Global Program
The Global Program acts as a policy laboratory for innovative, evidence-based, and politically feasible solutions to migration policy challenges. From direct policy advice to deep comparative research, its work interrogates policy design and effectiveness, helps countries newer to immigration learn from innovation and evidence in other regions, and anticipates how demographic, economic, and technological shifts will reshape migration in the years ahead. It supports governments in responding to crises with greater coordination and foresight, and provides a trusted off-the-record space for engaging with sensitive topics. Its main geographical focus is Europe, the Americas, and Australia, but it increasingly works with governments and other partners worldwide, including in East Africa and Asia. For more on the Global Program, click here.
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How Europe Was Transformed by the 2015-16 Migration and Refugee Crisis
Ten years after the 2015-16 migration and refugee crisis, the European Union has reshaped its process for dividing up asylum claims and controlling…
The Shifting Financing of Responses to Venezuelan Displacement
Financing for Latin American responses to Venezuelan displacement has changed over the years, and new approaches are needed in light of foreign aid…
Migration Diplomacy in an Age of Transactionalism
As international cooperation frays, balanced diplomacy—rather than coercive dealmaking—promises the most effective approach to emerging migration…
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Key Statistics
International migrants comprise 3.7 percent of the global population. Learn more about them
304 million
The number of migrants globally in 2024
50.6 million
The number who as of 2025 were refugees or asylum seekers
94 million
The number of international migrants in Europe—the top destination globally
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In the Age of Trump: Populist Backlash and Progressive Resistance Create Divergent State Immigrant Integration Contexts
U.S. states are diverging sharply on enforcement, health access, and education in response to federal immigration changes, widening integration gaps for immigrants and refugees.
Beyond Stock-Taking: The Path Ahead to a Global Compact for Migration
On this webinar, representatives from the office of the UN Special Representative for International Migration and the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development joined MPI for a discussion on the outcomes and developments from the stocktaking meeting of the preparatory process towards the Global Compact for Migration.
EU Migration Partnerships: A work in progress
The European Union's 2016 Migration Partnership Framework is a step forward. But a deep mismatch between EU goals and partner-country interests threatens its effectiveness.
Building Partnerships to Respond to the Next Decade’s Migration Challenges (Transatlantic Council Statement)
Migration partnerships are growing in scale but remain mixed in results. Destination countries must look beyond short-term enforcement to build durable cooperation.
Life Beyond Brexit: How are negotiations faring over rights for UK citizens in the European Union?
As the European Council and the UK government gear up to move onto the next phase of Brexit negotiations, this webinar focuses on the rights of the approximately 1 million UK citizens living in the European Union who could see their futures significantly reshaped in a post-Brexit world.
Beyond Transactional Deals: Building lasting migration partnerships in the Mediterranean
Migration partnerships built on shared objectives and legal channels—such as the Spain-Morocco arrangement—prove far more durable than enforcement-first transactional deals.
From Forced Migration to Forced Returns in Afghanistan: Policy and Program Implications
Forced returns to Afghanistan are rising despite ongoing conflict, and high re-emigration rates suggest that narrowly economic reintegration programs are not working.
Safe or Sorry? Prospects for Britons in the European Union after Brexit
UK nationals living elsewhere in the European Union face legal, labour-market, and social security challenges after Brexit that are likely to persist regardless of whether a deal is reached.
The Global Compact for Migration: How Does Development Fit In?
The 2018 Global Compact for Migration offers a chance to turn migration-development commitments into action, with issue-specific state coalitions the most realistic path.
Legal Channels for Refugee Protection in Europe: A pivotal moment for strategic thinking
Following the release of the mid-term review of the European Agenda on Migration, this webinar offers insights from EU Member States on how existing, new, and untapped legal pathways interact with other humanitarian policies, and fit into a larger protection strategy.
