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The Points System Is Dead, Long Live the Points System
A new generation of immigration points systems worldwide are hybrids relying on employer demand as well as supply-driven selection.
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.
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.
Aiming Higher: Policies to get immigrants into middle-skilled work in Europe
European integration policies have prioritized getting immigrants into work over career progression. Without reform, persistent labor market gaps will widen.
Developing School Capacity for Diversity
School quality affects migrant children more than higher-status peers, making professional capacity for diversity the central lever for closing the achievement gap in European education systems.
Enhancing EU Education Policy: Building a framework to help young people of migrant background succeed
Third-country nationals leave EU schools early at more than double the average rate. Closing this gap requires community-centered, systemic, and inclusion-based reform.
Language Support for Youth with a Migrant Background: Policies that effectively promote inclusion
Language barriers block academic progress for migrant children, but no single EU model exists, making context-sensitive national strategies essential.
Mentoring: What can support projects achieve that schools cannot?
Mentoring by immigrant-background students improves grades and self-esteem but stays marginal without stable funding and institutional embedding in EU systems.
Pushing Out the Boundaries of Humanitarian Screening with In-Country and Offshore Processing
External humanitarian processing proposals have been made in the United States and European Union, raising possible dilemmas for asylum seekers.
Benign Neglect? Policies to Support Upward Mobility for Immigrants in the United Kingdom
The flexible UK labor market helps immigrants find work but not advance, and austerity cuts to language and vocational training have left upward mobility largely to chance.
