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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Taking Stock of Refugee Resettlement: Policy objectives, practical tradeoffs, and the evidence base
Refugee resettlement programmes lack clear goals, evaluation traditions, and cost data. These gaps must be closed if growing state commitments are to be targeted and effective.
Dawn of New Migration Reality Brings Focus on Borders, Returns, and Integration
Frontline host countries are recalibrating borders, returns, and integration approaches to sustain strained protection systems amid large migrant flows.
Beyond Care and Maintenance: Rebuilding Hope and Opportunity for Refugees (Transatlantic Council Statement)
The global "care and maintenance" model fails most displaced people. Solutions require expanded support, self-reliance opportunities, and investment in host countries.
Building Livelihood Opportunities for Refugee Populations: Lessons from Past Practice
Refugee livelihood programs hold real promise but underperform due to poor context mapping, weak coordination, insufficient evaluation, and chronic underfunding.
Global Refugee Summits Offer Reasons for Both Disappointment and Hope
UN and U.S.-led refugee summits in September 2016 produced real but modest funding and resettlement pledges, deferring a binding responsibility-sharing compact to 2018.
No Way Out? Making additional migration channels work for refugees
Global displacement has outpaced traditional durable solutions such as resettlement. Legal labour, education, and family channels offer underutilised paths to refugee self-sufficiency.
Displacement Reaches Record High as Wars Continue and New Conflicts Emerge
Record global displacement neared 60 million as outflows from Syria, South Sudan, Yemen, and elsewhere burdened developing host countries.
Europe’s Migration Crisis in Context: Why Now and What Next?
As Europe struggles to reach a consensus on how to respond to the refugee crisis, the seemingly unending flow of migrants and refugees arriving on its shores is bringing national asylum systems to their breaking point. This article analyzes the context of the crisis, discussing the root causes of the flows, why they are spiking now, and growing protection challenges.
The Integration Outcomes of U.S. Refugees: Successes and Challenges
U.S. refugees become self-sufficient over time, but growing diversity and low literacy among recent arrivals strain a system with flat funding and focus on rapid employment.
EU Dublin Asylum System Faces Uncertain Future after Ruling in Afghan Family’s Case
A 2014 ruling in an Afghan family's case could shake the foundations of the European Union's Dublin asylum system and intensify calls for reform.
