Eleanor Sohnen was a Policy Analyst at MPI, where she worked for the Regional Migration Study Group. Her research interests include the interaction of source-country education and workforce systems and migration, and the social and economic integration of intraregional labor migrants in Latin America.
Ms. Sohnen previously served as a consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), implementing workforce development and capacity-building projects in public employment services and migration management. While at IDB, she co-authored Crossing Borders for Work: New Trends and Policies in Labor Migration in Latin America and the Caribbean, On the Other Side of the Fence: Changing Dynamics of Migration in the Americas (MPI, 2010), and The Financial Crisis and Latin American and Caribbean Labor Markets: Risks and Policy Responses (IDB, 2009).