THEMATIC REPORT 2017 TORTURE AND MIGRATION METHODOLOGY The IRCT member centres participating in the DFI Project identified the topics of sexual and gender-based violence, redress and reparations and migration as the thematic issues they wanted to examine through the prism of their newly established client databases. Based on feedback from the IRCT member centres involved in DFI and the relevance of the data they have collected, centres from five countries were identified to be part of the report on migration. The information in this report is based on anonymised client data that the torture rehabilitation centres recorded in their DFI database, an interview to further explore the context and meaning of the data as well as other related background information. The data included in this report has been collected over a short period of around 2 years. As the data set used in the report is in its infancy, it is necessary to note a number of limitations which impact on the degree of certainty reached by the conclusions in this report. Firstly, the numbers of total clients or of clients with a full dataset that were analysed is low for all five IRCT members in the report. This is in part due to the short period of the project as well as technical issues that members may have experienced when updating new versions of the database. However, it is also due to the nature of the data entry process, whereby a client’s data may be recorded over a number of different interactions with the rehabilitation centre, and it may take some clients longer than others to disclose sensitive information in the course of their treatment. Secondly, there is a degree of discrepancy in the way some of the data categories have been interpreted by the IRCT members. However, where this may have been the case, the IRCT members have either clarified the specific context relevant to the data category, or the data category has not been relied on in the report. The conclusions drawn from the data highlight various issues relating to the experiences and difficulties faced by the 371 individuals whose data has been collected and should not be seen as a claim to being a representative sample of the situation of all victims of torture who have been displaced or have migrated. These experiences merit further examination through research and data analysis in order to better understand the detailed and root causes of the challenges and their geographical applicability and relevance. The information in this report is based on anonymised client data that the torture rehabilitation centres recorded in their DFI database, an interview to further explore the context and meaning of the data as well as other related background information. page 8