Climate Migration 101
Climate migration sounds simple. It is not. MPI’s Lawrence Huang answers some of the most common questions around one of the least understood dynamics in human movement.
View ArticleImproving Communications in the Voluntary Return and Reintegration Network
This webinar explores the goals and target audiences for public-facing information campaigns on voluntary return and reintegration, how to evaluate dissemination gaps, and the risks associated with...
View ArticleAs Nauru Shows, Asylum Outsourcing Has Unexpected Impacts on Host Communities
For two decades, asylum seekers seeking to reach Australia by boat were diverted to Nauru, a small Pacific Island nation that made a hefty profit off the extraterritorial asylum arrangement. But...
View ArticleWhere Are All the Climate Migrants? Explaining Immobility amid Environmental...
Despite the widespread impression that people inevitably migrate away from climate-vulnerable areas, many adapt to environmental changes, choose to remain in their homeland, or simply cannot leave, due...
View ArticleVietnamese Immigrants in the United States
The more than 1.3 million Vietnamese immigrants in the United States are the result of nearly 50 years of migration that began with the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. While early generations of...
View ArticleThe World’s Leading Refugee Host, Turkey Has a Complex Migration History
Turkey is home to the world’s largest refugee population, a fact that has been a source of pride, a geopolitical tool, and a logistical challenge. This article shows how the millions of Syrians who...
View ArticleClimate Migration 101: An Explainer
Is climate change a major driver of migration and displacement? From where are people leaving, and where are they going? This informative primer, a Climate Migration 101 of sorts, provides answers to...
View ArticleConsolidating Gains: Lessons and Priorities for Promoting Fair and Ethical...
With more people moving abroad for work and events such as the 2022 World Cup in Qatar highlighting the risks migrant workers can face, questions about how international recruitment occurs have...
View ArticleThe Philippines’ Landmark Labor Export and Development Policy Enters the Next...
Fifty years after the birth of the Philippines' strategy to use emigration as a tool for development, the government is doubling down on labor migration. While deployment of overseas Filipino workers...
View ArticleAging Societies Rely on Immigrant Health-Care Workers, Posing Challenges for...
Countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany are increasingly relying on immigrant health-care workers to fill gaps in their workforce and care for aging populations. That has...
View ArticleChina’s Demand for Brides Draws Women from Across Southeast Asia—Sometimes by...
An unknown number of women and girls from Southeast Asia have gone to China to marry Chinese men. Many go voluntarily, hoping for a better quality of life for themselves and their families. But some...
View ArticleSouth Asia’s Tibetan Refugee Community Is Shrinking, Imperiling Its Long-Term...
The number of Tibetan refugees in India, Nepal, and Bhutan has been on a steady decline since the mid-2000s, posing a threat to the future of an exile community that has developed a robust governance,...
View ArticleAfghan Immigrants in the United States
The Afghan immigrant population in the United States has grown dramatically since 2010, and particularly since the 2021 withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan. Most Afghans who obtained a green...
View ArticleReliant on Labor Migration, the Global South Forges a New Social Contract...
Countries such as Nepal and the Philippines have grown reliant on sending workers abroad to earn money, skills, and connections that help boost their economies. In these cases, emigration has become a...
View ArticleLeaving No One Behind: Inclusive Fintech for Remittances
Remittances are a vital lifeline for migrants’ families around the world and an important source of revenue for many low- and middle-income countries, especially in times of crisis. As more people turn...
View ArticleMoving Mountains: Climate Migration in High Altitudes
This episode of Changing Climate, Changing Migration speaks with Amina Maharjan from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development about the unique climate migration issues that are...
View ArticleIran Faces Dwindling Water and Escalating Climate Pressures, Aggravating...
Floods, heatwaves, and other extreme weather events have displaced hundreds of thousands of people in Iran, with repercussions for residents including the 3.4 million refugees and other forced...
View ArticleMobility Shutdown: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Migration in Asia and the Pacific
Some of the strictest COVID-19 pandemic-era limits on human mobility occurred in the Asia Pacific region. Border closures started in East and Southeast Asia in early 2020 and quickly spread through the...
View ArticleLessons from COVID-19: Managing Borders in the Next Global Public-Health Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic both shocked the global mobility system and reaffirmed the centrality and resiliency of human mobility. Four years on, public and political attention to COVID-19’s unprecedented...
View ArticleBrain Drain and Brain Gain in Hong Kong’s Population Shuffle
Hong Kong finds itself in the middle of opposing trends. Amid political unrest, Beijing's increasing security pressure, and pandemic disruptions, many Hong Kongers have left and been replaced by a new...
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