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Sudan is experiencing the world's largest displacement crisis, yet global attention and funding remain critically low. In this episode of World of Migration, host John Thon Majok speaks with Margaret Monyani of the OLAM Africa Research Institute about why Sudan's crisis is overlooked, the regional spillover effects, and what an effective international response would require.
The Trump administration aims to significantly increase the use of denaturalization, the historically rarely invoked process of stripping U.S. citizenship from immigrants. Once reserved largely for Nazis, communists, and security threats, denaturalization now can be used for a broad set of criminal acts and, some critics fear, going after immigrants engaging in disfavored speech or political activity.
EU policymakers are under mounting pressure to increase returns, yet the reintegration of returnees remains a politically overlooked dimension. This short read examines the fragmented landscape of assisted voluntary return and reintegration (AVRR) programs, the limits of current approaches, and how a more coherent European framework—anchored in local institutions and development partnerships—could better serve both returnees as well as origin and destination countries.
WASHINGTON, DC — Guatemala está recibiendo una población de migrantes retornados con un perfil en evolución: personas que han pasado años, a veces décadas, construyendo sus vidas en Estados Unidos y que enfrentan un camino más difícil para restablecerse al regresar. En medio de un creciente enfoque de las autoridades estadounidenses para identificar a inmigrantes no autorizados en comunidades de Estados Unidos, el perfil de los migrantes retornados guatemaltecos ha comenzado a evolucionar.
WASHINGTON, DC — Guatemala is receiving a changed population of returnees — people who have spent years, sometimes decades, building lives in the United States and who face a more difficult road to re-establishing themselves upon return. Amid a growing U.S. enforcement focus on identifying unauthorized immigrants in U.S. communities, the profile of Guatemalan returnees has started to evolve. Unlike returnees in prior years, who were more likely to be intercepted near the U.S.-Mexico border, today’s returning migrants are more likely to have significant years of U.S.
El perfil de los migrantes guatemaltecos que están siendo forzados a retornar a Guatemala ha mostrado señales de cambio. Con frecuencia los migrantes retornados han permanecido fuera del país por períodos más prolongados y han establecido raíces en el extranjero. Este informe analiza las oportunidades para fortalecer los servicios de reintegración, dadas las características cambiantes de los migrantes retornados.
The profile of Guatemalans forcibly returned to Guatemala is shifting, with returnees often having been outside of the country for longer periods and establishing roots abroad. This report examines opportunities to strengthen reintegration services, given the changing characteristics of returnees.
WASHINGTON, DC — One in three children under age 6 in the United States is a Dual Language Learner (DLL) —a young child growing up in a household where at least one parent speaks a language other than English at home. Research consistently shows that engagement of families, not just children, is critical to boosting the effectiveness of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in strengthening school readiness, language development and long-term academic success.
Active family engagement is essential to ensuring children benefit fully from early childhood education and care programs. Yet language barriers and cultural misunderstandings can sometimes keep educators and the families of Dual Language Learners (DLLs) from forming this important partnership. This policy brief explores strategies to better utilize federal funding to engage with DLL children and families.
Previously niche strategies of recruiting partner countries to help manage irregular migration have become mainstream. Governments in multiple migrant-receiving countries have engaged other countries to screen, detain, remove, or otherwise transfer migrants elsewhere—in effect pushing the border outwards. While some externalization approaches have been criticized, the range of models is more nuanced than is commonly understood.
Although the Syrian immigrant population in the United States roughly doubled following the outbreak of Syria's civil war, it remains relatively small compared to both the overall U.S. immigrant population and Syrian emigration globally. This article compiles key statistics about this group.
Floods and other environmental crises have caused massive displacement in Pakistan, most of this migration remaining within the country. Often, climate-displaced people go to the megacity of Karachi, where many settle permanently. This article offers perspectives from climate migrants living in several informal settlements in Karachi.
FIFA World Cup 2026 arrives amid stricter U.S. immigration policies that are limiting access for fans from dozens of countries. This World of Migration episode features sports journalist Albert Samaha on what the intersection of sports and immigration at the World Cup, including visa barriers and stepped-up enforcement, could mean, including for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
WASHINGTON, DC — The United States has made real progress in elevating border security as a national priority — and sustaining that progress is essential. But the country's long-term prosperity will depend on whether policymakers build a modern legal immigration system suited to a rapidly changing economy. Meeting both imperatives at once is not only possible, it is necessary. The last time Congress meaningfully updated immigrant selection policies was in 1990 — before the internet, much less artificial intelligence.
Leaving a climate-vulnerable place can potentially lead to better health outcomes for individuals, but only under the right circumstances. This episode of Changing Climate, Changing Migration features economist and researcher Ilse Ruyssen, who discusses the intersection of climate change, migration, and health.
The Trump administration is seeking to all but eliminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a humanitarian safeguard for U.S.-resident noncitizens whose home countries were too dangerous or unstable for return. While critics say the term "temporary" has been stretched beyond recognition, TPS has become a mainstay. This article examines the history and use of TPS, the debate over its future, and holders of the status.
Immigration is central to America’s economic future, yet political debate remains fixated on border crises and past policy failures instead of how a modern legal immigration system could power U.S. growth and competitiveness in an era of demographic decline. This short read argues for shifting the conversation toward flexible, employment-based immigration policies that match today’s labor market needs, strengthen enforcement through legal pathways, and treat immigrants as a source of national strength.
Migration patterns from and through Central America are changing in fundamental ways amid rising immigration enforcement and a reduction in global humanitarian aid. These twin developments are putting new pressures on governments in the region and reshaping migrant experiences, as this article explores.
WASHINGTON, DC — Cities that invest strategically in the economic inclusion of migrants and refugees can significantly boost local growth, expand their tax base and fill critical labor gaps.
Cuba's collapsing economy and shrinking immigration pathways to the United States are redirecting Cuban migration flows across the Americas, as this World of Migration episode explores with María José Espinosa Carrillo, Executive Director of the Center for Engagement and Advocacy in the Americas (CEDA).