Ten Facts About U.S. Refugee Resettlement
This fact sheet offers some key facts about the U.S. refugee resettlement program, which is the world's largest. It answers key questions such as how refugees fare in the labor market in the United...
View ArticleServing Newcomer Immigrant and Refugee Students in Secondary Schools:...
This webinar examines the challenges facing educators and policymakers in Europe and the United States as they attempt to meet the needs of immigrant and refugee students who arrive during their middle...
View ArticleThe Educational Experiences of Refugee Children in Countries of First Asylum
The pre-resettlement experiences of refugee children can have significant ramifications on their relationships with teachers and peers and on their academic advancement once resettled. This report...
View ArticleRefugees and Asylees in the United States
The United States is the largest refugee resettlement country in the world, with 69,933 newly arrived refugees granted protection in 2015. Responding to the global humanitarian crisis, the Obama...
View ArticleYoung Refugee Children: Their Schooling Experiences in the United States and...
In this webinar, the authors of three papers on the experiences of refugee children present their findings, with a focus on how such experiences affect their mental health and education.
View ArticlePaying for Protection: Corruption in South Africa’s Asylum System
Systemic corruption has flourished in South Africa's asylum system due to large backlogs and rising demand. Though apartheid's end ushered in a progressive refugee law, inefficiency, administrative...
View ArticleTransatlantic Symposium Report: Improving Instruction for Immigrant and...
In June 2015, MPI's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy convened a symposium in Brussels bringing together policymakers, teacher educators, and researchers from the United States and Europe...
View ArticleMeeting the Education Needs of Rising Numbers of Newly Arrived Migrant...
As flows of young migrant and refugee children increase on both sides of the Atlantic, the demands placed on education systems by newcomer students have never been greater. This commentary addresses...
View ArticleProfile of Syrian Immigrants in the United States
Approximately 86,000 Syrian immigrants resided in the United States in 2014, including 2,261 resettled refugees. This fact sheet provides information on the Syrian immigrant population in the United...
View ArticleWelcoming Engagement: How Private Sponsorship Can Strengthen Refugee...
Refugee resettlement, typically thought of as a government-led activity, can also be sponsored by private individuals, groups, corporations, and other entities. This report examines the small number of...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2015 – Issue #8: A Shared Challenge: Europe and the United States...
Child migrants traveling alone to Europe or the United States face similar dangers and are particularly at risk of abuse and trafficking. The arrival of tens of thousands of such children in Europe and...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2015 – Issue #6: Refugee Crisis Deepens Political Polarization in...
As seemingly endless waves of asylum seekers and migrants arrived in Europe in 2015, politicians from across the political spectrum invoked forceful anti-immigrant rhetoric that resonated in some...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2015 – Issue #4: Big Business of Smuggling Enables Mass Movement of...
Faced with a flexible, diverse, and seemingly ubiquitous smuggling industry, governments have struggled to respond. Smuggling and trafficking networks, while hardly new phenomena, were put under a...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2015 – Issue #2: Displacement Reaches Record High as Wars Continue...
Global displacement reached a new high with nearly 60 million people worldwide displaced internally or externally in the greatest number since record-keeping began. The trend continued in 2015 as...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2015 – Issue #1: Migration Crisis Tests European Consensus and...
Europe's defining challenge in 2015 was the exponential growth in the number of asylum seekers and migrants arriving on its shores. The European Union and its Member States were slow to respond, and...
View ArticleScaling Up Resettlement: The Role of Private Sponsorship Programmes in...
A webinar discussing a recent MPI report and analysis on how private sponsorship programmes for refugees could alleviate some of the pressure from the European refugee crisis.
View ArticleTrends in Unaccompanied Child and Family Migration from Central America
This fact sheet uses U.S. and Mexican apprehensions data to trace the evolving trends in unaccompanied child and family migration from Central America through Mexico and to the United States, and...
View ArticleProtecting the Forcibly Displaced: Latin America’s Evolving Refugee and...
Signed more than 30 years ago, the Cartagena Declaration sought to address rising flows of refugees and establish regional solidarity in refugee protection in Latin America. This article explores the...
View ArticleFocusing on Protection: Previewing Upcoming High-Level Fora on Migration
A webinar with the UN Secretary-General's special representative on migration and the former UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees previewing upcoming high-level humanitarian protection and...
View ArticleScaling Up Resettlement: The Role of Private Sponsorship Programmes in...
A webinar discussing how private sponsorship programmes for refugees, used by Canada and a handful of other countries, could alleviate some of the pressure from the European refugee crisis, by allowing...
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