The Migration Crisis Is Over: Long Live the Migration Crisis
While the chaos of 2015 has abated, the conditions that fuelled huge spontaneous flows of asylum seekers and migrants to Europe have not changed. Europe faces a fundamental governance test that is...
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WASHINGTON — As the immediate pressures of the migration and refugee crisis have begun to abate in Europe, policymakers have refocused on two goals: anticipating and preventing the next crisis and...
View ArticleADB-MPI Series on Mobility of Highly Skilled in ASEAN Concludes with Report...
WASHINGTON — Beginning in 2005, Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) began signing agreements to speed the mutual recognition of professional and academic qualifications...
View ArticleThe Dutch Elections: How to Lose and Still Shape the Direction of a...
The failure of Geert Wilders’ right-wing, anti-Islam Freedom Party (PVV) to become the top vote-getter in the Dutch parliamentary elections is being hailed as proof of the limits of anti-Muslim...
View ArticleA Game of Chess, Not Tennis: Unraveling the Rights and Status of “Brexpats”
As the process of removing the United Kingdom from the European Union gets underway, the rights of the 1.2 million UK citizens or “Brexpats” who have chosen to live in one of the 27 other EU countries...
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MPI Announces Selection of Policy Scholar and Think Tank Executive Andrew...
WASHINGTON — Andrew Selee, executive vice president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and senior advisor to its Mexico Institute, has been selected as the Migration Policy...
View ArticleIncoming MPI President Andrew Selee Awarded Prestigious Research Fellowship...
WASHINGTON — Andrew Selee, who will become president of the Migration Policy Institute in August, today was named one of 35 recipients of the 2017 Andrew Carnegie fellowships, which support significant...
View ArticleAs 100-Day Trump Administration Milestone Approaches, MPI Analyzes Major...
WASHINGTON — As the Trump administration reaches the 100-day mark on April 29, the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) has published a fact sheet that reviews major immigration actions taken by the...
View ArticleNew MPI Reports Demonstrate Changed Reality at U.S.-Mexico Border: Sharp...
WASHINGTON — Drawing from official survey data of Mexicans deported from the United States and previously unpublished U.S. Border Patrol data measuring the effectiveness of its removal strategies, the...
View ArticleAmid Greater Need to Prove Effectiveness of Refugee Resettlement Programs,...
BRUSSELS — In response to record levels of displacement, more governments around the world are resettling refugees and doing so in greater numbers. Amid growing scepticism toward immigration, and...
View ArticleMPI Reveals Striking Finding: Nearly Half of Immigrant Adults Arriving in...
Rising Migration from Asia Helps Fuel This New Brain GainWASHINGTON — Immigrant adults who have come to the United States since 2011 are far more likely to have a college degree than earlier groups of...
View ArticleMPI Report Examines Integration of Top Refugee Groups, Finding Little...
WASHINGTON — Some researchers have posited a “lottery effect,” whereby the integration outcomes of refugees vary based on the differing employment opportunities, housing cost and benefits available in...
View ArticleImmigrants and the New Brain Gain: Ways to Leverage Rising Educational...
A recent MPI study reveals that 48 percent of recent immigrants to the United States were college graduates, a sharp increase over earlier periods. How can the United States better leverage this brain...
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Former Head of HHS Administration for Children and Families Mark Greenberg...
WASHINGTON — Mark H. Greenberg, who led the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families (ACF) for three years and served in other high-ranking roles in the...
View ArticleAs Burqa Bans Highlight Conflicts over Values in Europe, New MPI Europe...
BRUSSELS — The rapid arrival in 2015–2016 of historic numbers of newcomers to Europe, a significant share of whom are Muslim, has once again placed under the microscope the roles of religion, culture...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court’s Opinion on the Revised Trump Executive Order: What Does...
Legal analysis of the Supreme Court’s opinion allowing aspects of a controversial Trump administration executive order to take effect has largely focused on the travel ban on certain nationals from six...
View ArticleThe Good, the Bad, and the Fuzzy: Brexit Negotiating Stance towards Mobile EU...
Initial reaction to the British government's offer regarding the post-Brexit treatment of EU nationals resident in the United Kingdom was sharply divergent, ranging from constructive to catastrophic....
View ArticleMPI Estimates As Many As 1.5 Million DREAMers Could Get Legal Permanent...
WASHINGTON — Bipartisan Senate legislation unveiled today could, if enacted, grant legal permanent residence to as many as 1.5 million unauthorized immigrants brought to the United States as children,...
View ArticleMPI Report: Amid Spike in Apprehension of Unaccompanied Child Migrants,...
WASHINGTON — The sharp increase in apprehensions of unaccompanied children in Mexico and the violent conditions from which many are fleeing have raised concerns about how well equipped Mexican...
View ArticleThe RAISE Act: Dramatic Change to Family Immigration, Less So for the...
The RAISE Act endorsed by President Trump would have dramatic effects on family-based immigration to the United States, with disproportionate effects for immigrants from several countries in...
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