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The Post-Pandemic Ascent: The Role of Migration in Emerging from the Economic and Labor Market Turmoil
This discussion with MPI and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) examines the impact of the coronavirus on migration and mobility systems, and highlights findings from OECD’s International Migration Outlook 2020 on recent developments in migration movements and policies.
An Early Readout on the Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis: Immigrant Women Have the Highest Unemployment
Immigrant women in the United States faced the steepest job losses in the COVID-19 recession, with unemployment peaking at 18.5 percent in May 2020.
Building Welcome from the Ground up: European small and rural communities engaging in refugee resettlement
Small and rural European communities are increasingly resettling refugees and can do so successfully with tailored support and sustained coordination with national programmes.
Managing the Pandemic and Its Aftermath: Economies, Jobs, and International Migration in the Age of COVID-19
Global migration fell 46 percent in the first half of 2020. This report examines the COVID-19 pandemic's economic toll on migration systems and paths toward recovery.
Navigating the Future of Work: The Role of Immigrant-Origin Workers in the Changing U.S. Economy
Immigrant-origin workers drove 83 percent of U.S. labor force growth from 2010 to 2018 and face similar automation and job-decline risks as their native-born peers.
Will International Migration Governance Survive the COVID-19 Pandemic?
COVID-19 exposed flaws in migration governance. The 2018 Global Compact for Migration provides a framework for crisis response and rebuilding lost livelihoods.
Broad and Blunt, the Trump Administration’s H-1B Changes Miss the Opportunity for Real Reform
The Trump administration's changes to the H-1B visa program are the most significant in three decades, promising to end the practice of replacing U.S. workers with highly skilled immigrants. While the problems the administration has identified and the interest in protecting U.S. workers are legitimate ones, its approach may cripple the H-1B program itself, as this commentary explains.
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.
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.
The Digital Divide Hits U.S. Immigrant Households Disproportionately during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Immigrants are disproportionately caught on the wrong side of the digital divide, a gap made clear by the COVID-19 pandemic.
