Climate Migration 101
Climate migration sounds simple. It is not. MPI’s Lawrence Huang answers some of the most common questions around one of the least understood dynamics in human movement.
View ArticleWho Counts as a Climate Migrant?
Researchers often seek to predict how many people will move due to climate change, but beyond the inherent forecasting difficulties, their work is complicated by the fact that terms such as "climate...
View ArticleDisplacement in the Sahel: Exploring Rising Migration and Responses in West...
MPI Europe Associate Director Camille Le Coz discusses rising displacement in the Sahel, which is experiencing multiple crises, with development economist Alexandra Tapsoba.
View ArticleAre Celebrity Spokespeople Always Helpful for Refugee Causes?
Famous faces have become a mainstay in promotional campaigns for humanitarian and refugee organizations. Celebrity advocacy can take a variety of forms, including encouraging donations, raising...
View ArticleMigration, Disasters, and Climate Change in Eastern Africa
Climate experts and regional authorities outline the challenges related to climate change and human mobility that local communities and national governments are confronting in Eastern Africa, and offer...
View ArticleHow the Treacherous Darien Gap Became a Migration Crossroads of the Americas
Passage through the Darien Gap has transformed migration across the Americas. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken the incredibly perilous journey across the remote jungle between Colombia and...
View ArticleStrengthening Refugee Engagement in Community Sponsorship Programs
Speakers, including a resettled refugee, examine the challenges that hinder refugee participation in sponsorship program design and operation and explore meaningful ways, tools, and mechanisms for...
View ArticleGreen Reintegration: Supporting Returning Migrants in Climate-Affected...
Reintegration after return is often a challenge, and doubly so for migrants returning to communities affected by climate change and environmental degradation. This brief explores the emergence of...
View ArticleMigration, Disasters, and Climate Change in Eastern Africa
During this MPI webinar, climate experts and regional authorities outline the challenges related to climate change and human mobility that local communities, national governments, and the IGAD region...
View ArticleWhere Are All the Climate Migrants? Explaining Immobility amid Environmental...
Despite the widespread impression that people inevitably migrate away from climate-vulnerable areas, many adapt to environmental changes, choose to remain in their homeland, or simply cannot leave, due...
View ArticleCómo el peligroso Tapón del Darién se convirtió en la encrucijada migratoria...
El paso por el Tapón del Darién ha transformado la migración en las Américas. Cada día, más de 1.000 personas cruzan lo que no hace mucho era un tramo de selva poco transitado entre Colombia y Panamá,...
View ArticleAddressing the Next Displacement Crisis in the Making in the Americas
The next major displacement of people in the Americas is in the making, and it is going unnoticed. The response to the steady emigration from Haiti seen since a devastating 2010 earthquake has been...
View Article20th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference
The 20th annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference, organized by MPI, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., and Georgetown University Law Center, features fresh, thoughtful policy and legal...
View ArticleEngaging Local Voices: Letting Cities Inform National Refugee Resettlement Goals
With the Global Refugee Forum approaching, this webcast explores how municipalities and other key stakeholders can be engaged in informing and delivering on the 2024 resettlement and complementary...
View ArticleMigration, Integration, and Development in Secondary Cities
This webinar will examine the challenges that refugees and other migrants face in—and place on—secondary cities, municipal capacity to respond to needs, the types of support required at national and...
View ArticleMigration and Displacement in Secondary Cities: Insights from Côte d’Ivoire...
Small and mid-sized cities are some of the fastest growing in many parts of the world, including sub-Saharan Africa. Yet life in these cities can present a variety of challenges for migrants and...
View ArticleA Passport to Opportunity: The Importance of Refugee Access to Travel Documents
Travel documents play an important role in international mobility, and for refugees serve as an essential gateway to a world of opportunities, from pursuing education and employment to reuniting with...
View ArticleEngaging Local Voices: Letting Cities Inform National Refugee Resettlement Goals
With the Global Refugee Forum approaching, this webcast explores how municipalities and other key stakeholders can be engaged in informing and delivering on the 2024 resettlement and complementary...
View ArticleConsolidating Gains: Lessons and Priorities for Promoting Fair and Ethical...
With more people moving abroad for work and events such as the 2022 World Cup in Qatar highlighting the risks migrant workers can face, questions about how international recruitment occurs have...
View ArticleMigration, Integration, and Development in Secondary Cities
This webinar examines the challenges that refugees and other migrants face in—and place on—secondary cities, municipal capacity to respond to needs, the types of support required at national and other...
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