Building Refugee-Inclusive Labor Mobility Pathways: A Visa Evaluation Framework
When refugees can access mainstream work visas, this offers opportunities to find safety while also helping destination countries meet pressing labor needs. Yet the design of many work visas puts them...
View ArticleBuilding Communities on the Playing Field: How Sports Are Used for Integration
Many countries have sought to encourage immigrants’ participation in sports as a pathway to integration. These efforts have followed broader social policy shifts and evolved as policymakers have...
View ArticleCanada's Long-Standing Openness to Immigration Comes Under Pressure
Canada has long been viewed as a global leader in creating welcoming immigration policies. But amid pressures on housing and services, as well as a surge in admission of temporary migrants, most...
View ArticleCanadian Immigrants in the United States
Historically close cultural and economic ties have prompted Canadians to move to the United States for generations. Canadians once accounted for one-tenth of all U.S. immigrants, although this share is...
View ArticleMigration Governance in Unsettled Times: How Policymakers Can Plan for...
Even as advanced economies with aging populations are increasingly reliant on immigrant workers, concerns have grown about how immigration could affect the cost of living and public infrastructure,...
View ArticleInternational Student Mobility: A Post-Pandemic Reset or a Broader Challenge?
International education has become a lucrative business, with more countries competing to attract tertiary-level students. But after years of growth, attitudes appear to be shifting in some major...
View ArticleFunding Climate Mobility Projects: Key Players and Strategies for Growth
As the scale and costs of climate change and environmental disasters grow, so do their impacts on migration and displacement. Tackling climate mobility will thus require well-designed investments. This...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Impact of Immigration on Demography: A Canadian Case Study
Many high-income countries are facing a challenging demographic future, as fertility rates drop, populations age, and governments face diminished tax revenues. Immigration is one policy option...
View ArticleComplementary Pathways: Key Factors in Future Growth
Humanitarian admission, sponsorship, and education- and employment-based mobility programs are becoming important tools for refugee protection, alongside traditional resettlement. Yet even as these...
View ArticleApproaches to Matching in Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways for Refugees...
Sponsorship and complementary pathway programs take different approaches to matching refugees and others in need of international protection with receiving communities, sponsors, or employers. This...
View ArticleWhat Does Integration Mean in a Multicultural Country like Canada?
Immigration trends in countries such as Canada are pushing some to reconsider how they think about integration. More than half of Canada's population could be immigrants or children of immigrants by...
View ArticleEngaging Employers in Growing Refugee Labor Pathways
Refugee labor pathways offer a potential win-win solution for displaced people with in-demand skills and industries facing acute labor shortages. Why and how do employers engage with these programs?...
View ArticleThe End of Asylum? Evolving the Protection System to Meet 21st Century...
Over the last decade, the international community has been roiled by crisis after crisis—from Syria and Rohingya displacement, to Venezuela, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Sudan. Territorial asylum, the...
View ArticleManaging International Protection Needs at Borders
Border management is complex, and particularly so amid high levels of mixed migration. It entails rapidly determining new arrivals’ identity, screening for security risks and protection needs, and...
View ArticleConstruyendo vías regulares para abordar presiones migratorias en el...
Los países a través de las Américas intentan gestionar eficazmente la migración. La meta es facilitar el movimiento a beneficio de las sociedades receptoras, los migrantes y sus países de origen y a la...
View ArticleBuilding on Regular Pathways to Address Migration Pressures in the Americas
Countries across the Americas are grappling with how to effectively manage migration. The aim is to facilitate movement in a way that benefits receiving societies, migrants, and their origin countries,...
View ArticleIs the Humanitarian Protection System Falling Apart or Quietly Evolving?
The international humanitarian protection system built amid the ashes of World War II has come under increasing strain, as record numbers of people flee internationally and travel farther distances....
View ArticleDe los principios a la acción: una nueva agenda para el segundo aniversario...
Dos años después de la firma de La Declaración de Los Ángeles sobre Migración y Protección, los gobiernos de a través de las Américas se reunieron en Guatemala para analizar el estado de cooperación en...
View ArticleTranslating Principles into Action: Countries Set New Agenda on the Los...
Two years after signing the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection, governments from across the Americas met in Guatemala to assess the state of cooperation in the hemisphere. Working with...
View ArticleThe State of Global Mobility in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic
While human mobility globally has largely recovered from its pandemic-era drop, it is undergoing considerable change. The causes are diverse, from climate shocks and shifting economic conditions to...
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