Promoting the Health of Left-Behind Children of Asian Labour Migrants:...
International labor migration has become vital to economic development in Asian countries, but for children and families left behind, it can also at times create a negative influence on health, break...
View ArticleA Discussion on the Effects of Asian Labor Migration on the Health of...
This event explores the social and health impacts of international labour migration on the children who remain at home when one or both their parents emigrate.
View ArticleA Discussion on the Effects of Asian Labor Migration on the Health of...
This discussion, at the Bangkok launch of an MPI-International Organization for Migration issue brief, explores the social and health impacts of international labor migration on the children who remain...
View ArticleOpen Wallet, Closed Doors: Exploring Japan’s Low Acceptance of Asylum Seekers
Japan is one of the world's most generous contributors to humanitarian appeals, yet accepts a very small number of asylum seekers—indeed only 11 were granted refugee status in 2014. Even as Japan has...
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 ArticleThe Southeast Asia-Australia Regional Migration System: Some Insights into...
This report dispels the perception that flows between Australia and the ASEAN region are headed in one direction: to Australia. Using unpublished administrative data, the authors sketch a complex...
View ArticleInvestor Visa Programs: Examining their Utility, Challenges, and Successes
A discussion on the U.S. EB-5 program, the motivations underpinning recent changes to other investor visa programs in North America, Europe, and elsewhere, and the implications for the future direction...
View ArticleShortage Amid Surplus: Emigration and Human Capital Development in the...
A breakfast briefing to launch the Issue in Brief, Shortage amid Surplus: Emigration and Human Capital Development in the Philippines, that reviews the impacts of the Philippines' successful labor...
View ArticleInvestor Visa Programs: Examining their Utility, Challenges, and Successes
A discussion on the U.S. EB-5 program, the motivations underpinning recent changes to other investor visa programs in North America, Europe, and elsewhere, and the implications for the future direction...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2015 – Issue #10: Shine Wears Off Investor Visa Programs as...
A number of countries in 2015 redesigned their immigrant investor visa programs in response to questions about their economic benefits or allegations of fraud. The reforms have in some cases made such...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2015 – Issue #9: Border Skirmishes Resonate in National Domestic...
Facing electoral challenges, falling approval rates, and weak economies, some political leaders in 2015 altered border policies or engaged in conflicts across borders as tools of domestic policy. This...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2015 – Issue #7: Climate Change and Natural Disasters Displace...
From earthquakes to drought, natural disasters and climate change played a key role in migration flows in 2015. Climate-induced migration surfaced as a concern at the United Nations Climate Change...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2015 – Issue #5: Governments Increasingly Restrict Citizenship
Citizenship came under fire in new ways around the world in 2015, with attempts to both restrict who is eligible to become a citizen and who can be deprived of citizenship. Driven by fears of...
View ArticleShortage Amid Surplus: Emigration and Human Capital Development in the...
The Philippines has the most sophisticated labor-exporting model in the world, with 1.8 million temporary workers deployed in 2014 alone. This issue in brief reviews the impacts of the Philippines’...
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 ArticleShortage Amid Surplus: Emigration and Human Capital Development in the...
This briefing in Bangkok launches the MPI-IOM Issue in Brief, Shortage amid Surplus: Emigration and Human Capital Development in the Philippines, which reviews the impacts of the Philippines'...
View ArticleAsian Immigrants in the United States
The number of Asian immigrants in the United States has increased exponentially over the last 50 years, and Asia is now the second-largest region of birth of U.S. immigrants. The growth of this...
View ArticleEmigration Trends and Policies in China: Movement of the Wealthy and Highly...
This report analyzes the evolution of Chinese emigration from the 1970s, when market-oriented reforms began reducing barriers to movement beyond the country's borders, to the present day. High-skilled...
View ArticleAchieving Skill Mobility in the ASEAN Economic Community: Challenges,...
This report by MPI and the Asian Development Bank lays out a realistic roadmap toward freer movement among skilled professionals within the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), encouraging cooperation among...
View ArticleSeeking Safety, Jobs, and More: Afghanistan’s Mixed Flows Test Migration...
Afghanistan, once the world's largest origin of refugees, is increasingly experiencing mixed migration, including seasonal and permanent outflows for both economic and humanitarian reasons, internal...
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