Considering how asylum seekers form and act on preferences for certain...
BRUSSELS – The latest idea for distributing asylum seekers around the European Union through a system of ‘regional disembarkation platforms’ may have a better chance of success if policymakers...
View ArticleThrough the Back Door: Remaking the Immigration System via the Expected...
A Trump administration “public-charge” rule expected to be unveiled soon could create the potential to significantly reshape family-based legal immigration to the United States—and reduce arrivals from...
View ArticleMPI Analysis Finds Trump Administration Could Significantly Reshape Future...
Effects Would Fall Most Heavily on Asian, Hispanic and African Immigrants
View ArticleNew Fact Sheets Examine Immigrant & English Learner Student Demographics...
WASHINGTON — As states shape and implement policies that hold K-12 schools and districts accountable for meeting federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) mandates regarding English Learners (ELs), it...
View ArticleGlobal Compact for Migration’s Focus on Skills Partnerships to Train...
WASHINGTON — As policymakers increasingly recognize that expanded legal migration pathways should be a component of their migration-management strategies, they are revisiting the role that partnerships...
View ArticleReport: Immigrants Play Outsize Role in Houston Area’s Workforce Yet Earn...
HOUSTON – As the Houston metro area experienced the third largest job growth in the United States between 2016 and 2017, a new Migration Policy Institute (MPI) report out today sketches the significant...
View ArticlePeople Leave Footprints: Millions More Unauthorized Immigrants Cannot Be...
In a commentary, MPI and Penn State researchers explain why an academic article suggesting the unauthorized population is significantly higher than previously estimated derives from seriously flawed...
View ArticleMPI: Millions More Unauthorized Immigrants Cannot Be ‘Hidden’ in Data...
WASHINGTON – Migration Policy Institute and Penn State researchers today took issue with a newly published academic exercise that suggests the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population is at least several...
View ArticleAmid Rising Asylum Claims, Growing Backlogs & Harsh Policy Responses, MPI...
WASHINGTON – Faced with a surge in asylum claims, huge backlogs and the resulting likelihood of misuse of the asylum system, the Trump administration has acted to deter new arrivals and narrow access...
View ArticleReducing pain of job market revolution requires joint action by migration and...
BRUSSELS — Millions of workers, including many migrants, will need help to cope with rapid shifts in the job market brought by automation and other transformations. Efforts to integrate immigrants...
View ArticleTeaching refugees IT skills could be a win-win for integration and the job...
BRUSSELS — Germany has an IT skills shortage which leaves possibly tens of thousands of jobs unfilled every year, but a potential solution has emerged—teaching refugees how to code. A handful of...
View Article‘Nudge’ approach could offer a quick and cost-effective way to promote social...
BRUSSELS — Virtual reality, simple writing exercises and football games between mixed teams could all help migrants to settle into new societies and foster connections among diverse groups, according...
View ArticleAs Governments Place More Emphasis on Removing Unwanted Migrants, Need for...
WASHINGTON — Returning migrants who do not qualify for residence or asylum to their countries of origin represents one of the most contested areas of migration policy around the world. The United...
View ArticleThree Things the European Union Can Do to Support Private Sponsorship for...
Amid disagreement over the appropriate way to manage European borders and grant access to asylum, there is one policy priority that has support across (most) Member States and the institutions of the...
View ArticleMPI Proposes New Adult Education Model to Support Integration Success for...
WASHINGTON — Amid a severe capacity shortage in programs that teach adults English and a federal refocusing of the adult education system towards employment outcomes and post-secondary success,...
View ArticleAsylum Reform, Not Troops, Is the Solution to Current Border Reality
Asylum reform, not the "shock-and-awe" deployment of thousands of troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to deal with the migrant caravan, represents the real path to addressing the current realities of...
View ArticleSetting Immigration Policy in an Era of Nativist Populism – Report Offers...
WASHINGTON — A string of successes for populists since 2015 has upended the status quo in liberal democracies around the world. From the United Kingdom’s Brexit decision and the elections of Donald...
View ArticleFacts Still Matter in Immigration Policy Debates, But Evidence Must Be...
WASHINGTON — At a time when people have more information than ever at their fingertips, it has become easier to ignore, discount or discredit inconvenient facts. Nowhere has this been more apparent...
View ArticleMPI Issues New Profiles of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population at U.S.,...
WASHINGTON – The Migration Policy Institute today released a fact sheet and two data tools that provide rich detail on unauthorized immigrants in the United States, with statistics on everything from...
View ArticleMPI’s Transatlantic Council Series on Immigration Policymaking in Volatile...
WASHINGTON — In many corners of Europe and the United States, a wave of support for politicians touting populist and nativist platforms has rocked the foundations of mainstream politics. These...
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