Gaps in India’s Treatment of Refugees and Vulnerable Internal Migrants Are...
India has no refugee law and has not signed the 1951 Refugee Convention, leaving many of its estimated 250,000 recognized refugees in a legal gray area. Meanwhile, more than 450 million internal...
View ArticleIndian Immigrants in the United States
There are 2.7 million Indian immigrants in the United States, making them the second-largest immigrant group after Mexicans. This number has increased dramatically in recent years, growing 13-fold...
View ArticleImpacts of Climate Change as Drivers of Migration
Climate change is affecting human movement now, causing internal displacement and international migration, and will do so in the future. But the impact is often indirect, and rarely is the process as...
View ArticleManaging the Pandemic and Its Aftermath: Economies, Jobs, and International...
Around the world, governments are grappling with how to combat the COVID-19 pandemic while also managing the economic fallout of policies put in place to stop the virus’ spread. Global migration has...
View ArticleBuilding Climate Resilience through Migration in Thailand
Migration can help build resilience against the encroaching effects of climate change. Instead of being passive victims of environmental degradation, individuals sometimes move to gain money,...
View ArticleNew Approaches to Climate Change and Migration: Building the Adaptive...
The link between climate change and migration is a complex one. Whether individuals move or stay in place can be voluntary or involuntary, a proactive strategy or last resort, and is part of a bigger...
View ArticleChanging Climate, Changing Migration: Purposeful and Coordinated: Climate...
Confronting environmental change, whole communities sometimes relocate from one area to another. This purposeful, coordinated movement, while currently rare, is referred to as managed retreat. In this...
View ArticleHow Will International Migration Policy and Sustainable Development Affect...
Climate change is likely to increase the intensity of extreme-weather events already shaping human mobility and displacement. The nature, scale, and direction of future climate-related migration will...
View ArticleRewiring Migrant Returns and Reintegration after the COVID-19 Shock
Migrant returns and reintegration have been the subject of intense international debate in recent years, and the COVID-19 pandemic has added an extra layer of complexity as millions of migrants have...
View ArticleThe Eurasian Economic Union: Repaving Central Asia’s Road to Russia?
In recent decades Russia has been increasingly reliant on Central Asian migrant workers. Those workers, in turn, have sent back remittances that have been crucial for their countries of origin. Since...
View ArticleChanging Climate, Changing Migration: The Many Possible Futures of...
Climate change is already affecting how, whether, and where people migrate. But environmental change is likely to become more extreme in the coming decades, unless the world takes serious action now....
View ArticleChanging Climate, Changing Migration: Migrate or Adapt? How Pacific Islanders...
Among the earliest examples of the disruptions that climate change can bring, some low-lying island countries in the Pacific Ocean are facing serious threats from rising sea levels and coastal erosion....
View ArticleImmigrants from Asia in the United States
Nearly one-third of all immigrants in the United States come from Asia, and Asian countries such as India, China, and the Philippines are the origin for a growing number of foreign-born U.S. residents....
View ArticleA Bridge to Firmer Ground: Learning from International Experiences to Support...
Ten years into Syria's violent conflict, Syrians remain the largest refugee population worldwide. As they face limited prospects for resettlement or safe return, how can neighboring host countries and...
View ArticleStateless and Persecuted: What Next for the Rohingya?
The Rohingya people have been rendered stateless and subjected to repeated abuse that has made them the world’s most persecuted minority, with hundreds of thousands pushed into neighboring Bangladesh,...
View ArticleChanging Climate, Changing Migration: The Benefits of Climate Migration
Popular discussions usually frame climate change-induced migration negatively, often as a strategy of last resort. But migrating abroad can also be an effective way to build resilience against the...
View ArticleCOVID-19 and the State of Global Mobility in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically curtailed cross-border mobility in 2020, affecting travelers and migrants around the world. This report presents a first-of-its-kind analysis of the many thousands of...
View ArticleA Year of Pandemic: The State of Global Human Mobility & What Is on the...
Marking the release of an International Organization for Migration (IOM)-Migration Policy Institute (MPI) report, this two-panel discussion, features introductory remarks by IOM Director General...
View ArticleEU Strategy on Voluntary Return and Reintegration: Switching Perspectives?
In April 2021, the European Commission took a step toward the creation of a common EU return system, releasing its first Strategy on Voluntary Return and Reintegration. This MPI Europe event, marking...
View ArticleCan Diaspora Bonds Supercharge Development Investment?
Countries across the globe have considered novel ways for diasporas to directly invest in national development by purchasing diaspora bonds. Israel has raised billions through its Israel Bonds over the...
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