Giving Cities and Regions a Voice in Immigration Policy: Can National...
Employer-sponsored immigration and subnational visa programs are the two major routes to channel new immigrant arrivals toward particular destinations where their labor is thought to be in high demand....
View ArticleGiving Cities and Regions a Greater Voice in Immigration Policy
MPI researchers and representatives from London and Detroit discuss the policies and strategies used—both at national and local levels—to attract immigrants into local economies and the challenges...
View ArticleRevitalizing Detroit: Is There a Role for Immigration?
Immigration alone cannot save Detroit, which has become a byword for urban decline and economic decay. But if carefully managed in the context of a broader economic development strategy, immigration...
View ArticleThe Human-Capital Needs of Tech City, London
This report analyzes the importance of human capital to the development of London's Tech City and sets this discussion in a broader framework linking cities, digital sectors, and highly skilled...
View ArticleGiving Cities and Regions a Greater Voice in Immigration Policy
MPI researchers and representatives from London and Detroit discuss the policies and strategies used—at national and local levels—to attract immigrants into local economies.
View ArticleSelling Visas and Citizenship: Policy Questions from the Global Boom in...
Over the past decade, the number of countries with immigrant investor programs has increased dramatically, with half of European Union Member States and several Caribbean nations now using these...
View ArticleThe Global Boom in Investor Immigration: What Are the Lessons For Policymakers?
A discussion on the extraordinary boom in investor immigration. From the rapidly expanding EB-5 visa in the United States to Malta’s controversial “cash for citizenship” policy and a host of programs...
View ArticleThe Global Boom in Investor Immigration: What Are the Lessons For Policymakers?
A discussion on the extraordinary boom in investor immigration, including the rapidly expanding EB-5 visa in the United States, Malta’s controversial “cash for citizenship” policy and a host of...
View ArticleAiming Higher: Policies to Get Immigrants into Middle-Skilled Work in Europe
This report is the final one in an MPI-International Labour Office series that examines the employment prospects of migrants in the EU (focusing on the case-study countries of the Czech Republic,...
View ArticleTop 10 of 2014 - Issue #9: The Points System Is Dead, Long Live the Points...
2014 marked the quiet demise worldwide of the traditional points system for selecting skilled immigrants. Canada, which in 1969 invented the points system, in 2015 will join other countries in adopting...
View ArticleA ‘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 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 ArticleThe Geopolitical Origins of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1965
Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, radically altering U.S. policy and reshaping the demographic profile of the United States. Examining the...
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 ArticleDestination China: The Country Adjusts to its New Migration Reality
Faced with rising numbers of foreign entries (long- and short-term), China in 2012 adopted new legislation to manage its migration flows—the first reform to the country's immigration law since 1985....
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 ArticleAssessing the Political Impact of Immigration as the United Kingdom Heads to...
The United Kingdom has faced changing immigration patterns over the last two decades driven largely by EU migration, and political upheaval caused by the rise of the United Kingdom Independence Party...
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 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,...
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