Marissa Esthimer
Marissa Esthimer was Editor of the Migration Information Source, the Migration Policy Institute's respected online journal. She works as an analyst in the public sector.
Previously, she was a Communications and Web Specialist at MPI, where she worked on dissemination of the Institute’s research, monitoring of the Institute's media mentions, and on website operations and publication design and production. She has also worked as a pro bono online media consultant for a nonprofit that aims to provide job training for Latinos in the Washington, DC metro area. Previously, she interned at the Center for International Policy and the Center for Democracy in the Americas, where her work focused on U.S. relations with Latin America. She spent a semester studying in Argentina.
Ms. Esthimer graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in anthropology and government. She also holds a master of public policy degree from The George Washington University.
Bio Page Tabs
Recent Activity
Facing electoral challenges, falling approval rates, and weak economies, some political leaders in 2015 altered border policies or engaged in conflicts across borders as tools of domestic policy. This trend looks at the effects on migration of conflicts between Venezuela and Colombia, Russia and Ukraine, and India and Nepal.
The number of people around the world forcibly displaced by conflict or persecution reached its highest total since World War II, with more than 51.2 million fleeing their country or displaced within it, the UN refugee agency reported in 2014. An estimated 13.6 million people have been displaced by conflicts in Syria and Iraq alone, constituting what the UN High Commissioner for Refugees dubbed a mega-crisis.