core goals, and keep migrants at the center of decisions that shape their lives. Their three main goals are to measure how governments uphold migrant and refugee rights, to guide concrete policy recommendations, and to ensure migrants play a meaningful role in shaping the GCM.

Read the full article on the APMM website.