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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 Future for Cuban Migrants?
María José Espinosa Carrillo, Executive Director of the Center for Engagement and Advocacy in the Americas (CEDA), analyzes potential future migration patterns from Cuba as the United States closes its door.
Nigeria Aims to Capitalize on Regional Integration amid Evolving Emigration Patterns
Nigeria is simultaneously a major destination for West African migrants and a source of growing emigration due to domestic factors including insecurity and unemployment.
On Shifting Sands in Africa’s Sahel Region: Tensions between Security and Free Movement
Security coups, EU border externalization, and ECOWAS fractures are reshaping Sahel migration governance, leaving millions displaced and northward routes more dangerous.
Slipping through the Cracks in South Korea: The Uncertain Futures for the Children of North Korean Defectors
Children born in China to North Korean mothers are a fast-growing but legally overlooked population in South Korea, falling outside defector support programs.
Small Boats, Big Stakes: Options for a UK-EU deal on migration and asylum
Small boat crossings to the United Kingdom have surged since 2018; a post-Brexit readmissions deal with the EU, paired with managed pathways, could help address them.
Severe Repression in Eritrea Has Prompted Decades of Exodus
Decades of repression and indefinite forced conscription have driven up to one-third of Eritreans abroad. Still, many have few options for safe refuge.
21st Annual Immigration Law & Policy Conference
Featuring keynotes by IOM Director General Amy Pope, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, this conference examined competing U.S. immigration narratives, the global smuggling economy, immigration executive orders and litigation, and more.
Turkey Aims to Halt Irregular Migration and Migrant Smuggling in the Eastern Mediterranean
Turkey sits at the crossroads of busy irregular migration routes, where criminal smuggling networks profit from movement that neither border walls nor EU deals have stopped.
Rocking the (Small) Boat: Novel Options to Tackle Irregular Migration to the United Kingdom
With UK voters headed to the polls on July 4, one thing is clear: Whatever party wins the election will face the ongoing challenges of addressing irregular arrivals by boat and growing asylum claims. But this could also be an opportunity for novel policy approaches and collaboration with international partners in Europe and beyond, this commentary argues.
