MPI Report: U.S. Agricultural Workforce Being Reshaped by Shifting Migration...
WASHINGTON — Shifting migration patterns and labor strategies are reshaping the overwhelmingly foreign-born U.S. agricultural workforce, with a drop in the share of unauthorized workers and increased...
View ArticleWith DACA’s Future in the Balance, New MPI Brief Finds Vast Majority of Those...
WASHINGTON — Three-quarters of the unauthorized immigrants over age 16 eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program were in the labor force, with 24 percent juggling both a...
View ArticleJuan Osuna: A Tribute to an Indispensable Person
In this personal tribute, MPI Senior Fellow Doris Meissner honors Juan Osuna, who died in August 2017 after his recent retirement as Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the...
View ArticleAll Eyes Turn to Congress, Following Trump Decision to Terminate DACA Program
By winding down DACA over six months, President Trump may have addressed a short-term political dilemma. But this action ensures debate will rage on in search of a lasting solution, as many in Congress...
View ArticleAs European Policymakers Debate Opening New Channels of Entry to Address...
BRUSSELS — Amid the rush for solutions to Europe’s migration crisis, politicians and advocates alike have shown interest in opening additional legal channels of entry to improve the management of...
View ArticlePrivate Sponsorship Could Prove an Effective Tool for Engaging Communities...
BRUSSELS — In the aftermath of the 2015 and 2016 migration crisis, governments and civil-society organisations across Europe are seeking new tools to ensure refugees are able to access protection in a...
View ArticleWhy Hide the Facts About Refugee Costs and Benefits?
No enterprise in the United States could survive if it only counted the costs of doing business and ignored the benefits side of the ledger. But that is exactly how some Trump administration officials...
View ArticleThe U.S. Falls Behind as Others Take on New Leadership Amid Record...
The Trump administration’s decision to set the refugee ceiling at 45,000 for fiscal 2018 marks the lowest level since the refugee resettlement program was created in 1980. At a time of record...
View ArticleWith Growing Numbers of Young Dual Language Learners, New MPI Profiles...
WASHINGTON — Children under age 8 with at least one parent who speaks a language other than English at home—known as Dual Language Learners (DLLs)—represent 32 percent of the U.S. young child...
View ArticleMPI Estimates the Number of DREAMers Potentially Eligible to Benefit Under...
WASHINGTON — With the clock tolling towards the phaseout of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program for the approximately 690,000 recipients who now have work authorization and...
View ArticleAs More School Districts Receive Late-Arriving Immigrant and Refugee...
WASHINGTON — Foreign-born students who arrive in the United States during their secondary school years—whether as refugees, unaccompanied minors or via more typical immigration pathways—face daunting...
View ArticleMany Brexpats living in EU will face challenges over legal status and access...
BRUSSELS — As negotiators debate the post-Brexit futures of approximately 3 million European Union nationals living in the United Kingdom and 1 million British citizens resident on the continent,...
View ArticleDACA Holders Set to Begin Losing Protections in Growing Numbers Next March,...
Fact Sheet Also Offers Educational and Workforce Profile of Current DACA RecipientsWASHINGTON — With the phaseout of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program moving into full force...
View ArticleEuropean Partnership Deals with North African Countries Can Bear More Fruit...
WASHINGTON — Amid a dramatic spike in the arrival on European shores of asylum seekers and migrants in 2015 and 2016, European policymakers set their sights on building or reinvigorating partnerships...
View ArticleTo 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...
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