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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Shortage Amid Surplus: Emigration and Human Capital Development in the Philippines
The Philippines' labor export policy has fueled remittances but also has created domestic skill shortages in STEM, medicine, and aviation.
The Changing Face of Emigration: Harnessing the Potential of the New Greek Diaspora
Greece's post-2008 emigration is dominated by highly educated youth. This reality suggests the need for new diaspora strategies and structural reforms.
Welcoming Engagement: How private sponsorship can strengthen refugee resettlement in the European Union
Private sponsorship could substantially expand EU refugee resettlement and generate the political will that governments alone have failed to muster.
Addressing the Implications of the Emigration of Skilled and Educated Europeans
A discussion on how governments and societies can retain their most valuable workers, turn emigration challenges into opportunities, and capture more of emigration's potential benefits.
Rethinking Emigration: Turning Challenges into Opportunities (Transatlantic Council Statement)
European countries losing skilled workers cannot simply prevent departures but must invest in structural reforms and diaspora engagement to recapture that human capital.
Transatlantic Symposium Report: Improving Instruction for Immigrant and Refugee Students in Secondary Schools
Immigrant and refugee students in secondary schools in Europe and the United States leave early at disproportionate rates. Stronger teacher training and coherent policy design could help close the gap.
The Southeast Asia-Australia Regional Migration System: Some Insights into the “New Emigration”
The Australia-Southeast Asia migration system is far more multidirectional and complex than the standard destination-sending country framing suggests.
The Re-Emergence of Emigration from Ireland: New Trends in An Old Story
Post-2008 Irish emigration is dominated by young, university-educated graduates, in contrast to past outflows of unskilled workers. This raises real concerns about brain drain.
Young Refugee Children: Their Schooling Experiences in the United States and in Countries of First Asylum
The authors of three MPI papers present their findings on the experiences of refugee children, including Syrian childen in first-asylum countries and Somali Bantu refugees resettled in the United States, and the impacts on their mental health and education.
What's Next for the European Asylum Crisis?
An MPI Europe video chat on the emerging role of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) in the current EU refugee crisis and its track record during its first five years, along with what strategies Europe ought to be pursuing with regards to its response.
