The Field of Migration Studies Loses a Giant: Graeme Hugo
In a personal tribute published in the Migration Information Source, MPI's online journal, MPI President Emeritus Demetrios G. Papademetriou reflects on the life and career of Graeme Hugo, a...
View ArticleDoes Immigrant Skills Gap Exist in U.S.? Report Finds Immigrants Score Below...
WASHINGTON — Immigrant adults in the United States lag their native-born peers in literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills, with resulting effects on their income, employment, education and...
View ArticleIncreased cooperation on immigrant integration before departure would benefit...
Whilst the European Union and member states have invested significant resources to provide integration services such as language instruction to migration candidates at the earliest stage in the...
View ArticleSome of Most Sought-After Current and Historical U.S. Immigration Statistics...
WASHINGTON — The Migration Policy Institute’s (MPI) online journal, the Migration Information Source, has published its annual compilation of some of the most frequently sought-after current and...
View ArticleNew MPI Report Profiles the Nation’s Most Diverse Metro Area, with Houston...
WASHINGTON — Immigration has contributed significantly to the growth and diversity of the Houston metropolitan area, which is the nation’s most diverse and rapidly expanding major U.S. metro area,...
View ArticleAs Health Care Demand in North and Central America Grows, Supply and Quality...
WASHINGTON – With aging populations and rising rates of chronic diseases, governments in North and Central America are giving new policy focus to ways to increase both the quantity of nurses and...
View ArticleAs EU assesses balance of responsibilities with respect to asylum claims, new...
BRUSSELS — The effective functioning of the European Union’s Common European Asylum System (CEAS) is under increased scrutiny, as the rising number of asylum seekers in Europe has thrown existing...
View ArticleMPI’s Transatlantic Council on Migration Launches Series of Reports Examining...
First Report Examines Increasing Mismatch between Frameworks that Define the Existing Protection Regime and Contemporary Patterns of Displacement
View ArticleThe Potential and Pitfalls of Extraterritorial Processing of Asylum Claims
Much attention has focused recently on the possibility of the European Union establishing processing centers in North Africa or elsewhere to manage asylum seekers and migrants traveling to Europe,...
View ArticleAs U.S. Young Child Population Is Increasingly Diverse, Early Childhood Field...
WASHINGTON – With one in four of the nation’s 23 million children under age 6 born to immigrant parents, the need to build a culturally and linguistically competent workforce in the early childhood...
View ArticleNew MPI Transatlantic Council on Migration Report Examines Turkey’s Response...
WASHINGTON – Turkey is currently host to the largest community of displaced Syrians in the region. Adding to the challenge, the rising refugee inflows have occurred even as Turkey was in the midst of...
View ArticleFrom concept to reality: New MPI Europe report finds little consensus among...
BRUSSELS — Amidst a backdrop of growing diversity, the concept of ‘mainstreaming’ immigrant integration has proven trendy in European policy circles in recent years even it has been invoked for...
View ArticleDespite Increasingly Diverse Origins, Linguistic Backgrounds and Education...
WASHINGTON — Using previously non-public refugee admissions data from the State Department, a new Migration Policy Institute (MPI) analysis finds that despite the fact that refugees to the United...
View ArticleFederal-Local Cooperation on Immigration Enforcement Frayed; Chance for...
Long-simmering tensions over federal-local cooperation in immigration enforcement were exposed in the days after the shooting death of a young woman in San Francisco by an unauthorized immigrant who...
View ArticleMPI: Revisions to DHS Immigration Enforcement Priorities Could Shield Vast...
Changes to the immigration enforcement system ordered by President Obama could, if strictly implemented, offer a degree of protection from deportation to 87 percent of the nation’s estimated 11 million...
View ArticleMPI: As DACA’s Third Anniversary Nears, Vast Majority of Beneficiaries...
WASHINGTON – The vast majority of unauthorized immigrants who received a temporary grant of relief from deportation as well as work authorization under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)...
View ArticleU.S. Unauthorized Populations from Asia, Central America and Africa Have...
Guatemalans, Indians and Koreans among Top 5 Fastest-Growing Populations since 2000WASHINGTON – While Mexicans still represent the majority of unauthorized immigrants in the United States, the fastest...
View ArticleRepealing Birthright Citizenship: The Unintended Consequences
In this commentary, MPI President Michael Fix discusses how the repeal of birthright citizenship in the United States would create a self-perpetuating underclass that would be excluded from social...
View ArticleMPI Launches Research Series Examining Effects of Discrimination on...
WASHINGTON — Research on the children of immigrants shows that the majority of them perceive discrimination, and that they more easily read signs of personal than institutional discrimination....
View ArticleAs Central American Migration Has Risen, Mexico’s New Enforcement Role Is...
WASHINGTON – The United States and Mexico have apprehended nearly 1 million Salvadoran, Guatemalan and Honduran migrants since 2010, deporting more than 800,000 of them, including more than 40,000...
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