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Kathleen Newland is Co-Founder of the Migration Policy Institute and directs MPI's programs on Migrants, Migration, and Development and Comprehensive Protection for Refugees. Her work focuses on the relationship between migration and development, governance of international migration, and refugee protection. She is also the Founding Director of the International diaspora Engagement Alliance (IdEA), a partnership among MPI, the US State Department, and US Agency for International Development.
Previously, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, she was a Senior Associate and then Co-Director of the International Migration Policy Program (1994-2001). She sits on the Boards of the International Rescue Committee, the Foundation for The Hague Process on Migrants and Refugees, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and USA for UNHCR, and the Stimson Center. She is a Chair Emerita of the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children.
Prior to joining the Migration Program at the Carnegie Endowment in 1994, Ms. Newland worked as an independent consultant for such clients as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Bank, and the office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. From 1988-1992, Ms. Newland was on the faculty of the London School of Economics. During that time, she also co-founded (with Lord David Owen) and directed Humanitas, an educational trust dedicated to increasing awareness of international humanitarian issues. From 1982 to 1988, she worked at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan. She began her career at Worldwatch Institute in 1974.
Ms. Newland is the author or editor of eight books, including Developing a Road Map for Engaging Diasporas in Development:A Handbook for Policymakers and Practitioners in Home and Host Countries (MPI and International Organization for Migration, 2012); Diasporas: New Partners in Global Development Policy (MPI, 2010); No Refuge: The Challenge of Internal Displacement (United Nations, 2003); and The State of the World’s Refugees (UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 1993). She has also written 11 shorter monographs as well as numerous articles and book chapters.
Ms. Newland is a graduate of Harvard University and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. She did additional graduate work at the London School of Economics.
Representatives from a November 2010 trip to the region — Shaina Aber, Associate Advocacy Director for Jesuit Refugee Service/USA and Melanie Nezer, Senior Director for US Policy and Advocacy at the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society — present the findings from their trip, along with Andrea Lari, Regional Director at Refugees International. The event is moderated by Kathleen Newland, Director of MPI's Migrants, Migration, and Development, and Refugee Protection Programs.
Kathleen Newland joins Roberto Taxiera da Costa, Jorge Vergara, Congressman Jim Davis & Simon Rosenberg to discuss migration. Part 1
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The fifth round table of CIGI '11, which focused on “other issues and trans sector coordination,” is chaired by CIGI Vice President of Programs David Dewitt. Panelists included Sue Horton (CIGI Chair, Professor, University of Waterloo), Kathleen Newland (Director of Migrants, Migration, and Development and Refugee Protection Programs), Margaret Catley-Carlson (WEF Water Security Agenda Council: UN Secgen Advisory Board on Water), Debra Steger (CIGI Senior Fellow and Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa) and Shinichi Kitajima (Senior Associate Fellow of the Japan Institute of International Affairs).
This discussion, surrounding the release of the Migration Policy Institute's latest book, "Diasporas: New Partners in Global Development Policy," focuses on the role diasporas play in development efforts in their countries of origin. The discussion was moderated by the book's editor, Kathleen Newland, who directs MPI's program on Migrants, Migration, and Development; and speakers included Karen D. Turner, Director of the Office of Development Partners at the US Agency for International Development; and Thomás Debass, Regional Director, Global Partnership Initiative, Office of the US Secretary of State.
During the latest discussion in this MPI speaker’s series, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees T. Alexander Aleinikoff talks about voluntary repatriation, local integration, and resettlement. Panelists include Demetrios Papademetriou, MPI President, and Kathleen Newland, MPI Director of the Migrants, Migration, and Development, and Refugee Policy Programs.
This discussion focuses on a Migration Policy Institute report that examines the practices of labor recruiters managing the labor migration flow from the Philippines to the United Arab Emirates. The report also delves into the regulation of labor recruiters by the Philippine and UAE governments, finding room for significant improvement. Speakers at the briefing: report author Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias, MPI Policy Analyst; Luzviminda Padilla, Labor Attaché, Philippines Embassy in Washington; Jeni Klugman, Director, Human Development Report Office, United Nations Development Program; and Kathleen Newland, MPI Director of the Migrants, Migration, and Development Program. Download the report at migrationpolicy.org/pubs/FilipinoRecruitment-June2010.pdf
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