Sessions: The Trump Administration’s Once-Indispensable Man on Immigration
In less than two years as Attorney General, Jeff Sessions oversaw wide-reaching changes to the U.S. immigration system. Even as the zero-tolerance policy, fights with "sanctuary" cities, and DACA...
View ArticleThe Emerging Crisis: Is Famine Returning as a Major Driver of Migration?
Despite long study of famine, there is a remarkable lack of research about the linkages between mass starvation and migration. Among the unanswered questions: Does migration mitigate starvation or...
View ArticleWhen Facts Don’t Matter: How to Communicate More Effectively about...
Emotionally charged and anecdotal narratives about immigrants often seem to drown out arguments made on the basis of robust data and evidence. Why is that? This report explores how new technologies,...
View ArticleThe Future of Migration Policy in a Volatile Political Landscape...
Nativist populism is both symptom and driver of the challenges facing many societies in Europe and the United States. And, as this Transatlantic Council Statement explores, it is reshaping political...
View ArticleTrump Administration’s Unprecedented Actions on Asylum at the Southern Border...
The Trump administration’s latest effort to narrow the ability to apply for asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border hit a legal roadblock within days of implementation, as has been the pattern for much of its...
View ArticleSweden: By Turns Welcoming and Restrictive in its Immigration Policy
Swedish asylum policy has taken a restrictionist turn since the country received a record-breaking number of asylum seekers in 2015 and after electoral gains by the nationalist, anti-immigration Sweden...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2018 – Issue #10: “Silent” Refugee Crises Get Limited International...
Despite the major focus by media and publics on a handful of refugee crises around the world, displacement situations worsened during 2018 in a number of countries that received much less attention,...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2018 – Issue #9: Threat of Hard Brexit Looms as Exit Date Nears
With the United Kingdom’s scheduled March 2019 departure from the European Union around the corner and approval of an exit deal by the UK Parliament in deep disarray, the future for approximately 5...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2018 – Issue #8: A Once-Smooth Path for the Global Compact on...
The world’s first international agreement on migration was approved by 164 countries in December 2018, but not without turbulence. U.S. withdrawal from the nonbinding Global Compact on Safe, Orderly,...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2018 – Issue #7: Asylum Hangover? Governments Seek to Narrow...
Faced with absorbing vast numbers of asylum seekers who headed to Europe during the 2015-16 migration crisis and the ongoing arrival of much smaller, but steady flows of Central Americans at the...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2018 – Issue #6: Intensifying Focus on Migrant Returns Takes a More...
Questions of how, when, and under what conditions migrants and asylum seekers can be returned to their origin countries have featured prominently in international discussions of migration in 2018....
View ArticleTop 10 of 2018 – Issue #5: Pushback to the Resistance: Criminalization of...
As industrialized countries are adopting harder-edge immigration and asylum policies to deal with real and perceived crises, humanitarian actors have sought to blunt the effects of those policies by...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2018 – Issue #4: Children on the Frontlines
Hardline migration and asylum policies in the United States and Australia in 2018 hit turbulence when their effects on the most vulnerable—young children—provoked widespread public revulsion and...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2018 – Issue #3: Shaping a Narrative of "Crisis" at...
The Trump administration took sweeping action in 2018 to slow legal immigration, make life harder for some immigrants already in the United States, rebuff would-be asylum seekers, and reduce refugee...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2018 – Issue #2: Pushing Migration to the Forefront, Populists Make...
2018 proved a banner year for far-right populist movements in Europe and the Americas. They claimed the presidency of Brazil, sparked the collapse of the Belgian government, and—whether in or out of...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2018 – Issue #1: As Venezuelan Crisis Deepens, South America Braces...
With an estimated 3 million people having fled the failing Venezuelan state, and predictions another 2 million could join them in 2019, the capacity of South American neighbors to welcome the arrivals...
View ArticleAn “Informal” Turn in the European Union’s Migrant Returns Policy towards...
The European Union's focus on formal readmission agreements with migrant-origin countries to manage the return of irregular migrants and failed asylum seekers has given way since 2016 to informal...
View ArticlePromising Strategies for Reintegration of Migrants Returning to Mexico and...
Authors of a year-long study of reception and reintegration services in Mexico and the Northern Triangle discuss the findings of their fieldwork, including the differing reintegration needs of...
View ArticleImmigrants from New Origin Countries in the United States
The national origins of new arrivals to the United States are shifting, in ways not always fully appreciated. Recent newcomers are more likely to come from Asia, Central America, and Africa, and less...
View ArticleThe Travel Ban at Two: Rocky Implementation Settles into Deeper Impacts
Two years after the Trump administration’s much-litigated travel ban was created, the policy has demonstrated a significant impact on the admission of foreigners from the banned countries, while also...
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