By Michelle Mittelstadt Though President Donald Trump still is far from getting his much-desired border wall, his administration took sweeping new action in 2018 to slow legal immigration, make life...
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By Michelle Mittelstadt Though President Donald Trump still is far from getting his much-desired border wall, his administration took sweeping new action in 2018 to slow legal immigration, make life...
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By Michelle Mittelstadt Hardline policies in the United States and Australia toward migrants and asylum seekers in 2018 hit turbulence when their effects on the most vulnerable—young...
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By Lauren Shaw With policymakers under growing public pressure to manage unwanted migration, questions of how, when, and under what conditions unauthorized immigrants, rejected asylum seekers, and...
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Report: Amid Extraordinary Pressure on Refugee Resettlement Program, Time Is Ripe to Rethink Ways to Improve Refugee Integration WASHINGTON – The U.S. refugee resettlement program is facing an...
DR Congo + 3 more
By Sara Staedicke Despite the major focus by media and publics on a handful of refugee crises around the world—the Syrian, Afghan, and Venezuelan ones among them, and recently Yemen—displacement...
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By Batul Sadliwala and Alex de Waal The synopsis taught in Irish schools of the demographic impact of the Great Hunger that devastated Ireland from 1845-52 is as follows: 1 million dead, 2 million...
Uganda + 2 more
By Tessa Coggio Although the movement of asylum seekers and refugees to the industrialized world captures much attention, the reality is that 85 percent are hosted in developing countries—which are...
By Susan Fratzke and Hanne Beirens While a debate rages in Europe over the appropriate way to manage borders and grant access to asylum, there is one policy priority that has continued to generate...
The practice of returning failed asylum seekers and other migrants to their countries of origin, often against their will, is one of the most contentious in migration policy, and a common point of...
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WASHINGTON — Returning migrants who do not qualify for residence or asylum to their countries of origin represents one of the most contested areas of migration policy around the world. The United...
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Faced with the resurgence of all too familiar migration-management challenges, the European Union has a habit of returning to a familiar set of policy proposals. European policymakers have again...
El Salvador + 4 more
By Cecilia Menjívar and Andrea Gómez Cervantes Migration from El Salvador is shaped by a history of civil unrest, external interventions, and deeply rooted social inequalities. Home to roughly 6.4...
Greece + 6 more
By Katie Kuschminder In 2015, faced with a mounting humanitarian crisis on its borders, the European Union introduced a plan to relocate some asylum seekers from overburdened Greece and Italy to...
Venezuela + 4 more
By Luisa Feline Freier and Nicolas Parent It is increasingly evident that the Venezuelan exodus that began in 2014 is now the fastest-escalating displacement of people across borders in Latin...
By Meghan Benton and Paul Diegert Across Western Europe, governments have stepped up their investments in programs that aim to help recently arrived refugees find work and settle into their new...
European leaders should de-escalate crisis around migration, says MPI Europe report BRUSSELS – The European Union needs to boost its institutional capacity to predict and handle future volatility in...
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By Jeffrey Hallock, Ariel G. Ruiz Soto, and Michael Fix Over the past decade, the profile of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border has gradually—yet dramatically—shifted. Starting around 2014,...
European asylum systems faced a number of sharp challenges as more than 1 million asylum seekers and migrants traveled to Europe during the 2015-16 crisis. Many new arrivals moved onward to other EU...
Children who arrive in Europe as immigrants or who have immigrant parents face a variety of barriers to success in European school systems. Some may not speak the language of instruction fluently or...
By Rocío Naranjo Sandalio In the wake of the 2015-16 European migrant and refugee crisis, mental health has emerged as a critical issue—not only for the well-being of asylum seekers who may have...