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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shortage Amid Surplus: Emigration and Human Capital Development in the Philippines
A breakfast briefing to launch the Issue in Brief, Shortage amid Surplus: Emigration and Human Capital Development in the Philippines, that reviews the impacts of the Philippines' successful labor export policy on skills development and human capital growth within the country.
Leadership Visions: A Discussion with Mexican Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz-Massieu
An MPI Leadership Visions discussion with the Foreign Minister of Mexico, Claudia Ruiz-Massieu, for her first public appearance in Washington, DC.
Reception and Reintegration Services in Central America: Ending the Deportee Revolving Door
A webinar releasing a report examining deportations to Central America and reception and reintegration services in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
Investor Visa Programs: Examining their Utility, Challenges, and Successes
A discussion on the U.S. EB-5 program, the motivations underpinning recent changes to other investor visa programs in North America, Europe, and elsewhere, and the implications for the future direction of these programs.
