| | | | By Heidi Bludau The United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and other countries are increasingly relying on immigrant health-care workers to fill gaps in their workforce and care for aging populations. These labor-force holes became sharply visible during the COVID-19 pandemic. The dynamic has created opportunities for many foreign-born doctors and nurses. But it could harm their origin countries, which lose out on local expertise and may design training schemes to suit foreign needs. This article examines the dynamics of global health-care worker migration. |
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| | By Visalaakshi Annamalai Every year, an unknown number of women and girls from Southeast Asia move to China to marry Chinese men. Many go voluntarily, hoping for a better quality of life for themselves and their families. But some are deceived into their situation and are victims of human trafficking. After a temporary slowdown during China's stiff "zero-COVID" restrictions, bride migration has seemed to resume over the last year. This article takes a look at the phenomenon of marriage migration, which has been spurred by China's gender imbalance, economic disparities, and other factors. |
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| | By Muzaffar Chishti, Kathleen Bush-Joseph, and Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh U.S. President Joe Biden has been more active on immigration than any of his predecessors, responsible for 535 immigration actions over the first three years of his administration, according to a Migration Policy Institute (MPI) tally. Yet the administration is constantly defending itself from allegations of inaction on border security from Republicans and, increasingly, fellow Democrats. This paradox is due to the unprecedented pressure at the U.S.-Mexico border and the profound ways that migration there has changed in recent years. This article reviews the Biden track record on immigration. |
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| | A wave of coups rippling through Africa’s Sahel is sending shockwaves through the region and having far-reaching ramifications, including for migration. Last weekend, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger—the scenes of military coups in 2020, 2022, and 2023, respectively—withdrew from the regional Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), claiming the organization had come “under the influence of foreign powers” by imposing sanctions on them and was failing to assist with counterterrorism. In September, the three countries formed a new Alliance of Sahel States, in what was seen as an effort to provide an alternative to ECOWAS. The withdrawal and creation of a rival security alliance represents a significant blow to ECOWAS, Africa’s most advanced free-movement zone. The bloc has long been at risk of seeing its credibility diminished. Outside the Sahel, the largest migration impacts are unfolding as a result of Niger’s July 2023 coup deposing President Mohamed Bazoum. Niger, a sprawling country covered mostly by desert, sits at a critical junction in the migration pathway from West Africa into Algeria and Libya, which are common setting-off points for Europe. Since the European migration and asylum crisis of 2015-16, Niger had been a partner in the European Union’s efforts to stem irregular movement into the bloc. But Niger changed course after the coup, repealing a law criminalizing migrant transportation through the country. Since then, the gates through Niger’s north have reopened, giving new life to a once-thriving migration and smuggling economy that had dimmed under the EU-backed law. Movement through Niger has surged since September, and nearly 97,000 people were recorded leaving the country in December. Across the Sahel, political instability is on the rise—Niger’s coup was the region’s eighth in three years—and countries are also contending with a crippling combination of corruption, poverty, hunger, and the impacts of climate change. More than 5.1 million people were displaced or otherwise labeled persons of concern to the international community in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger at the end of last year, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR). My colleague Camille Le Coz recently discussed these issues and regional displacement with development economist Alexandra Tapsoba for an episode of MPI’s World of Migration podcast. The decision by Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger to pull out of ECOWAS is a major blow to regional integration. Going forward, it seems unlikely that a splintered Sahel will be better able to respond to its mounting humanitarian challenges. And increased migration to North Africa and Europe is likely to be met with growing consternation, particularly as some European leaders turn notably rightward on immigration. Events in the Sahel are often overlooked, but actions there reverberate widely. Best regards, Julian Hattem
Editor, Migration Information Source
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| | Australian scholar Jane McAdam explains recent experiments with legal statuses for migrants displaced by climate change in the Pacific on the latest episode of MPI’s Changing Climate, Changing Migration podcast. Essays in New Narratives on the Peopling of America: Immigration, Race, and Dispossession, edited by T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Alexandra Délano Alonso, position the histories of Indigenous, enslaved, and other people alongside those of migrants in the United States. In Citizenship and Human Rights: From Exclusive and Universal to Global Rights: A New Framework, Christian Kälin examines legal regimes and rights related to citizenship. Journalist John Washington makes an argument for a brand-new approach to migration in The Case for Open Borders. Immigration, Security, and the Liberal State: The Politics of Migration Regulation in Europe and the United States, by Gallya Lahav and Anthony M. Messina, offers analysis of security-centric approaches to migration management. In Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE Air, immigration lawyer Rebecca A. Sharpless examines a controversial effort to deport 92 Africans from the United States. |
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