Will 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...
View ArticleAmid Federal Pullback from Labor Standards Enforcement, States Are Using...
WASHINGTON – Systemic wage underpayment, payroll fraud and misclassification of employees as independent contractors to avoid paying workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and payroll taxes are...
View ArticleImmigration Data Matters: MPI and PRB Release Online Guide with Top Data...
WASHINGTON – The Migration Policy Institute and Population Reference Bureau today released an update to their popular online guide, which directs users to the most credible, useful data on immigrants...
View ArticleEU-Turkey deal continues to paper over vast cracks in Europe's asylum...
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s deal with Turkey—signed two years ago this week—may have helped to drastically reduce the numbers of migrants coming to Europe, but a new Migration Policy Institute...
View ArticleTurkey-Style Deals Will Not Solve the Next EU Migration Crisis
The EU-Turkey deal has been credited with helping to end the migration crisis of 2015-16, and after two years in force it has fostered a myth that such deals are cure-alls. They are not, as this MPI...
View ArticleNew Reports Spotlight Innovative Teaching Practices and Models to Support the...
WASHINGTON — More U.S. communities are experiencing “superdiversity” in early education and care settings, as young Dual Language Learners (DLLs) arrive with greater variation in origins,...
View ArticleGet better at sharing expertise or face failure on refugees, new report warns...
BRUSSELS — European countries must adopt a more strategic approach when offering support to one another to resettle refugees if they hope to meet ambitious goals laid out by the European Union, the...
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