The 30th Anniversary of the 1980 Refugee Act: What the Refugee Program's History Suggests for a Better Future
Briefing with Representative Anh "Joseph" Cao, Second Congressional District of Louisiana; Kathleen Newland, Director, Refugee Policy Program, Migration Policy Institute; Kay Bellor, Vice President, US Programs, International Rescue Committee; Tara Magner, Senior Counsel, Office of Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman, US Senate Committee on the Judiciary; and António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (invited).
Monday, March 15, 2010
4:00 pm
US Capitol Building, Room HC-6, Washington, DC
USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas Discusses His Vision for the Agency
As part of MPI's Leadership Visions speaker series, Director Mayorkas will provide a presentation on his vision for US Citizenship and Immigration Services, followed by a conversation with Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director of MPI's US Policy program.
Monday, March 22, 2010
1:00 to 2:30 pm
Location TBD in Washington, DC
2010
Promoting Success on Both Sides of the Border: Binational Approaches to US Immigrant Integration
A discussion and report release with Ambassador Carlos García de Alba, Executive Director, Institute for Mexicans Abroad; and MPI's Laureen Laglagaron, Kathleen Newland, Aaron Terrazas, and Michael Fix.
January 28, 2010 Read Report | Listen/Download Event Audio
Powerpoints: Laglagaron/Terrazas | García de Alba
DHS Assistant Secretary John Morton discusses his vision for ICE
Launch of the MPI Speakers Series - Leadership Visions - Moderated by Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director, US Immigration Policy Program, MPI
January 25, 2010 Watch Video
2009
Illegal Immigration's Effects on the US Economy and Policy
Paper release with Gordon Hanson, University of California,
San Diego Economics Professor; Jeanne Butterfield, National
Immigration Forum Senior Advisor; Marc Rosenblum, MPI Senior
Policy Analyst; and Michael Fix, MPI Senior Vice President and
Director of Studies.
December 2, 2009 Download Report | Watch Video | Listen/Download Event Audio
Powerpoints: Hanson | Rosenblum
Talent, Competitiveness, and Migration
Book release and discussion with Demetrios G.
Papademetriou, MPI President; Michael S. Teitelbaum,
Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Carl Haub,
Senior Demographer and Conrad Taeuber Chair of Public
Information, Population Reference Bureau; and Joseph J.
Minarik, Senior Vice President and Director of Research,
Committee for Economic Development.
October 28, 2009 Purchase Book
View Powerpoints: Papademetriou | Teitelbaum | Haub
Paper Citizens - A Book Discussion on the Illicit
Market for Citizenship in the Developing World
Discussion with book author Dr. Kamal Sadiq, Assistant Professor
of Political Science at the University of California at Irvine,
and Susan Ginsburg, MPI Director of the Mobility and
Security Program.
October 1, 2009
Immigrant Detention: Can ICE Meet Its Legal Imperatives and Case Management Responsibilities?
Report release with Donald Kerwin, MPI Vice President for Programs; Serena Lin, MPI Data/Statistical Analyst; Dora Schriro, Director, ICE Office of Detention Policy and
Planning; and Andrea Black, Detention Watch Network Coordinator.
September 10, 2009 Watch Video | Download Report | View Powerpoint
The Next Generation of E-Verify: Getting Employer Verification Right
A Webinar with report co-author Marc R. Rosenblum, Senior Policy Analyst, MPI.
July 30, 2009 Download Report | Download/Listen to Audio | View PowerPoint
A New Proposal to Address US Immigration Future Flow Needs
Report release with Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director of the US Immigration Policy Program, MPI; Madeleine Sumption, Associate Policy Analyst, MPI; Marc
Rosenblum, Senior Policy Analyst, MPI; Jeanne Butterfield, Senior Advisor, National Immigration Forum; and Tamar Jacoby, President, ImmigrationWorks USA
July 24, 2009 Download Report
E-Verify: An Assessment of its Strengths and Weaknesses
Report release with Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director of the US Immigration Policy Program, MPI; and Marc Rosenblum, Senior Policy Analyst, MPI
July 20, 2009 Download Report | Watch Video
6th Annual Immigration Law & Policy Conference
This conference offered law and policy analysis and discussion on cutting-edge immigration issues. Panel discussion topics included Bringing Immigration
Policymaking into the 21st Century, Prospects for Immigration Reform: What to Expect from Washington?, and Communities Laying the Groundwork for Immigration
Reform and Beyond. Speakers included: Senate Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Charles Schumer and Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement
John Morton. Co-sponsored by MPI, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., and Georgetown University Law Center.
June 24, 2009
9:00 am - 5:00 pm View Agenda | Watch Video | View Powerpoint
How Are Iraqi Refugees Faring in the United States?
Briefing with George Rupp, President, International Rescue Committee (IRC); Robert Carey, Vice President for Resettlement and Migration Policy, IRC; Robin Dunn-Marcos, Director of the IRC Phoenix office; and Alaa Naji, Iraqi refugee resettled by IRC. Moderated by Kathleen Newland, Director of the Migrants, Migration, and Development, and Refugee Policy Programs, MPI; Member of the Board of Overseers of the IRC; and member of the IRC Commission. Co-sponsored by the International Rescue Committee.
June 16, 2009 Read Report
Current Migration Trends from Mexico: What Are the Impacts of the Economic Crisis and the US Enforcement Strategy?
Briefing by Wayne A. Cornelius, Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC-San Diego; and Center research team; with Doris
Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director of the US Immigration Policy Program, MPI.
June 8, 2009
View Powerpoint: Part I | Part 2
MPI Symposium on Citizenship
Discussion on citizenship with leading citizenship experts and key policymakers, including top government officials from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
May 15, 2009 View Agenda | Watch Video
Labor Markets and Immigration
Briefing and policy paper release with Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director of the US Immigration Policy Program, MPI; Demetrios G. Papademetriou, President, MPI;
Tamar Jacoby, President of ImmigrationWorks USA; and Frank Sharry, Founder and Executive Director of America's Voice.
May 13, 2009 Download Report
Discussion on the Treatment of Asylum Seekers in the United States
Breakfast briefing with Eleanor Acer, Director of the Refugee Protection Program, Human Rights
First; Michael Cromartie, Vice Chair, US Commission on International Religious Freedom;
James Ziglar, Sr., former Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; and Kathleen Newland, Director of the Migrants,
Migration, and Development, and Refugee Policy Program, MPI.
April 30, 2009 Download HRF report
DHS and Immigration: Taking Stock and Correcting Course
Breakfast briefing and report release with Doris Meissner,
Senior Fellow and Director of US Immigration Policy Program, MPI, and Donald Kerwin, Vice President of Programs, MPI.
February 11, 2009 Download Report | View Powerpoint
Immigration and the Current Economic Crisis
Briefing and report release with Demetrios Papademetriou, MPI President; Michael Fix, Senior Vice President, MPI; Margie McHugh, Co-Director, MPI National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy; and Dilip Ratha, Senior Economist, World Bank.
January 14, 2009 Download Report
View Powerpoints: McHugh | Papademetriou
2008
Uneven Progress: The Employment Pathways of Skilled Immigrants in the United States
Report release with Jeanne Batalova, MPI Policy Analyst and Data Manager; Michael Fix, MPI Senior Vice President and Director of Studies; Jane Leu, Upwardly Global Executive Director and Founder; and Thomas E. Perez, Maryland Secretary of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation.
October 22, 2008 Download Report
View Powerpoints: Fix/Batalova | Leu
Finding and Using the Best Immigration Data Resources: A Seminar on Immigration Statistics
Data seminar with Elizabeth Grieco, Chief, Immigration Statistics, US Census Bureau; Mark Mather, Associate Vice President, Domestic Programs, Population Reference Bureau; Jeffrey Passel, Senior Research Associate, Pew Hispanic Center; Audrey Singer, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; and moderated by Jeanne Batalova, MPI Policy Analyst and Data Manager.
October 16, 2008 Download Guide
View Powerpoints: Grieco | Mather | Singer | Passel
Migrants to the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities
Book discussion with Marie Price and Lisa Benton-Short, book editors and Associate Professors at George Washington University, and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President.
July 15, 2008 View Powerpoint
Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age
Book discussion with Philip Kasinitz, Professor of Sociology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York; John H. Mollenkopf, Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Urban Research, The Graduate Center, City University of New York; Demetrios Papademetriou, President, MPI; and Tamar Jacoby, President, ImmigrationWorks USA.
June 24, 2008 Read Event Summary
5th Annual Immigration Law & Policy Conference
This conference offered law and policy analysis and discussion on cutting-edge immigration issues. Co-sponsored by MPI, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC),
and Georgetown University Law Center.
May 20, 2008 Watch Video
Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants
Book discussion with Jorge G. Castañeda, Mexico's Foreign Minister from 2000-2003 and author of Ex-Mex; Peter Hakim, Inter-American Dialogue; and Doris Meissner, MPI.
May 15, 2008
Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century
Breakfast briefing and book discussion with Dr. Philip Bobbitt, book author; John Brennan, former Director of the Terrorist Threat Integration Center; and Susan Ginsburg, MPI Mobility and Security Program Director. April 28, 2008
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa comes to MPI
Report release of Los Angeles on the Leading Edge: Immigrant Indicators and Their Policy Implications. Mayor Villaraigosa discusses his city's experience, and report authors Margie McHugh and Michael Fix provide an overview of their findings.
April 16, 2008 Download Report | View Powerpoint
The Iraqi Refugee Crisis: Law, Policy, and Practice
The Second Annual Matthew J. Ryan Forum on Law and Public Policy
Organized by Villanova University School of Law, and co-sponsored by MPI, Catholic Relief Services, Holland + Knight LLP, and Proskauer Rose LLP.
April 4, 2008 Watch Video
The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers and Celebration of César Chávez Day
Roundtable discussion with Irasema Garza, Working America, AFL-CIO; Bruce Goldstein, Farmworker Justice; Rick Nahmias, The Migrant Project; and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President. Followed by presentation of the photo exhibit and a reception.
Co-sponsored by MPI, Mexico Cultural Institute, Embassy of Mexico, Farmworker Justice, and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.
March 31, 2008
State Legislation and Local Ordinances Targeting Unauthorized Immigrants
Brownbag Luncheon with Omar C. Jadwat, American Civil Liberties Union, Immigrants' Rights Project; Laureen D. Laglagaron, MPI; and Cristina Rodríguez, New York University School of Law. Co-sponsored by the Migration Policy Institute, DC Bar Association, and DC Chapter American Immigration Lawyers Association.
March 14, 2008
Beyond Citizenship: American Identity After Globalization
Briefing with Peter J. Spiro, Charles Weiner Professor of Law at Temple University; Donald Kerwin, Executive Director of Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.; and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President.
March 5, 2008 View Powerpoint
Policies to Manage Migration
Breakfast briefing with Georges Lemaitre, International Migration Specialist, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labor and Social Affairs and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President.
February 7, 2008 View Powerpoint
Citizenship in Britain and the United States
Briefing with Lord Peter Goldsmith QC, the former Attorney General of Britain; T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Executive Vice President of Law Center Affairs and Dean of the Law Center, Georgetown University;
Alfonso Aguilar, Chief of the Office of Citizenship, US Citizenship and Immigration Services; Matthew Spalding, Director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies, The Heritage Foundation; and Demetrios Papademetriou, MPI President.
February 4, 2008 Read Event Summary
2007
A Framework for Assessing the Legality of State/Local Immigration Measures
Briefing and paper release with Muzaffar Chishti, Director, MPI's office at New York University School of Law; Laureen Laglagaron, Policy Analyst, MPI; Cristina Rodríguez, Associate Professor, New York University School of Law; and moderated by Michael Fix, Co-Director, MPI National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy.
December 13, 2007
The Fourth Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference
Keynote by Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law, US House of Representatives. Co-sponsored by MPI, Georgetown University Law Center, and Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC).
April 24, 2007 Read Event Summary
In-State College Tuition for Unauthorized Immigrants?: Leading Law Professors Debate at MPI
Debate between Kris W. Kobach, University of Missouri-Kansas City and Michael A. Olivas, University of Houston Law Center.
April 6, 2007
Responding to New Immigrants: What Structures are State and Local Governments Creating?
Briefing with Chung-Wha Hong, New York Immigration Coalition; Nick Johnson, Commission for Racial Equality; Charles Kamasaki, National Council of La Raza; and Demetrios Papademetriou, MPI President.
March 30, 2007
The New Age of Mobility: Managing Migration Locally, Nationally, and Internationally
MPI's Five-Year Anniversary Event.
March 21, 2007 View Agenda
Terrorism Legislation Affecting Refugees
Briefing with Eleanor Acer, Human Rights First; George Clark, Save the Montagnard People Inc.; and Luis Gilberto Murillo Urrutia, Senior Consultant, Lutheran World Relief, and former Governor of Choco, Colombia; and Doua Thor, Southeast Asia Resource Action Center.
March 9, 2007
MPI National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy Launch
Breakfast briefing with Michael Fix and Margie McHugh, Center Co-Directors; Jeanne Batalova, Data Manager, MPI Data Hub; Don Kerwin, Executive Director, CLINIC; Leighton Ku, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; Delia Pompa, Vice President of Education, National Council of La Raza; and Ruby Takanishi, President, Foundation for Child Development.
February 6, 2007
Promoting Success on Both Sides of the Border: Binational Approaches to US Immigrant Integration
DHS Assistant Secretary John Morton discusses his vision for ICE
Illegal Immigration's Effects on the US Economy and Policy
A New Proposal to Address US Immigration Future Flow Needs
E-Verify: An Assessment of its Strengths and Weaknesses
DHS and Immigration: Taking Stock and Correcting Course
