MPI Report Examines Use of External Processing as Complement to Territorial...
WASHINGTON — Even as Australia and the United Kingdom have adopted policies to offshore asylum processing to countries such as Papua New Guinea and Rwanda in hopes of deterring spontaneous arrivals,...
View ArticleAmid Major U.S. Labor Market Needs, the Biden Administration Could Facilitate...
WASHINGTON — With the United States recording more than 10 million job openings each month since mid-2021 and the unemployment rate hitting a 54-year low in January, the U.S. economy is hungry for more...
View ArticleNew Research Analyzes Composition of Poor Households in the U.S. and...
WASHINGTON — Millions of people across much of the United States this week began confronting cuts in their food stamp allotments, with the March 1 end of pandemic-era emergency hunger relief that had...
View ArticleCaribbean Intra-Regional Migration Movements Are Significant and...
WASHINGTON — Caribbean migration is often discussed in the context of significant out-migration to the United States, Canada and Europe, with movement within and to the region less examined. Yet as...
View ArticleGet Useful Immigration Statistics in an Easy-to-Access Resource
WASHINGTON — The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) today published the latest version of its ever-popular resource, Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States,...
View ArticleWhat Role Should Immigration and Immigrant Integration Fill in Addressing...
WASHINGTON, DC — As demographic pressures, technological advances, economic shifts and pandemic disruptions rapidly reshape labor markets in the United States and globally, the resulting workforce...
View ArticleEquitable Access to Career and Technical Education Elective Courses Can Help...
WASHINGTON, DC — Once considered a less-rigorous high school pathway, career and technical education (CTE) has experienced a renaissance since the 1990s, as more high-skilled and white-collar...
View ArticleNew Report Offers Recommendations to Improve Access to Mental and Medical...
Report finds Unaccompanied Children Face Significant Barriers to Care
View ArticleDisplaced Ukrainians find work quickly in EU countries — but barriers to...
MPI Europe analysis finds that displaced Ukrainians have made good progress entering EU labor markets since Russia’s invasion, but they face a range of challenges, including language barriers and...
View ArticleReport Documents Steep U.S. Declines in Poverty Among Immigrants and Their...
WASHINGTON, DC — The United States has witnessed a historic decline in poverty in recent years. Poverty rates fell sharply during the decade following the end of the 2007–09 recession and preceding the...
View ArticlePaíses de América Latina y el Caribe que acogen a venezolanos desplazados...
WASHINGTON — Más de la mitad, y hasta dos tercios, de los aproximadamente 6,4 millones de venezolanos desplazados que se han establecido en América Latina y el Caribe desde 2016 han obtenido estatus...
View ArticleLatin American and Caribbean Countries Hosting Displaced Venezuelans...
WASHINGTON — More than half, and as many as two-thirds, of the estimated 6.4 million displaced Venezuelans who have settled in Latin America and the Caribbean since 2016 have been granted legal status...
View ArticleBetter Insight into Complex, At-Times Contradictory Migration Narratives in...
WASHINGTON, DC — A set of interconnected, yet sometimes contradictory, narratives has developed to explain what drives migration from, through and back to northern Central America, with effects on how...
View ArticleMPI Europe director comments on EU migration deal agreed by European interior...
BRUSSELS — Following agreement by European interior ministers on a plan to reform EU migration policy, Migration Policy Institute Europe Director Hanne Beirens offered the following statement today:
View ArticleNew Report Highlights Ways to Meaningfully Engage Refugees in Protection...
WASHINGTON, DC — Despite the growing focus on engaging refugees to ensure their unique knowledge and perspectives are considered as pressing protection and displacement challenges are addressed, there...
View ArticleNew MPI Article Traces Upswing in U.S. Refugee Resettlement after Years of...
WASHINGTON, DC — After recent years in which the number of refugees resettled in the United States hit historical lows, U.S. refugee resettlement is slowly increasing. In the first eight months of...
View ArticleConnecting Reintegration Projects and Development Goals Improves...
WASHINGTON, DC — While European assisted voluntary return and reintegration (AVRR) programs are meant to provide a safer and more dignified way for migrants to return to their countries of origin,...
View ArticleEnhancing refugee resettlement capacity requires improved coordination among...
BRUSSELS — Refugee resettlement programs globally are facing tough times. Resettlement numbers were dramatically cut during the COVID-19 pandemic, with just 34,400 refugee admissions in 2020 as...
View ArticleMPI Report Offers Solutions to Repair a U.S. Immigration Court System in Crisis
WASHINGTON — The U.S. immigration courts—and the federal immigration enforcement system they support—are facing an unprecedented crisis. With a backlog of nearly 2 million cases, more than 700,000 of...
View ArticleSchool Districts’ Innovative Use of Pandemic Relief Funds to Support English...
WASHINGTON, DC — While the COVID-19 pandemic took a harsh toll on all students in U.S. elementary and secondary classrooms, it had a disproportionate impact on the nation’s 5 million English Learners...
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