Ireland

Using Evidence to Improve Refugee Resettlement: A monitoring and evaluation road map

European resettlement programmes lack robust monitoring and evaluation systems. This road map offers steps to build evidence-based frameworks that improve refugee outcomes.

Measuring Up? Using monitoring and evaluation to make good on the promise of refugee sponsorship

COVID-19 disruptions offered policymakers a timely opening to build monitoring and evaluation systems to strengthen and scale refugee sponsorship programmes.

Refugee Sponsorship Programmes: A global state of play and opportunities for investment

As refugee resettlement falls globally, private investment in sponsorship programmes can catalyse new pathways and sustain existing ones.

The Emerging Crisis: Is Famine Returning as a Major Driver of Migration?

After decades of decline, famine returned to the planet in 2017 and 2018, yet research on the famine-migration nexus remains critically scarce.

The End of the Retirement Dream? British pensioners in the European Union after Brexit

Brexit put roughly 229,000 British pensioners in EU Member States at risk of pension stagnation, higher taxes, and health-care loss, with lifestyle retirees most vulnerable.

European Immigrants in the United States

European immigrants in 2014 formed a shrinking share of U.S. arrivals, yet stood out for tending to be older, highly educated, and high earners.

The Re-Emergence of Emigration from Ireland: New Trends in An Old Story

Post-2008 Irish emigration is dominated by young, university-educated graduates, in contrast to past outflows of unskilled workers. This raises real concerns about brain drain.

Migration and the Great Recession: The Transatlantic Experience

Immigrant Integration in Europe in a Time of Austerity

Across Europe, immigrant integration policies and budgets diverged after the financial crisis, shaped by national politics and broad austerity pressures.

When All Else Fails, Leave: Emigration from Europe's New Destinations on the Rise

Ireland recorded the European Union's highest net emigration rate in 2009, with 34,500 net departures in the year ending April 2010.