A ‘Freer’ Flow of Skilled Labour within ASEAN: Aspirations, Opportunities,...
Skilled labor migration is particularly important for developing countries seeking growth and looking to fill skills shortages. How can Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...
View ArticleA ‘Freer’ Flow of Skilled Labour within ASEAN: Aspirations, Opportunities,...
A breakfast briefing discussing the transformation of the ASEAN region into a single market and production base, including the steps that can be taken towards fuller labor mobility for high-skilled...
View ArticleMentoring Practices in Europe and North America: Strategies for Improving...
Employment-oriented mentoring is increasingly recognized in Europe as a tool for advancing the labor market integration of disadvantaged individuals, including immigrants. This report highlights a...
View ArticleThe Field of Migration Studies Loses a Giant: Graeme Hugo
In a personal tribute published in the Migration Information Source, MPI's online journal, MPI President Emeritus Demetrios G. Papademetriou reflects on the life and career of Graeme Hugo, a...
View ArticleImproving Migrants' Labour Market Integration in Europe from the Outset:...
While there is growing consensus on the value of immigrant integration support prior to departure, such initiatives generally have not fully realized their potential. This policy brief reviews...
View ArticleFollowing the Money: Chinese Labor Migration to Zambia
Migration has begun to follow the flow of capital after years of Chinese investment in major infrastructure projects in Zambia. This feature article, based on original research including the coding of...
View ArticleBuilding Skills in North and Central America: Barriers and Policy Options...
Amid aging populations and the growth of chronic diseases, the demand for skilled health-care professionals is on the rise in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. This report explores the policy...
View ArticleThe Asia-Pacific and Women’s Labour Migration
Marking the release of the MPI-IOM 12th Issue in Brief, this event in Bangkok examined the emerging trends in women’s labor migration in the Asia-Pacific region, and the related opportunities and...
View ArticleSecuring the Border: Defining the Current Population Living in the Shadows...
Testimony of Marc Rosenblum before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs for the March 26, 2015 hearing on the characteristics of unauthorized immigrants in the United...
View ArticleWomen’s Labour Migration from Asia and the Pacific: Opportunities and Challenges
The number of women migrants in many countries in the Asia-Pacific region is on the rise. While migration can provide unique opportunities for female workers to improve their livelihoods and gain...
View ArticleThe Asia-Pacific and Women’s Labour Migration
Marking the release of the 12th MPI-IOM Issue in Brief, this event in Bangkok examined the emerging trends in women’s labor migration in the Asia-Pacific region, and the related opportunities and...
View ArticleRecent Court Decisions Put a Sharp Spotlight on U.S. H-2B Temporary Worker...
The H-2B visa allows U.S. employers to bring in foreign workers to temporarily fill low-skill nonagricultural jobs across a wide range of states and industries. A series of recent legal challenges has...
View ArticleIndian Immigrants in the United States
Indian immigrants represent the second-largest origin group in the United States, accounting for 4.7 percent of the total foreign-born population. Generally high-skilled and highly educated, more than...
View ArticleIn Historic Shift, New Migration Flows from Mexico Fall Below Those from...
Mexico has lost its long-held status as the top source country of new immigrants to the United States, dropping to third place behind China and India. This historic shift is remarkable for the rapid...
View ArticleRevolution and Political Transition in Tunisia: A Migration Game Changer?
With a history of encouraging workers to emigrate to relieve unemployment at home, Tunisia now has 11 percent of its population living abroad. The factors underlying the 2011 revolution that sparked...
View ArticleIntegration Key to Combating Radicalization: A Q&A with Solveig Horne,...
With rising inflows of humanitarian and economic migrants, Norway faces a series of integration challenges. In conversation with the Migration Information Source, Solveig Horne, Norway's Minister of...
View ArticleRedefining Nepal: Internal Migration in a Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Society
Even as Nepal will lean more heavily on its international diaspora to help recover from devastating earthquakes that killed thousands and decimated parts of the country, the disasters have had effects...
View ArticleThe Immigration Act of 1965: Then and Now
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of passage of the Immigration Act of 1965, a symposium with distinguished experts on the political and policy dynamics that came together to make the law possible,...
View ArticleBusiness as Usual? Regularizing Foreign Labor in Costa Rica
With the growing urbanization and consolidation of Nicaraguan immigrants in sectors such as construction and domestic service, Costa Rica has shifted its focus from immigration enforcement to...
View ArticleWhat's New in Farm Labor? Immigration and the Agricultural Sector
An expert discussion on the findings of the National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) related to immigrants, along with an overview of farm labor in 2015 and discussion on how current and possible...
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