Dependent 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....
View ArticleGaps 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...
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