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WASHINGTON, DC – Infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) services can play an important part in supporting young children’s well-being and development. For young children in immigrant and refugee families, who make up about one-fourth of all U.S. children ages 0–5, mental health supports can be particularly impactful given stressors related to migration and acculturation as well as the fact that some have experienced trauma.
WASHINGTON, DC – Spain and the United States both receive their greatest number of immigrants from Latin America and have worked collaboratively together on displacement crises and other migration issues. As shared migration challenges dominate debate on both sides of the Atlantic, a new Migration Policy Institute (MPI) commentary makes the case that Spain can serve as a vital bridge in the transatlantic policy conversation.
WASHINGTON, DC — Travel restrictions have become integral tools within the global public-health crisis response playbook, but governments have failed to internalize the lessons on mobility and border management from the COVID-19 pandemic. In face of waning political interest in COVID-19, new research from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) Task Force on Mobility and Borders highlights the need for a fuller postmortem, ahead of the next public-health crisis.
WASHINGTON — In a world where remittances are a cornerstone in the lives of countless people in low- and middle-income countries, a new era of financial inclusion is dawning, albeit not without significant challenges. Migrants and others sent an estimated $860 billion in remittances through official channels in 2023 — a revenue stream long recognized as an essential tool for economic and social development.
WASHINGTON, DC — The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) today proposed the creation of a new employment-based visa pathway—the bridge visa—to enable the United States to better leverage immigration to meet its labor market needs, address rapidly changing economic and demographic realities, and remain competitive at a time when an increasing number of countries are vying for top global talent and for workers needed to complement their own aging populations.
WASHINGTON, DC — Known for its long tradition of providing refuge, the U.S. humanitarian protection system is under major strain at a time of mass displacements globally, a backlog of more than 2 million asylum applications and record U.S.-Mexico border arrivals of migrants seeking asylum.
WASHINGTON, DC — Governments increasingly are experimenting with new mobility pathways for refugees, beyond traditional resettlement operations. These include complementary pathways that connect refugees with work or study opportunities in a country other than the one in which they first sought safety. Yet this push to expand refugees’ future prospects by creating more and safer mobility options is running into the reality that refugees’ ability to travel internationally is often restricted.
WASHINGTON, DC — States have been meeting their mandate under federal law to develop systems to hold K-12 schools accountable for the outcomes of all students, through the collection and use of data that illuminate the needs and gaps for historically underserved student groups, including English Learners (ELs). While these accountability systems are highlighting achievement gaps between ELs and their non-EL peers, they could be refined to generate a clearer picture of EL student outcomes.
WASHINGTON, DC — Expanded access to federally funded public benefits and supports in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic vividly highlighted how such programs can reduce hardships for families and children, lifting millions out of poverty. The end of the public-health emergency, announced on May 11, 2023, signaled a return to standard eligibility rules and brought a significant loss of access to support for many low-income individuals and families, including immigrants.
WASHINGTON, DC — Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Roberta S. Jacobson and former European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström today were elected chair and vice chair, respectively, of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) Board of Trustees.
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. border control enterprise at the U.S.-Mexico border has faced two distinctly different eras of unauthorized migration: The first, from the 1980s through the early 2010s, was addressing overwhelmingly Mexican seasonal adult flows. The current era has been marked first by a rise in arrivals of Central American children and families beginning in 2014, and most recently unprecedented flows of asylum seekers from Latin America and beyond.
WASHINGTON, DC — The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) has tallied that President Joe Biden and his administration have taken 535 immigration-related executive actions during their first three years, surpassing the 472 advanced during all four years of the Trump administration—which was widely viewed as having the most activist presidency yet on immigration.
WASHINGTON, DC — Faced with displacement crises that have stretched asylum systems to their limits, countries increasingly are turning to alternatives to traditional refugee protection to provide displaced individuals with legal status and access to certain rights and forms of assistance. Often, the status offered is temporary and is granted to a class of vulnerable individuals, forgoing the need for person-by-person adjudication.
WASHINGTON, DC — A new report out today calls for major reforms and investments — including for immigration functions not always understood to be part of the border enforcement system — to address unprecedented migration challenges at the U.S.-Mexico border. Drawing from visits to U.S.
BRUSSELS — Public sentiment towards refugees is dynamic and susceptible to political winds. Some of the most generous public and policy responses to large-scale cross-border movements of forced migrants — Syrians in Turkey, Venezuelans in Colombia and Ukrainians in Europe — hold lessons both on how public support has been sustained over time and when and why it begins to fade.
BRUSSELS — What seemed close to impossible in recent years—an EU-wide agreement on migration—is now likely to become reality, with the New Pact on Migration and Asylum in the last stages of negotiation and hoped-for approval before European elections next June. Yet even if the pact is finalized, it must pass another test before policymakers can claim victory: translation of the complex legal construct into something that works in practice and can withstand spikes in migrant arrivals and other challenges.
WASHINGTON — As more people move internationally in search of work, questions of how and under what conditions workers are recruited and employed have attracted increased scrutiny. Events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have shone a bright light on the risks migrants can face, the complex web of intermediaries that connect employers and prospective employees, and the ongoing need for better regulation of recruitment and improved protections for workers.
WASHINGTON, DC — The refugee resettlement consultation process between federal, state and local stakeholders is falling short as the U.S. government has turned to new temporary and emergency humanitarian pathways to bring in sizeable numbers of people in need of protection, a Migration Policy Institute (MPI) report out today finds.
WASHINGTON — Migrants and displaced persons increasingly are making the move from rural areas and settling in small and mid-sized urban cities, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, which is one of the world’s most rapidly urbanizing regions. Drawn by the promise of greater job opportunities and more direct access to health, education and social services, these newcomers are part of a growing population boom in cities of 150,000 to 5 million people.