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New Country, New Name? Migrants Navigate Tradeoffs
Migrants’ choices about whether to change their name reflect competing pressures to fit in with the new society and maintain ties to identity, family, and cultural heritage.
Southern Africa’s Migration Integration Is Undermined by Rising Tensions and Changing Trends
Southern Africa’s migration patterns are straining existing governance systems.
Thailand Accepts Its Status as a Migrant Hub, but Workers Face Precarious Conditions
Thailand relies on migrant workers but grants them only temporary, constrained status that has entrenched their social and economic marginalization.
What Drives Refugees’ High Poverty in the Early Years after U.S. Resettlement?
In their initial years after arrival, resettled refugees have high poverty rates despite strong employment, reflecting structural barriers and the focus on self-sufficiency.
West African Countries Offer Citizenship to Descendants of Enslaved Africans
West African governments are offering citizenship to descendants of enslaved Africans and other diaspora members as both a symbolic act of reparative justice and a practical strategy to attract investment, skills, and tourism.
Refugees in the City: How Humanitarian Migration Transforms Urban Areas
Refugees reshape cities; they may strain services in the short term but offer long-run potential for new economic, civic, and demographic vitalization depending on responses by local leaders.
España y América Latina siguen caminos divergentes en materia de regularización
El proceso de regularización de 2026 en España recibió cerca de 1,2 millones de solicitudes, aun cuando muchos países latinoamericanos han dado marcha atrás en medidas similares para los venezolanos.
Spain and Latin America Take Diverging Paths on Regularization
Spain’s 2026 regularization drew nearly 1.2 million applications, even as many Latin American countries have pulled back from similar measures for Venezuelans.
Countries Are Pushing Borders Outward to Expand Deterrence and Protection Alike
Externalization—the enlistment of partner countries to manage migration before people arrive or assist with removals and returns—has shifted from the policy fringe into the mainstream. Models range from deterrence to protection.
From Temporary Climate-Induced Displacement to Permanent Urban Settlement in Pakistan
Pakistan's climate disasters have driven permanent urban resettlement to Karachi, rather than mass cross-border migration.
