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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A Work in Progress: Prospects for Upward Mobility Among New Immigrants in Germany
New immigrants in Germany made consistent gains over time but never closed the employment gap with natives and remained concentrated in low-skilled jobs throughout the 2000s.
How Migration Can Advance Development Goals (Transatlantic Council Statement)
Migration produces powerful development gains that policymakers underuse. Cooperation on reducing remittance costs and improving skills recognition is the most viable way forward.
Migration of Health Workers: The WHO Code of Practice and the Global Economic Crisis
Health worker migration fell in major destination countries around 2008, but immigrant health professionals proved more resilient to the global economic crisis than other workers.
Moving Up the Ladder? Labor Market Outcomes in the United Kingdom amid Rising Immigration
UK immigrants entered work rapidly after 2004 and made gains over time, but remained concentrated in low-skilled jobs despite higher-than-native education levels.
The Global Forum on Migration and Development: Perspectives from Asia and the Pacific
Asia-Pacific governments have shaped the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) since 2007. But the Forum must now shift to action on recruitment costs, data, and gender-responsive policies.
Slow Motion: The Labor Market Integration of New Immigrants in France
France's labor market is forbidding to new immigrants. And even after nine years, employment rates remain more than 10 percentage points below those of native workers.
The 2014 Global Forum on Migration and Development: Setting the Agenda for International Cooperation
A call/webinar focused the 2014 Global Forum on Migration and Development: its agenda, the policy areas that seem ripe for action, and what impact the discussions will have on the post-2015 development agenda.
Migration and the Great Recession: A Keynote Lecture
This German Historical Institute keynote lecture, organized together with the Migration Policy Institute, is part of the conference Migration during Economic Downturns—from the Great Depression to the Great Recession. The event will begin with a reception.
Catching Up: The Labor Market Outcomes of New Immigrants in Sweden
Refugees and family arrivals to Sweden gain ground over time but never close the employment gap with natives, facing structural barriers that education cannot fully explain.
Human Rights, Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Migration: A New Paradigm
Discussion at launch of this MPI-IOM Issue in Brief, Human Rights, Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Migration: A New Paradigm, which focuses on the vulnerability of environmental migrants and how the international legal framework can better ensure their protection, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.
