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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.
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.
Syrian Immigrants in the United States
The Syrian immigrant population in the United States doubled to 122,000 during the Syrian civil war, which raged from 2011 into 2024. Still, Syrians were less than 0.5 percent of all U.S. immigrants.
Why Is Immigration Policy So Hard to Get Right?
Can immigration policy ever balance economic, humanitarian, and social goals in a way that publics find fair and credible?
Meeting Labour Skill Needs While Expanding Refugee Protection
Labour migration can be a way for qualified refugees to access protection in Europe while meeting destination countries' skill needs. How governments can make work visas more accessible to refugees?
Ethiopia Crafts a Roadmap for Refugee Inclusion amid Global Aid Cuts
Ethiopia's Makatet framework offers a promising model for refugee inclusion, but funding gaps and the exclusion of tens of thousands of Eritreans reveal its limits.
Beyond “Shock and Awe”: Immigration Actions in the First Year under Trump 2.0
Analysts assessed the sweeping immigration enforcement actions, executive orders, and legal challenges marking Trump's second term's first year.
Unleashing Power in New Ways: Immigration in the First Year of Trump 2.0
The Trump second-term immigration overhaul—500-plus policy actions in the first year, record enforcement, and sweeping legal rollbacks—is reshaping who is welcome in America.
Refugees and Asylees in the United States
U.S. refugee and asylum programs faced record-low resettlement ceilings and sweeping rollbacks of temporary protections in 2026 as global displacement neared an all-time high.
