Madeleine Sumption
Madeleine Sumption is a former Senior Policy Analyst and Director of Research for MPI's International Program. She remains a Nonresident Fellow with Migration Policy Institute Europe. Her work focuses on labor migration, the role of immigrants in the labor market, and the impact of immigration policies in Europe, North America, and other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. Ms. Sumption holds a master’s degree with honors from the University of Chicago’s school of public policy. She also holds a first class degree in Russian and French from Oxford University.
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Faced with a Growing Global Talent Pool, Governments Review their Strategies
Competing for skilled talent post-recession, governments are modifying immigration policies while tackling "brain waste.”
Skilled Immigrants in the Global Economy: Prospects for International Cooperation on Recognition of Foreign Qualifications
Mutual recognition agreements reduce credential barriers for skilled immigrants, but professional autonomy and political fragmentation limit their scope and reach.
Attracting and Selecting from the Global Talent Pool — Policy Challenges
Winning skilled immigrants demands coherent strategy across visa design, infrastructure, integration, and credential recognition—no single policy can substitute for the others.
Tackling Brain Waste: Strategies to Improve the Recognition of Immigrants’ Foreign Qualifications
Foreign professionals remain excluded from licensed occupations by real skills gaps—not just poor information—demanding more affordable and flexible retraining in immigrant-receiving countries.
Remaking the U.S. Green Card System: Legal Immigration under the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013
The Senate's 2013 comprehensive immigration reform bill would grow skills-based green cards nearly fourfold while preserving family admissions.
Legal Immigration Policies for Low-Skilled Foreign Workers
The near-absence of U.S. legal low-skilled work visas drives unauthorized immigration. Designing a new program raises fiercely contested questions on wages and portability.
The Economic Value of Citizenship for Immigrants in the United States
Naturalized U.S. citizens earn up to 70 percent more than noncitizens, yet cost and language barriers leave an estimated 8 million eligible immigrants without citizenship.
Visas for Entrepreneurs: How Countries Are Seeking Out Immigrant Job Creators
Entrepreneur visas have spread across the industrialized world, but identifying who will succeed is difficult and programs have admitted a relatively small number of people per year.
Shared Challenges and Opportunities for EU and U.S. Immigration Policymakers
Despite institutional differences, EU and U.S. policymakers confront shared migration challenges and openings for mutual learning.
