Nuevo informe examina las causas de la migración desde Guatemala y ofrece una...
WASHINGTON — Durante la última década, la migración irregular de Guatemala a los Estados Unidos ha aumentado drasticamente. Gran parte de la migración proviene del Altiplano Occidental, una región que...
View ArticleFor Its Immigration Enforcement Policy to Be Sustainable, Australia Must...
WASHINGTON — In recent decades, cooperation with other countries has become a central part of Australia’s immigration enforcement strategy. Seeking to deter irregular maritime migration, the Australian...
View ArticleAs Health-Care Sector Seeks to Fill Pressing Labor Needs, New MPI Brief...
WASHINGTON — The United States is facing a record 11.3 million job vacancies, with labor shortages in the health-care sector growing more acute as pandemic-imposed pressures on doctors, nurses and...
View ArticleDigital Health Credentials Hold Promise for Global Mobility to Safely Return...
WASHINGTON — While international movements of all types continue to recover from the pandemic-induced near-freeze experienced in 2020, governments have yet to fully tap the potential of digital health...
View ArticleReport Examines Ways in Which Destination Countries Can Engage Their...
WASHINGTON — While the significant role that diasporas play in contributing to development in their countries of origin or ancestry is now a well-accepted part of migration and development analysis,...
View ArticleSustaining Solidarity Toward Refugees Requires Attention to Public Anxieties,...
WASHINGTON — Refugees and asylum seekers are alternately depicted as heroes or security threats, victims or exceptional workers, exemplary neighbors or opportunists—sometimes all at once. Yet despite...
View ArticleAs Rising Vaccination Rates Help Countries Re-Open Borders, Restrictions...
GENEVA and WASHINGTON — As COVID-19-related travel restrictions—more than 100,000 as of the end of 2021—continue to inhibit cross-border mobility, a new report identifies the trends, challenges and...
View ArticleNew Research Delves into Successes, Challenges for Two-Generation Programs...
WASHINGTON — Two-generation programs that work both with parents and children in immigrant-led households hold the potential to uplift whole families and break the cycle of intergenerational poverty,...
View ArticleThree MPI Leaders to Receive Prestigious Ellis Island Medals of Honor
WASHINGTON — In recognition of their accomplishments in the immigration policymaking field and their exemplary service to society, Migration Policy Institute (MPI) Directors Doris Meissner and Margie...
View ArticleHigh-Quality Testing Data Is Essential to Ensure Equitable Resource...
WASHINGTON — Statewide testing to measure the academic performance of students was paused during the first, disrupted year of the COVID-19 pandemic as schooling moved online, and assessments came back...
View ArticleCommon Ground Needed on Clear, Equitable Pandemic Travel Measures
NEW YORK – Two years after the global pandemic brought cross-border mobility to a stand-still, it is time for the international community to agree on pandemic travel measures that are clear, equitable,...
View ArticleSurmounting information sharing gaps is key to realising the promise of...
BRUSSELS — European policymakers are increasingly investing in assisted voluntary return and reintegration (AVRR) programmes to incentivise the departure of irregular migrants and denied asylum seekers...
View ArticleScaling Up Refugee Resettlement and Other Protection Pathways for Central...
WASHINGTON — The exodus of hundreds of thousands of Central Americans from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras since 2014 has changed the face of migration throughout the region, with many seeking...
View ArticleAmpliar el reasentamiento y otras vías de protección para personas refugiadas...
WASHINGTON — El éxodo de cientos de miles de personas centroamericanas de El Salvador, Guatemala y Honduras desde 2014 ha cambiado el rostro de la migración en toda la región. Muchas personas buscan...
View ArticleSe requiere urgentemente un enfoque regional, integral y estratégico para...
El Grupo de Trabajo de Centro y Norteamérica sobre Migración, del cual el Migration Policy Institute (MPI) es socio, emitió recientemente recomendaciones importantes para subsanar las principales...
View ArticleComprehensive, Strategic Regional Approach Is Urgently Needed to Address...
The high-level North and Central American Task Force on Migration, of which the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) is a partner, recently issued important recommendations for filling key governance gaps...
View ArticleWhat Has Been the Impact of the Pandemic on Immigrant Communities and U.S....
WASHINGTON — The COVID-19 pandemic both revealed the ways in which the lives of the U.S. born and immigrants are interconnected and exposed the country’s social and economic divides. As the health...
View ArticleAlternativas a la migración irregular: Ampliación de los programas de trabajo...
WASHINGTON — El éxodo de cientos de miles de personas del norte de Centroamérica desde 2014 en medio de una situación de profunda inseguridad económica, violencia, desastres naturales y corrupción...
View ArticleTemporary Worker Programs in Canada, Costa Rica and Mexico Offer Promising...
WASHINGTON — The exodus of hundreds of thousands of people from northern Central America since 2014 amid deep economic insecurity, violence, natural disasters and corruption represents a long-term...
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