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Criminalization of Search-and-Rescue Operations in the Mediterranean Has Been Accompanied by Rising Migrant Death Rate
As the European Union criminalized search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean, migrant death rates more than doubled.
Rethinking the U.S.-Mexico Border Immigration Enforcement System: A Policy Road Map
This road map urges restructuring U.S.-Mexico border enforcement into an enduring function, marrying effective border security with fair, humane enforcement and increased cooperation.
The U.S. Presidential Campaign Cements Political Parties’ Deepening Schism on Immigration
The 2020 U.S. presidential campaign crystallized two decades of partisan drift on immigration, with a sharp divide on belief about immigrants’ contributions to the country.
The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum—A Bold Move to Avoid the Abyss?
The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum represents a last-gasp effort by European leaders to devise a plan that keeps all 27 countries at the table, at a time when growing numbers are refusing to accept asylum seekers under the existing redistribution mechanism. Can the pact’s concept of solidarity à la carte work? The pact may well be the last step before an abyss in which each country determines the fate of migrants and refugees, practically guaranteeing future conflict.
Greece Struggles to Balance Competing Migration Demands
The Greek government promised "strict but fair" migration reforms, but asylum backlogs grew, conditions in refugee camps deteriorated, and reports of unlawful pushbacks mounted.
17th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference
This year’s Immigration Law and Policy Conference examines the immigration policy agenda under the Trump administration, including changes in the asylum system; the vast societal upheaval brought on by COVID-19 and the rising racial justice movement; what the future of U.S. immigration may look like; and many other topics in advance of a consequential general election that offers starkly different choices with respect to U.S. immigration policy.
The U.S. Immigration Policymaker-in-Chief: The Long History of Executive Authority over Immigration
This discussion examines the long tradition of the U.S. president as immigration policymaker in chief, the Trump administration’s substantial use of executive power to change the country’s course on immigration, and how the president’s role in immigration policy is a inevitability that should be carefully considered and reimagined in any blueprint for immigration reform or strategy for activism on immigration.
Gaps in India’s Treatment of Refugees and Vulnerable Internal Migrants Are Exposed by the Pandemic
India's COVID-19 lockdown exposed deep policy challenges for millions of internal migrants and 250,000 refugees and asylum seekers.
Driving Migrant Inclusion through Social Innovation: Lessons for cities in a pandemic
Social innovations pioneered by European cities after the 2015–16 migration crisis offer key lessons for advancing migrant inclusion during and after COVID-19.
Greece’s Moria Tragedy: The crash test for the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum
The fires that devastated the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos have further raised the stakes for the soon-to-be unveiled EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. If Moria persists as a concept—with asylum seekers prevented from onward movement elsewhere in Europe—this becomes an integral pillar of future EU asylum practice, whatever is written on paper, as this commentary explores.
