The Evolution of the Australian System for Selecting Economic Immigrants
Since the mid-1990s, Australia has moved away from a focus on family reunification to place greater emphasis on workers coming via temporary and permanent channels. The evolution of the country's...
View ArticleStart-Up Visas: A Passport for Innovation and Growth?
Over the last decade, a number of governments have launched start-up visa programs in the hopes of attracting talented immigrant entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas. With the track record for...
View ArticleEquipping Immigrant Selection Systems for a Changing World of Work...
As technological developments—from automation to artificial intelligence and machine learning—reshape the world of work, governments face the challenge of updating how they attract, select, and retain...
View ArticleAfrican Countries Relax Short-Term Visa Policies for Chinese in Sign of...
China has been Africa’s largest trading partner since 2009, and as commerce and investment have increased, so have flows of people in both directions. With an estimated 1 million to 2 million Chinese...
View ArticleChronicling Migration in the 21st Century Through One Family's Journey
This event features the launch of New YorkTimes reporter Jason DeParle's book tracing the arc of migration as a phenomenon, witnessed through three decades observing a particular Filipino family moving...
View ArticleChronicling Migration in the 21st Century Through One Family’s Journey
Marking the launch of New York Times reporter Jason DeParle's book tracing the arc of migration and its impacts through the life of an extended family of Filipino migrants over a three-decade period,...
View ArticleThe Multicultural Dilemma: Amid Rising Diversity and Unsettled Equity Issues,...
New Zealand drew global attention for its unity and support for the Muslim community targeted during the horrific Christchurch attacks. Yet the country's road to inclusion has been far from...
View ArticleDependent on Remittances, Tajikistan’s Long-Term Prospects for Economic...
More than 1 million Tajiks migrate to Russia every year—a sizeable outflow for a country of about 9 million people. These high levels of emigration have had major effects for Tajikistan, especially in...
View ArticleRefugee 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 ArticleGlobal Demand for Medical Professionals Drives Indians Abroad Despite Acute...
India is the world's largest source for immigrant physicians, and for Indian-trained doctors and nurses the allure of working abroad is strong despite an acute domestic shortage of health-care workers....
View ArticleAlly or Exploiter? The Smuggler-Migrant Relationship Is a Complex One
As highly industrialized countries ramp up their border controls, human smugglers are playing a central role in moving migrants through key migration corridors around the world. Despite the illicit...
View ArticleSeasonal Worker Programs in Europe: Promising Practices and Ongoing Challenges
Seasonal worker programs in the European Union have a long history, but have yet to find the sweet spot of working for migrants, employers, and countries of destination and origin alike. This policy...
View ArticleJapan’s Labor Migration Reforms: Breaking with the Past?
Japan is hoping to bring in as many as 350,000 medium-skilled foreign workers over five years to fill labor market gaps in its rapidly aging society. Yet does this system of Specified Skilled Workers...
View ArticleAmid an Unfolding Humanitarian Crisis in Syria, the European Union Faces the...
The high-stakes gambit taken by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to allow tens of thousands of asylum seekers and migrants free movement to the Greek border demonstrated the fragility of the...
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 ArticleA Proxy War on Minorities? India Crafts Citizenship and Refugee Policies...
The Modi government's push for a Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens sparked deadly riots and chilled India's 200 million Muslims, who fear being relegated to second-class...
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 ArticleClimate Change, Displacement, and Managed Retreat in Coastal India
Coastal communities in India are confronting the effects of sea-level rise, erosion, flooding, and cyclones. This article examines displacement and migration from Odisha, the Sundarbans delta, and...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Pandemic Profoundly Affects Bangladeshi Workers Abroad with...
Bangladesh is one of the world’s largest migrant-origin countries, and money sent home by its workers abroad is crucial to an economy that has become one of the more vibrant ones in South Asia. Against...
View ArticleFilipino Immigrants in the United States in 2018
Immigration from the Philippines to the United States has been taking place for more than a century, escalating towards the end of the 20th century. Filipinos now represent the fourth-largest U.S....
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