Digital Humanitarianism: How Tech Entrepreneurs Are Supporting Refugee...
Tech communities in Europe and North America have been spurred into action by the refugee crisis, developing apps and other tools that can be used along the journey, immediately upon arrival, and for...
View ArticleNew Approaches to Refugee Crises in the 21st Century: The Role of the...
The movement of more than 1 million refugees across the Mediterranean in 2015 brought much-needed attention to the inadequacy of the global humanitarian system and starkly underlined the need for new...
View ArticleBeyond Care and Maintenance: Rebuilding Hope and Opportunity for Refugees...
Possibilities for many refugees to return to their country of origin are limited, yet conditions for the displaced in many first-asylum countries are bleak and resettlement places few. This...
View ArticleThe Impact of Mexican Maternal Migration on Children’s Future Ambitions
While Mexican women account for a significant share of migration flows to the United States, there has been little focus on their movement and effects on children in Mexico. This article, based on...
View ArticleDespite Hard-Line Immigration Campaign Pledges, Trump Policy Remains in Flux
Donald Trump has made a series of postelection statements suggesting he may backtrack on several campaign pledges on immigration, including building a wall across the entire U.S.-Mexico border and...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2016 – Issue #10: While Mobility Comes under Assault in Europe,...
In stark contrast to a Europe that is erecting new barriers and reinstituting border controls, other regions around the world are moving toward greater mobility for intraregional travelers and...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2016 – Issue #8: New Actors Step Up to Help Shoulder Growing...
2016 saw the emergence of a "whole-of-society" approach to the refugee crisis, with a number of new actors, including many from the private sector, engaging with humanitarian protection issues in...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2016 – Issue #7: Migrants and Smugglers Get Creative to Circumvent...
Smugglers and migrants adapted their paths in light of changing conditions in 2016, including the construction of walls and closure of borders. Cuban and Haitian migrants increasingly chose to make...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2016 – Issue #6: Crises with Links to Immigration Result in...
While Europe and the United States saw terror attacks in 2016 carried out by radicalized immigrants or members of the second generation, policy responses varied on either side of the Atlantic. The...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2016 – Issue #2: As Trump Takes Office, Immigration Enforcement and...
With the incoming Trump administration pledging a crackdown on illegal immigration, construction of border walls, reductions in refugee and immigrant admissions, and greater screening of newcomers,...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2016 – Issue #1: Dawn of New Migration Reality Brings Focus on...
As Europe begins to move beyond the overwhelming flows of asylum seekers and other migrants it experienced starting in 2015, policymakers are paying significant focus to integration coupled with...
View ArticleTo Stay or Not To Stay: The Calculus for International STEM Students in the...
More than 1 million international students were in the United States in 2015-16, a significant share of them in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) fields. While countries increasingly are...
View ArticleSyrian Refugees in the United States
More than 18,000 Syrian refugees have been resettled in the United States since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011. Nearly half of Syrian refugees are under age 14, and this population is more...
View ArticleLabor Migration from Myanmar: Remittances, Reforms, and Challenges
Having emerged from a long era of military rule, Myanmar's leaders and many citizens are looking outward. In particular, with Burmese labor migration abroad on the rise, policymakers are examining ways...
View ArticleConstrained by its Roots: How the Origins of the Global Asylum System Limit...
While territorial asylum—the principle that a refugee must reach the territory of a host country in order to lodge a protection claim—has become the dominant response to refugee outflows, it does not...
View ArticleThe Obama Record on Deportations: Deporter in Chief or Not?
President Obama faced criticism over his administration's handling of immigration enforcement from both the left and the right, labeled "deporter in chief" even as he was also accused of lax...
View ArticleWith Millions Displaced by Climate Change or Extreme Weather, Is There a Role...
Climate-related displacement is not hypothetical: An average of 21.5 million people per year have been displaced since 2008 by natural disasters, and thousands more have fled slow-onset environmental...
View ArticleKorean Immigrants in the United States
Approximately 1 million Korean immigrants (overwhelmingly from South Korea) lived in the United States in 2015, representing 2.4 percent of the U.S. immigrant population. While earlier waves consisted...
View ArticleThe Evolving and Diversifying Nature of Migration to the U.S.-Mexico Border
Two significant migration shifts at the U.S.-Mexico border have been obscured by talk of walls and further border security: Mexicans no longer represent the top unauthorized crossers, replaced by...
View ArticleJudge’s Pause of Trump Travel Ban Takes Page from Republican Challenge to...
The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to halt President Trump's controversial executive order on immigration and refugee resettlement has strong legal parallels to an earlier...
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