Refugee Sponsorship Programs: A Global State of Play and Opportunities for...
From Argentina to New Zealand and points beyond, a growing number of countries have begun exploring refugee sponsorship as a way to expand protection capacity at a time of rising need, involving...
View ArticleBeyond Work: Reducing Social Isolation for Refugee Women and Other...
As migrant- and refugee-receiving countries in Europe, North America, and beyond prioritize services that are focused on employment, language instruction, and civic integration, newcomers who are not...
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 ArticleCoronavirus Is Spreading across Borders, But It Is Not a Migration Problem
Travel bans, border closures, and other migration management tools did not prove effective at blocking COVID-19 from spreading across international borders. Yet as governments have shifted from...
View ArticleA Race Against the Clock: Meeting Seasonal Labor Needs in the Age of COVID-19
As governments have reacted to the coronavirus pandemic by closing borders, seasonal workers have been kept out, raising a pressing question: who is going to produce the food amid agricultural labor...
View ArticleExpert Podcast: Meeting Seasonal Labor Needs in the Age of COVID-19
Governments are facing urgent pandemic-related questions. One of the more pressing ones: Who is going to harvest crops in countries that rely heavily on seasonal foreign workers? In this podcast, MPI...
View ArticleThe Rocky Road to a Mobile World after COVID-19
COVID-19 has chilled many forms of human movement, from travel to temporary and permanent migration, refugee resettlement, and returns, among them. While a safe restart of travel is a precondition for...
View ArticleMeasuring Up? Using Monitoring and Evaluation to Make Good on the Promise of...
A growing number of countries, particularly in Europe, have piloted or implemented refugee sponsorship programs in recent years. Yet there is limited evidence of how well these programs, which tap...
View ArticleManaging the Pandemic and Its Aftermath: Economies, Jobs, and International...
Around the world, governments are grappling with how to combat the COVID-19 pandemic while also managing the economic fallout of policies put in place to stop the virus’ spread. Global migration has...
View ArticleMovement after Migration: Immigrants’ Disproportionate Reliance on Public...
Across North America and Europe, immigrants rely on public transit at higher rates than the native born. This article explores why migrants are disproportionately more likely to use public...
View ArticleCOVID-19 and the State of Global Mobility in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically curtailed cross-border mobility in 2020, affecting travelers and migrants around the world. This report presents a first-of-its-kind analysis of the many thousands of...
View ArticleCanadian Immigrants in the United States
The United States and Canada share the world's longest land border and similar cultures. But Canadians account for a tiny and shrinking share of all U.S. immigrants. Canadian immigrants tend to have...
View ArticleCanada’s Private Sponsorship Model Represents a Complementary Pathway for...
Canada is one of the world’s top countries for resettling refugees, relying on individual Canadians and nonprofit groups—not the government—for much of this resettlement. This article examines Canada’s...
View ArticleFuture Scenarios for Global Mobility in the Shadow of Pandemic
More than 18 months since the first COVID-19-related travel restrictions were introduced, the pandemic’s effects on global mobility are still unfolding. With vaccination campaigns picking up speed in...
View ArticleOpening More Avenues for Protection for Refugees
This MPI Europe webinar marks the launch of a report that maps refugee resettlement and complementary pathway programs around the world and offers recommendations for how UNHCR, national governments,...
View ArticleRefugee Resettlement and Complementary Pathways: Opportunities for Growth
The number of people who have been forcibly displaced has grown to unprecedented levels. While the global refugee protection regime has come under incredible strain as a result, states have also shown...
View ArticleThe Changing Concepts around Immigrant Integration
Immigrant integration is a complicated process that cannot fully be measured by any single metric. Understandings of immigrant integration have changed over time, and this article explores how the...
View ArticleSymposium on the Migration Dynamics of North America Before, During, and...
This symposium examines the migration dynamics of Canada, the United States, and Central America, the challenges, the complications of the Covid-19 pandemic, and what governments should consider as...
View ArticleAs the United States Lifts Travel Restrictions, Its New Vaccination...
The U.S. decision to lift border restrictions for fully vaccinated international travelers represents the latest move by governments around the world to loosen COVID-19-era travel restrictions. Yet it...
View ArticleConnections Between Refugee Sponsorship and Complementary Pathways
This expert panel comprised of international and regional policy specialists, practitioners, advocates, and researchers will discuss the connections between refugee sponsorship and complementary pathways.
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