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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Population Aging Is Here. Immigration Can Offer Half an Answer.
Immigration on its own cannot solve population aging, but five policy principles can help it play a more effective role in a broader demographic…
Creating Inclusive Urban Economies for Migrants and Refugees
Cities hold powerful levers to turn migrants' and refugees' underused talent into economic growth—but doing so requires moving beyond first…
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Key Statistics
International migrants comprise 3.7 percent of the global population. Learn more about them
304.0 million
The number of migrants globally in 2024
50.6 million
The number who as of 2025 were refugees or asylum seekers
94.0 million
The number of international migrants in Europe—the top destination globally
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Europe’s Migration Crisis: A status report and the way forward
A discussion with the President of MPI Europe, Demetrios Papademetriou, on the current policy responses to the refugee crisis at EU and national levels, and possible future responses that can deal more effectively with the crisis and longer-term integration challenges.
Scaling Up Resettlement: The role of private sponsorship programmes in addressing the refugee crisis
A webinar discussing how private sponsorship programmes for refugees, used by Canada and a handful of other countries, could alleviate some of the pressure from the European refugee crisis, by allowing individuals, groups, businesses, and other entities to sponsor individual refugees for resettlement. Discussion includes findings and analysis from a MPI Europe report.
Asylum Application Totals for Select EU Destinations
The number of asylum seekers entering Europe surged in the wake of the ongoing Syrian civil war and other conflicts around the world.
Getting the Balance Right: Strengthening asylum reception capacity at national and EU levels
EU asylum reception demands simultaneous flexibility, efficiency, and quality, and when any Member State fails to maintain all three, the effects cascade across the bloc.
Achieving Skill Mobility in the ASEAN Economic Community: Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Implications
The ASEAN's skilled-labor mobility goal is far from reality, blocked by credential recognition barriers, national restrictions, and professionals' reluctance to move within the region.
Reaching a “Fair Deal” on Talent: Emigration, Circulation, and Human Capital in Countries of Origin
Most skilled-migration programs certify credentials without providing mentoring or connections for newcomers, leaving much of the potential benefit to origin countries unrealized.
Emigration Trends and Policies in China: Movement of the Wealthy and Highly Skilled
China's high-skilled outflows are accelerating as low-skilled emigration stagnates, with government reforms inadvertently deepening that divide.
Emigration from Portugal: Old Wine in New Bottles?
Portugal's post-2008 emigration is old wine in new bottles: predominantly low-skilled, as before, and rooted in structural failures no diaspora policy can fix.
The Germany-Turkey Migration Corridor: Refitting Policies for a Transnational Age
Migration along the Germany-Turkey corridor has become circular and transnational—a shift both governments should embrace.
Focusing on Protection: Previewing upcoming high-level fora on migration
A webinar with the UN Secretary-General's special representative on migration and the former UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees previewing upcoming high-level humanitarian protection and migration summits, focusing on what tangible results might occur.
