Building Bridges Not Walls: Key Lessons from the 2019 Global Education...
Marking the U.S. release of the 2019 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, this discussion looks at different ways education policymakers, teachers, and civil society have responded to the...
View ArticleHow Latin America Is Responding to the Venezuelan Exodus
More than 3 million Venezuelans have fled in response to the deepening political and economic crisis in their country, and in this webinar experts from Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru will discuss the...
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 ArticleThe Road Ahead: Coordination Challenges of Implementing the GCM
The Member States of the United Nations will convene in December to adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration (GCM). Ahead of the adoption, this side event in Marrakech (open...
View ArticleChildMove: A Discussion on the Project Following Unaccompanied Young Refugees...
A discussion on the vital new research project, ChildMove, that explores the experiences of young refugees and migrants who have traveled across Europe unaccompanied by their families.
View ArticleHow Latin America Is Responding to the Venezuelan Exodus
Over 3 million Venezuelans have fled in response to the deepening political and economic crisis in their country, becoming one of the largest and fastest outflows anywhere in the world. Senior...
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 ArticleExploring the Potential of Two-Generation Strategies in Refugee Integration
At a time when the U.S. refugee resettlement program is facing an extraordinary set of pressures and challenges, MPI experts and state refugee coordinators from Utah and Colorado discuss findings from...
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 ArticlePromoting Refugee Integration in Challenging Times: The Potential of...
At a time when the U.S. refugee resettlement system is facing unprecedented challenges, innovative and cost-effective tools for supporting refugee integration are in demand. This report explores how a...
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 ArticleExploring the Potential of Two-Generation Strategies in Refugee Integration
On this webinar, MPI researchers and Utah and Colorado refugee coordinators explore promising practices to better serve refugee families, including education services for refugee youth, innovative...
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 ArticleSocial Innovation for Refugee Inclusion: A Sense of Home
The third Social Innovation for Refugee Inclusion Conference aims to explore how innovations in living situations for refugees can promote community-driven inclusion, overcome divisions, facilitate...
View ArticleA Wall Cannot Fix Problems at Border; Smart Solutions for Asylum Crisis Can
What President Trump calls a border crisis is in fact a crisis in the asylum system—one worsened at every turn by his administration’s harsh policies and rhetoric. Rather than spend $5.7 billion on a...
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