Despite Trump Invitation to Stop Taking Refugees, Red and Blue States Alike...
Forty-two governors, Republican and Democrat alike, have affirmed their consent for continued refugee resettlement, bypassing an invitation from the Trump administration to stop accepting refugees....
View ArticleAlly or Exploiter? The Smuggler-Migrant Relationship Is a Complex One
As highly industrialized countries ramp up their border controls, human smugglers are playing a central role in moving migrants through key migration corridors around the world. Despite the illicit...
View ArticleFrequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United...
Interested in answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about immigration and immigrants in the United States? This incredible resource collects in one place top statistics from...
View ArticleJapan’s Labor Migration Reforms: Breaking with the Past?
Japan is hoping to bring in as many as 350,000 medium-skilled foreign workers over five years to fill labor market gaps in its rapidly aging society. Yet does this system of Specified Skilled Workers...
View ArticleInterlocking Set of Trump Administration Policies at the U.S.-Mexico Border...
Through a set of interlocking policies, the Trump administration has walled off the asylum system at the U.S.-Mexico border, guaranteeing that only a miniscule few can successfully gain protection....
View ArticleGreen Cards and Public Charge: Who Could Be Denied Based on Benefits Use?
On this webinar MPI experts will discuss their estimates of the populations that could be deemed ineligible for a green card based on existing benefits use. They also will discuss the broader...
View ArticleImmigrant Women and Girls in the United States
Immigrant women and girls constituted slightly more than half of the 44.7 million immigrants in the United States in 2018. This is higher than the global average, likely because immigrants are more...
View ArticleThe Public-Charge Rule: Broad Impacts, But Few Will Be Denied Green Cards...
While the Trump administration public-charge rule is likely to vastly reshape legal immigration based on its test to assess if a person might ever use public benefits in the future, the universe of...
View ArticleAs Governments Build Advanced Surveillance Systems to Push Borders Out, Will...
As governments seek to push their borders out by amassing ever more data on travelers and migrants, their creation of increasingly complex border surveillance systems and use of risk-assessment...
View ArticleGreen Cards and Public Charge: Who Could Be Denied Based on Benefits Use?
On this webinar, MPI experts discussed the public-charge rule and released estimates of the populations that could be deemed ineligible for a green card based on existing benefits use. They examined...
View ArticleAmid an Unfolding Humanitarian Crisis in Syria, the European Union Faces the...
The high-stakes gambit taken by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to allow tens of thousands of asylum seekers and migrants free movement to the Greek border demonstrated the fragility of the...
View ArticleCrisis within a Crisis: Immigration in the United States in a Time of COVID-19
The global COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the intersection of U.S. immigration and public health policy, and the unique challenges that immigrants face. This article analyzes the Trump...
View ArticleAfrica Deepens its Approach to Migration Governance, But Are Policies...
While migration once was a lower-priority topic for African governments, the last decade has seen a deepening in governance. Policymakers have integrated migration into their national development...
View ArticleVenezuelan Immigrants in the United States
Until recently, the Venezuelan immigrant population in the United States was relatively small compared others from South America. But it has grown significantly, reaching 394,000 in 2018, as...
View ArticleA Proxy War on Minorities? India Crafts Citizenship and Refugee Policies...
The Modi government's push for a Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens sparked deadly riots and chilled India's 200 million Muslims, who fear being relegated to second-class...
View ArticleVulnerable to COVID-19 and in Frontline Jobs, Immigrants Are Mostly Shut Out...
On the frontlines of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic yet also more disproportionately affected by the virus and with reduced health care access, immigrants in the United States have largely found...
View ArticleUnder Lockdown Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Europe Feels the Pinch from Slowed...
Border closures and lockdowns amid the COVID-19 pandemic have put a chill on intra-EU labor mobility, most immediately with the difficulty for European farmers to gain access to much-needed seasonal...
View ArticleBarriers to COVID-19 Testing and Treatment: Immigrants without Health...
As millions of U.S. workers lose jobs and the health insurance associated with them, Medicaid and similar programs are increasingly important for people seeking COVID-19 testing and treatment. Yet many...
View ArticleImmigrant Health-Care Workers in the United States
Immigrants make up a disproportionately high number of U.S. health-care workers, from doctors and nurses to home health aides. In 2018, more than 2.6 million immigrants worked in the U.S. health-care...
View ArticleClimate Change, Displacement, and Managed Retreat in Coastal India
Coastal communities in India are confronting the effects of sea-level rise, erosion, flooding, and cyclones. This article examines displacement and migration from Odisha, the Sundarbans delta, and...
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