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Immigrant Workers and the Workforce Development System in the United Kingdom
England's employer-led skills system helps some immigrants incidentally, but complexity and austerity-driven cuts leave those most in need least likely to participate.
The Lampedusa Tragedy Prompts the Question: Does the UN have any impact on the world’s migrants?
As hundreds drowned near Lampedusa in 2013, a rare UN migration dialogue spotlighted the world body's limited but potentially growing role in global migration governance.
Maximizing Potential: How Countries Can Address Skills Deficits within the Immigrant Workforce
More than ever, human capital is seen as the ultimate resource. As a result, policymakers face the challenge of ensuring that workers have the skills and abilities to find productive employment and contribute to growth, innovation, and competitiveness in constantly evolving labor markets. Migrants’ skills are often seen as an untapped resource that, with the right formula of policies, can bolster competitiveness and fuel productivity.
The Impact of Remittances on Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
Remittances globally totaled U.S. $401 billion in 2012, demonstrably reducing poverty and building human capital, but high costs and policy barriers limit their full development impact.
Attracting and Selecting from the Global Talent Pool — Policy Challenges
Winning skilled immigrants demands coherent strategy across visa design, infrastructure, integration, and credential recognition—no single policy can substitute for the others.
What We Know About Circular Migration and Enhanced Mobility
Circular migration offers real development gains for origin countries, destinations, and migrants, but only when governance and bilateral policy cooperation are in place.
Does Respect for Migrant Rights Contribute to Economic Development?
Rights protections in migrant-sending countries likely boost development inputs, but in receiving countries the link is contested.
Environmental Change and Migration: What We Know
Climate change will displace millions through drought, sea-level rise, storms, and conflict—yet most immigration systems have no framework to govern these movements.
Newcomers to the Aloha State: Challenges and Prospects for Mexicans in Hawai'i
Hawai'i's Mexican community is predominantly U.S.-born and lawfully present, yet faces disproportionate enforcement, geographic dispersal, and fragmented identity.
What Do We Know About Skilled Migration and Development?
Brain drain restrictions harm migrants and origin countries without documented benefits; bilateral skill-flow partnerships offer a better path.