E.g., 04/16/2024
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MPI-EUI Project

MPI-EUI Project

A Global Project on Improving the Capacity for Responding to Global Challenges

 
This project identified ways in which European and U.S. immigration systems can be substantially improved to address major challenges policymakers confront on both sides of the Atlantic, in the context of the current economic turmoil and in the longer term.
 
The project was funded by the European Union and directed at the Migration Policy Institute by Demetrios Papademetriou and at the European University Institute’s Migration Policy Center at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, by Philippe Fargues. Read the final report here.
 
The research focused on eight challenges policymakers face in the United States and Europe (view focus areas at right).

Recent Activity

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June 2011
New Streams: Black African Migration to the United States
By  Randy Capps, Kristen McCabe and Michael Fix
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Reports
June 2011
Opportunities for Transatlantic Cooperation on International Migration
By  Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Madeleine Sumption
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Reports
June 2011
Improving Immigrants' Employment Prospects through Work-Focused Language Instruction
By  Margie McHugh and A.E. Challinor
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Reports
June 2011
The Role of Civil Society in EU Migration Policy: Perspectives on the European Union's Engagement in its Neighborhood
By  Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan
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Reports
June 2011
Eight Policies to Boost the Economic Contribution of Employment-Based Immigration
By  Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Madeleine Sumption
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Reports
June 2011
Mexican and Central American Immigrants in the United States
By  Kate Brick, A.E. Challinor and Marc R. Rosenblum
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Reports
June 2011
Rethinking Points Systems and Employer-Selected Immigration
By  Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Madeleine Sumption
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Reports
May 2011
Immigrants in the United States: How Well Are They Integrating into Society?
By  Tomás R. Jiménez

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cover newstreams
Reports
June 2011
New Streams: Black African Migration to the United States
By  Randy Capps, Kristen McCabe and Michael Fix
cover transcoop
Reports
June 2011
Opportunities for Transatlantic Cooperation on International Migration
By  Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Madeleine Sumption
cover workLanguageinstruction
Reports
June 2011
Improving Immigrants' Employment Prospects through Work-Focused Language Instruction
By  Margie McHugh and A.E. Challinor
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Reports
June 2011
The Role of Civil Society in EU Migration Policy: Perspectives on the European Union's Engagement in its Neighborhood
By  Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan
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Reports
June 2011
Eight Policies to Boost the Economic Contribution of Employment-Based Immigration
By  Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Madeleine Sumption
cover MexCentAm
Reports
June 2011
Mexican and Central American Immigrants in the United States
By  Kate Brick, A.E. Challinor and Marc R. Rosenblum
Cover EUI Points
Reports
June 2011
Rethinking Points Systems and Employer-Selected Immigration
By  Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Madeleine Sumption
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Reports
May 2011
Immigrants in the United States: How Well Are They Integrating into Society?
By  Tomás R. Jiménez

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Recent Activity

Reports
June 2011

Opportunities for Transatlantic Cooperation on International Migration

The EU-U.S. relationship is one of the most significant partnerships among wealthy nations. Interconnections between the two on migration issues make dialogue necessary and inevitable, as each relies on each other to attain a number of policy objectives, most clearly in the case of travel and border security.

Reports
June 2011

New Streams: Black African Migration to the United States

This report explores the migration patterns and demographics of Black African immigrants in the United States, examining their admission channels, human-capital characteristics, and labor market performance. The authors also provide an analysis of these immigrants' integration prospects.

Reports
June 2011

Emerging Transatlantic Security Dilemmas in Border Management

The exponential growth of international travel since the 1960s has left border management systems worldwide struggling to keep up and has exposed weaknesses in states’ abilities to effectively manage their borders, especially regarding terrorist attacks, human trafficking, and illegal migration.

Reports
June 2011

The Role of Immigration in Fostering Competitiveness in the United States

While aspects of the U.S. immigration system facilitate newcomers’ contributions to economic growth and competitiveness, others undermine them. Reforms are needed to enhance the job-creating power of U.S. employers and strengthen the system’s ability to select effectively from the large pool of foreign workers.
Reports
June 2011

Migration and Development: Policy Perspectives from the United States

The report examines U.S. immigration and international development policies, which have unique objectives and respond to distinct political and administrative constraints, and points out that international development has never been a U.S. immigration policy objective; nonetheless, it is an unintended consequence.

Reports
June 2011

Rethinking Points Systems and Employer-Selected Immigration

Two competing models for selecting economic-stream immigrants are now prevalent in advanced industrialized economies: points-based and employer-led selection. Increasingly, however, hybrid selection systems are being created, implementing best practices from each selection process.
Reports
June 2011

Eight Policies to Boost the Economic Contribution of Employment-Based Immigration

Drawing on experiences from Asia, Europe, North America, and the Pacific region, this report presents eight strategies that represent best practices developed by immigrant-receiving countries to increase the economic contributions of immigration.
Reports
May 2011

Policies to Curb Unauthorized Employment

Illegal immigration is possible in large part because of illegal employment. This report shows the underlying drivers of illegal hiring vary based on the type of employer, the nature of the industry, state of the economy, and a country’s labor market institutions, employment legislation, immigration systems, and even culture.

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