Language access policies and services are critical to promoting the equitable participation of Dual Language Learners and their families in early childhood programs, yet there are persisting participation gaps. This webinar will outline federal and state efforts to implement language access policies in the early childhood field, opportunities to improve language services, and more.
Integration policy is often forged in the heat of crises, with limited resources to make improvements along the way. As a result, lessons from promising innovations often get lost. Failure to embrace an evidence culture in migrant integration may come at a high human, financial, and societal cost, as this MPI Europe webinar organized as part of the HORIZON SPRING project will explore.
Marking the one-year withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, this webinar reflects on the humanitarian and development challenges in Afghanistan and for neighbors, the difficult choices facing aid donors, and what needs to be done to ensure at-risk Afghans can reach safety.
The conference featured fresh, thoughtful policy and legal analysis, and discussion of some of the top immigration issues by leading government officials, attorneys, policymakers, researchers, advocates, and other experts.
On this webinar, speakers examine how government strategies, practices, and instruments of integration policymaking have adapted during the pandemic both in Europe and North America, and what lessons there are for the future.
On this webinar, speakers discuss the main challenges faced by countries of origin and destination in ensuring mutual benefits through labor migration and strategies moving forward related to migration and development in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
A discussion on the Dutch, U.S., and international experiences in preventing human trafficking, with key U.S. and Dutch government officials involved in combating human trafficking.
A discussion on global cooperation efforts to strengthen the development impact of migration, with the Swedish Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy and the U.S. State Department's Director of the Office of Population and International Migration in the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, along with experts from U.S. public and private sectors.
A panel discussion and book launch with Maurice Crul, Professor of Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam; Jozef De Witte, Director, Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism; Michael Fix, Senior Vice President and Co-Director, National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, MPI; and Elizabeth Collett, Director, MPI Europe.
A discussion with Mexico’s Ambassador to the United States on the changing dynamics of Mexico’s economy, demographics, and large-scale emigration, and their implications for both Mexico and the United States.
The release of MPI's book Immigrants in a Changing Labor Market and discussion with Jason Furman, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Principal Deputy Director of the National Economic Council; Harry Holzer, Georgetown University Professor of Public Policy; and MPI's Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Madeleine Sumption, and Michael Fix.
