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Leveraging Digital Skills: Immigrant-Origin High School Graduates Offer a Pool of Talent for U.S. Employers
With immigrants and their U.S.-born children expected to drive all net growth in the future labor force, there is a significant opportunity to leverage the digital skills of immigrant-origin adults to meet growing employer demand for technologically adept workers. This commentary draws on analysis of PIAAC data to study the skills of U.S. adults by immigrant generation.
Migration, Climate Change, and Security in the Pacific
How does climate-driven displacement in the Pacific complicate the already fragile boundaries between humanitarian response, diplomacy, and military action?
Is the Humanitarian Protection System Falling Apart or Quietly Evolving?
The post-World War II refugee protection system is straining under record displacement, but also quietly evolving through use of temporary statuses and offshore processing.
Mexico at a Crossroads Once More: Emigration Levels Off as Transit Migration and Immigration Rise
Mexico's role is shifting as the country becomes a major transit country; remittances are increasing as is authorities’ detention of migrants.
A Century Later, Restrictive 1924 U.S. Immigration Law Has Reverberations in Immigration Debate
The 1924 Immigration Act's eugenics-influenced national-origin quotas reshaped U.S. demographics for decades and its core provisions still shape U.S. immigration law.
Immigrant Veterans in the United States
Nearly 731,000 immigrants were U.S. veterans as of 2022; this population is growing, highly educated, and more diverse than its native-born counterparts.
De los principios a la acción: una nueva agenda para el segundo aniversario de la Declaración de Los Ángeles
Dos años después de la firma de La Declaración de Los Ángeles sobre Migración y Protección, los gobiernos de a través de las Américas se reunieron en Guatemala para analizar el estado de cooperación en el hemisferio. Organizaciones no gubernamentales e internacionales produjeron una agenda de acción práctica para el próximo año. Se explica en este comentario.
Globally, Voting Rights Have Increased for Immigrants and Emigrants
Voting rights for immigrants and emigrants have grown significantly worldwide—but access remains uneven, shaped by legal status, residency requirements, and governments' shifting definitions of belonging.
Translating Principles into Action: Countries Set New Agenda on the Los Angeles Declaration’s Second Anniversary
Two years after signing the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection, governments from across the Americas met in Guatemala to assess the state of cooperation in the hemisphere. Working with nongovernmental and international organizations, they also produced an agenda for practical action for the next year, as this commentary explains.
Title 42 Postmortem: U.S. Pandemic-Era Expulsions Policy Did Not Shut Down the Border
Nearly 3 million migrant expulsions occurred under Title 42. Use of the authority to expel border arrivals, which bypassed U.S. asylum law, drove up recidivism and “gotaways.”
