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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Strengthening Labour Market Integration of Immigrants in Europe: Innovative ways to prepare migrants before departure
A discussion in Brussels examining how useful existing predeparture measures are in facilitating migrants’ labor market insertion, examples of structural cooperation between origin and EU destination countries, and successful private-sector practices.
Improving Migrants' Labour Market Integration in Europe from the Outset: A cooperative approach to predeparture measures
Predeparture integration measures have underperformed because origin and destination countries rarely coordinate their design, undermining labor market outcomes.
Supporting Immigrant Integration in Europe: What role for origin countries' subnational authorities?
Origin-country subnational authorities can support immigrant integration in Europe, but their reach is limited by inadequate devolved powers and financial constraints.
Migrant Education and Community Inclusion: Examples of good practice
Family and community involvement in schools is essential for migrant student integration, and a range of European good practices show how to build those bridges effectively.
Reducing the Risk that Youth with a Migrant Background in Europe Will Leave School Early
Migrant youth left school early in EU countries at more than double the native rate in 2012, and structural reforms, not language support alone, are needed to close the gap.
The Field of Migration Studies Loses a Giant: Graeme Hugo
In a personal tribute, MPI President Emeritus Demetrios G. Papademetriou reflects on the life and career of Graeme Hugo, a world-renowned scholar who died in January 2015.
A ‘Freer’ Flow of Skilled Labour within ASEAN: Aspirations, Opportunities, and Challenges in 2015 and Beyond
A breakfast briefing discussing the transformation of the ASEAN region into a single market and production base, including the steps that can be taken towards fuller labor mobility for high-skilled migrants.
Protection at Sea: Addressing Irregular Maritime Migration
More than 3,000 people died crossing the Mediterranean in 2014, exposing the tangled legal, humanitarian, and enforcement challenges of irregular maritime migration.
A ‘Freer’ Flow of Skilled Labour within ASEAN: Aspirations, Opportunities, and Challenges in 2015 and Beyond
ASEAN's freer skilled labor flow aspiration is undermined by low-skilled migration dominance, irregular flows, and weak political will to adapt domestic regulations.
Better Work for Immigrants: Tackling joblessness and stunted progression in the European Union
This day-long conference in Brussels, co-sponsored by the International Labour Office and the European Commision’s Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion, focuses on the dynamics by which migrants get stuck in low-skilled work, and the role of training and employment services in helping them progress in their occupations.
