| | | | By Khandaker Mursheda Farhana and Kazi Abdul Mannan For a young country, Bangladesh has a complex migration history, with periods of forced migration during the partition of India and Pakistan as well as the 1971 war of independence. In recent years, labor emigration has proved a major economic boon to the country. This profile of Bangladesh reviews trends and the impact of emigration, with a particular focus on the effects of remittance sending and receipt. |
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| | By Victoria Finn In recent decades, countries worldwide have expanded voting rights to their diasporas as well as certain resident noncitizens. The vast majority of countries now have laws allowing some emigrants to vote from abroad, while dozens make it possible for some noncitizens to access the ballot box. Voting access in general has grown over time, as barriers based on sex, literacy, and other characteristics have fallen. Migrants' increasingly expansive rights to vote are part of that trend worldwide. This article provides a global overview of the dynamics. |
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| | By Muzaffar Chishti, Kathleen Bush-Joseph, and Julian Montalvo One year after the end of the U.S. pandemic-era Title 42 policy, its legacy has become clear. Despite a staggering 3 million expulsions, the order largely failed to deter unauthorized migration and instead was accompanied by a spike in repeat crossings and "gotaways." It also represented a dramatic break with decades of law providing protection to asylum seekers. This article compiles the numbers to present a sweeping overview of Title 42. |
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| | Nearly seven months into Israel’s war with Hamas, the overwhelming majority of Gaza’s 2.1 million residents are simultaneously permanently displaced from their homes and trapped in place. The vast majority of Gazans have been forced to flee their homes and are facing catastrophic levels of hunger and starvation, amid a crisis that humanitarian organizations have described in near-apocalyptic terms. More than 30,000 Gazans are reported to have been killed by Israeli fire in retaliation for Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack that left approximately 1,200 Israelis dead. But the true toll of Palestinian casualties is likely much larger, since officials have been unable to count many of the dead. Yet Palestinians have been unable to leave the 140-square mile (360-square kilometer) Gaza Strip, which is the same size as Las Vegas. There is no part of Gaza that is safe, aid groups insist, noting the Israeli military has bombed areas it had specifically designated as safe zones. Gazans are trapped by Israeli land and sea blockades as well as by Egypt, which has steadfastly refused to allow significant numbers of Palestinians across for reasons both practical and ideological. Egypt fears that allowing Gazans to cross could turn part of the Sinai Peninsula into a de facto launching pad for attacks on Israel that could enmesh Egypt in the conflict. Doing so might also be considered a tacit abandonment of hope for a Palestinian state, replicating the 1948 displacement known as the Nakba and dashing the dreams of Palestinian backers around the world. Many Palestinians also would refuse to abandon their homeland, even if it were feasible to do so. Yet far-right corners of the Israeli government have all but promised to force Palestinians out of Gaza, as part of a campaign that a UN rapporteur has described as ethnic cleansing. “What needs to be done in the Gaza Strip is to encourage emigration,” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said. Where might they go? Technically, more than three-quarters of Gaza’s population are already refugees, as result of their historical displacement. But due to a special provision of international refugee law, Palestinian refugees (including those in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon) are the mandate of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which is unable to resettle them like refugees who are under the mandate of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), as the Migration Information Source explained last year. Palestinian refugees also face high barriers to integration in host communities in Lebanon and elsewhere. Still, a small number of Gazans have crossed into Egypt, often paying exorbitant costs of up to $15,000. Nearly 11,600 Palestinians sought asylum in the European Union in 2023, the most in years. With no end in sight to the conflict, Palestinians’ simultaneous displacement and entrapment are only likely to worsen amid near-famine, making the dire situation all the more severe. Best regards, Julian Hattem
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"Cities across the globe are using digital tools, such as web portals and apps, to improve access to public services, enhance responsiveness, better understand the needs of the populations they serve, and provide platforms for deeper civic engagement." |
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"Whereas in 1960 Europeans constituted 75 percent of all U.S. immigrants, their share fell to 22 percent by 1990 and 10 percent by 2022." |
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| | MPI’s “Changing Climate, Changing Migration” podcast examines the ethical questions involved in climate displacement—do major climate-polluting countries bear any responsibility?—in the latest episode. Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants, by journalist Jacob Kushner, explores an early 2000s terrorist effort targeting immigrants in Germany. Making Routes: Mobility and Politics of Migration in the Global South provides analysis of displacement and migration in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, edited by Gerda Heck, Eda Sevinin, Elena Habersky, and Carlos Sandoval-García. Stefano Becucci’s Smuggling and Trafficking of Migrants in Southern Europe: Criminal Actors, Dynamics and Migration Policies examines institutional, economic, and criminal elements of migrant smuggling and trafficking. Faith-based and other shelters that aid migrants on their travel through Mexico are the subject of Priscilla Solano’s Shelter on the Journey: Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Migration. |
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