To Inform Negotiations Around Adoption of Global Compact for Migration MPI...
WASHINGTON — International migration has entered the mainstream of development thinking, and vice versa, only in recent years. These policy areas are now converging around a common goal—facilitating...
View ArticleAs Afghanistan Seeks to Reintegrate Unprecedented Number of Returnees, New...
WASHINGTON — With as many as 1 million people forcibly returned to Afghanistan in 2016 alone and more than 5.2 million refugees assisted in their return to Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in...
View ArticleLegalization for DREAMers: A Realistic Appraisal of Potential Chain Migration
Amid growing calls for Congress to pass DREAM Act-type legislation, critics are arguing that legalization would spur vast new "chain migration" because DREAMers could eventually sponsor their relatives...
View ArticleLegalization for DREAMers Would Result in Chain Migration of an Average of 1...
WASHINGTON — With Congress facing growing calls to pass DREAM Act-type legislation before the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program expires, critics are arguing that legalization would...
View ArticleLimited results of AU-EU summit demonstrate difficulty of third-country...
BRUSSELS — The failure of last week’s African Union-European Union summit to produce tangible commitments on migration, beyond a long-overdue plan to evacuate thousands of African migrants stranded in...
View ArticleWith Cooperation on Migration Moving Higher on the Foreign Policy Agenda,...
WASHINGTON — In the wake of the migration crisis in Europe, a surge in Central American flows to the United States and movements elsewhere, policymakers are looking for new strategies to better manage...
View ArticleWill DREAMers Crowd U.S.-Born Millennials Out of Jobs?
The debate over the future of DACA participants and the passage of legislation to legalize them and a broader cohort of DREAMers features a number of arguments pro and con. Opposition centers in part...
View ArticleData Show Legalizing DREAMers Would Have Little Effect on Displacing...
WASHINGTON — Amid debate over legalization for unauthorized immigrants who came to the United States as children, concern has been raised that these DREAMers, once legalized, would take jobs away from...
View ArticleTrump Administration Makes Significant Down Payment on Immigration Campaign...
WASHINGTON — On the campaign trail, Donald Trump made immigration the centerpiece of his campaign, promising to build a “big, beautiful wall” across the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, round up 2...
View ArticleFormer INS Commissioner James W. Ziglar Selected as Chairman of MPI Board of...
WASHINGTON — James W. Ziglar, who was Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) during the George W. Bush administration, has been selected as chairman of the Migration Policy...
View ArticleComplex Relationship Between Migration and Development Suggests Narrowly...
WASHINGTON — As policymakers in Europe and other high-income countries search for ways to reduce unmanaged migration, they are paying new attention to addressing the drivers of migration, in particular...
View ArticleAs Trump Administration Nears First Anniversary on Jan. 20, MPI Issues...
WASHINGTON – With President Trump reaching his one-year anniversary in office on January 20, the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) in a pair of new reports analyzes the changes his administration has...
View ArticleThe Trump Immigration Plan: A Lopsided Proposal
The White House immigration plan offered as a solution to resolve the fate of DREAMers seeks legal immigration cuts unlike any seen since 1924. In addition to a decrease of up to 40 percent in...
View ArticleBorderline Irrelevant: Why Reforming the Dublin Regulation Misses the Point
European policymakers are fixated on reform of the Dublin Regulation, the contentious rules that carve up responsibility for asylum claims between EU states. They see it not only as a long-term...
View ArticleEuropean countries are pinning hopes on civic education to integrate young...
BRUSSELS — Amid neighbourhood ethnic tensions and terrorist attacks in a number of major European cities, governments across Europe have renewed their interest in civic education programmes to foster a...
View ArticleAmid sizeable increases in migrant-background students, New MPI Europe report...
BRUSSELS — With predictions that more than one-quarter of the school-aged population in Europe will have a migrant background by the early 2020s, school systems designed for ‘traditional’ learners are...
View ArticleNeed Key Stats about Immigration and Immigrants in the United States? MPI...
WASHINGTON —The Migration Policy Institute’s online journal, the Migration Information Source, today published its annual compilation of some of the most frequently sought-after statistics on...
View ArticleThe Diversity Visa Program Holds Lessons for Future Legal Immigration Reform
On paper, the Diversity Visa Program is not set up to bring in the highly skilled; applicants need only a high school diploma (or equivalent) or two years of mid-level work experience. Yet as this...
View ArticleA Path to Citizenship for 1.8 Million DREAMERs? Despite Talk, No Proposal...
Even as the 1.8 million number swirls in the discussion of how many DREAMers would be placed on a path to citizenship, proposals debated in the Senate in February 2018 would have resulted in the...
View ArticleAmid Growing Diversity of U.S. Young Child Population, Early Childhood...
WASHINGTON — Diversity is on the rise across the United States, where young children growing up with one or more parents speaking a language other than English at home now make up nearly one-third of...
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