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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International Experience Suggests Safe Third-Country Agreement Would Not Solve the U.S.-Mexico Border Crisis
European experience shows safe third-country agreements are hard to enforce and rarely deter asylum seekers, making them an unlikely fix for the U.S.-Mexico border crisis.
Preparing for the Unknown: Designing effective predeparture orientation for resettling refugees
Well-designed predeparture orientation builds refugees' confidence and practical skills, laying a foundation for integration. But it cannot replace postarrival services.
Strengthening Refugee Protection in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
With 85 percent of the world's 25.4 million refugees in low- and middle-income countries as of 2017, development actors must help close critical protection gaps.
Three Things the European Union Can Do to Support Private Sponsorship for Refugees
Amid disagreement over the appropriate way to manage European borders and grant access to protection, private sponsorship of refugees may have a valuable role to play.
Europe Pushes to Outsource Asylum, Again
EU proposals for external asylum processing centres face serious legal, logistical, and humanitarian obstacles that leaders championing the idea have yet to resolve.
Moving Beyond “Root Causes”: The Complicated Relationship between Development and Migration
Development aid may spur emigration before reducing it. The evidence shows only structural economic and governance investment creates durable alternatives to leaving.
In Wake of Cuts to U.S. Refugee Program, Global Resettlement Falls Short
The Trump administration cut U.S. refugee admissions to a decade-low in fiscal year (FY) 2017, causing global resettlement numbers to drop to 40 percent of the prior year's total.
Engaging Communities in Refugee Protection: The potential of private sponsorship in Europe
Private refugee sponsorship can expand legal pathways to protection and improve integration, but European programmes must resolve three core design tensions to succeed.
Tracing the Channels Refugees Use to Seek Protection in Europe
Europe cannot reliably track how refugees arrive, but available data point to irregular entry as dominant and resettlement as covering only 1 in 10 protection decisions.
Weathering Crisis, Forging Ahead: Swedish Asylum and Integration Policy
Sweden's 2015 asylum surge buckled its reception system, and the border controls and benefit cuts that followed may undermine the immigrant integration they were meant to protect.
