Susan Fratzke
Susan Fratzke is a Senior Policy Analyst with MPI’s Global Program, based in Germany, where she conducts comparative research on asylum policy, forced migration, and refugee resettlement and complementary pathways.
Ms. Fratzke has authored or contributed to numerous reports assessing the role of refugee pathways and sponsorship in addressing humanitarian needs and displacement. Her work conceptualizing the role of sponsorship in developing humanitarian pathways has been widely cited internationally in research and policy documents.
She also leads work on national asylum systems and the role of international and regional cooperation in maintaining access to protection in response to cross-border humanitarian displacement. She managed an MPI-Robert Bosch Stiftung initiative that examined ways to strengthen national asylum systems worldwide. She has also been a core contributor to MPI’s longstanding work on the Common European Asylum System (CEAS).
Ms. Fratzke has worked for the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration in Brussels and Washington, DC, and as a coordinator for an adult literacy program serving resettled refugees in Minnesota. She holds an MA in German and European studies, with a concentration in European migration policy, from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She also earned a certificate in refugees and humanitarian emergencies from the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown.
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The Challenges of Humanitarian Protection in the 21st Century
Could private sponsorship programs, refugee labor visas, and the Global Compact on Refugees scale fast enough to offset the political forces working to shut refugees out?
Opening More Avenues for Protection for Refugees
From a global review of refugee resettlement and complementary pathway programs, experts offered recommendations on how stakeholders can most effectively support the growth of resettlement and complementary pathways.
Refugee Resettlement and Complementary Pathways: Opportunities for growth
Resettlement reaches fewer than 1 percent of refugees annually. To scale protection, labor, education, and sponsorship pathways are being used but face persistent barriers.
A Bridge to Firmer Ground: Learning from International Experiences to Support Pathways to Solutions in the Syrian Refugee Context
This report draws on international cases to highlight models that could expand Syrian refugees’ access to protection, social safety nets, and education.
The Next Generation of Refugee Resettlement in Europe: Ambitions for the future and how to realise them
Europe now resettles nearly half of all refugees globally and must leverage its growing capacity to build ambitious, evidence-driven programmes, despite COVID-19 disruptions.
When Emergency Measures Become the Norm: Post-coronavirus prospects for the Schengen zone
Most EU Member States closed their borders to travel from neighboring countries in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. While internal borders in the Schengen zone largely reopened in time for summer holidays, there is a lingering sense they could snap shut anew. Though the reflexive introduction of border controls speaks to an inherent lack of trust between states, the 2015-16 migration crisis offers lessons on how to begin to rebuild trust, as this commentary explores.
Coronavirus Is Spreading across Borders, But It Is Not a Migration Problem
Travel bans, border closures, and other migration management tools did not prove effective at blocking COVID-19 from spreading across international borders. Yet as governments have shifted from containment to mitigation with the coronavirus now in community transmission in many countries, these restrictions are a logical part of the policy toolkit in the context of social distancing and restricting all forms of human movement, as this commentary explores.
The Future of Refugee Resettlement: Made in Europe?
Europe's refugee resettlement capacity has grown dramatically, with resettlement places more than doubling since 2014, even as European countries have become an emerging center for innovation. As Europe accounts for a rising share of resettlement worldwide, will European policymakers claim a leadership role in shaping the global resettlement agenda or fall into this position by default?
Refugee Sponsorship Programmes: A global state of play and opportunities for investment
As refugee resettlement falls globally, private investment in sponsorship programmes can catalyse new pathways and sustain existing ones.
Volunteers and Sponsors: A Catalyst for Refugee Integration?
Volunteers and sponsors can powerfully complement refugee integration services, but effective engagement requires dedicated funding, training, and policy support.
