| | | | By Rupa Banerjee, Naomi Alboim, Anna Triandafyllidou, and Georgiana Mathurin Canada has long been viewed as a global leader in creating welcoming immigration policies, and newcomers are seen as essential for addressing labor shortages and demographic needs. But amid pressures on housing and services, as well as a surge in admission of temporary migrants, most Canadians now say there is too much immigration. In response, the government recently lowered its targets for new arrivals. This country profile examines the factors behind Canada's policy evolution. |
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| | By Muzaffar Chishti and Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh The Trump administration has launched an ambitious campaign to encourage “self-deportation” as a complement to its muscular immigration enforcement operations. Can it succeed? A somewhat similar U.S. attempt in 2008 was considered a failure. Internationally, "pay-to-go" programs have occurred on a smaller scale than what is now envisioned by Trump officials. The administration is banking on a novel and so far unproven combination of carrots and sticks, as this article details. |
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| | International organizations working in the humanitarian protection and migration spaces are having to let thousands of their employees go and sharply curtail their operations amid a major and rapid reduction in funding from partner governments. Precisely 80 years since the founding of the United Nations, the international system is at a critical juncture, amid what the organization describes as the starkest funding shortfall in the history of humanitarian aid. As of May, UN Member States’ contributions amounted to less than half of the UN’s $3.7 billion budget for 2025. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said last month that it was cutting about 3,500 permanent staff posts, including nearly half of all senior positions at its headquarters in Geneva. The International Organization for Migration (IOM), which assisted more than 26 million people last year, cut one-fifth of its headquarters staff in March and was looking to move positions to less costly regional offices. Organizations such as the World Food Program have issued similarly stark warnings, as have non-UN agencies also working in the same orbit, such as Save the Children and Oxfam. While the Trump administration’s rollback of U.S. foreign assistance is one major component of the budget shortfall, Washington is not the only capital to pare its contributions. The United Kingdom has also cut foreign aid, in order to increase its defense spending. Several EU Member States have also reduced aid funds, as has the European Union itself. In all, billions of dollars in foreign aid have been pulled back, affecting international organizations and others with humanitarian assistance operations around the globe. On the ground in refugee camps and elsewhere, the cuts can be measured in empty stomachs, missing medicine, and less support. More grimly, some predict the toll will be assessed in deaths and disease spread. As with every period of profound change and dislocation, the current moment could eventually yield a new, brighter outcome. As my colleagues Lawrence Huang, Samuel Davidoff-Gore, and Susan Fratzke recently examined, the funding shocks could pave the way for an innovative era of truly sustainable foreign aid, at least in the migration space. Getting to that point would take significant effort by philanthropists and other parties, but is well within the realm of possibility. For now, while the immediate impacts of the budgetary slashing are clear in lost programs, staff, and operations, their true costs will be years in the tallying. All the best, Julian Hattem
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| | "Drought, floods, and extreme weather have had devastating effects on Iran, forcing people to move internally, affecting one of the world’s largest populations of displaced people, and likely propelling emigration." |
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"Where the government and population of the Netherlands once handled immigrant integration with famed Dutch tolerance, some have grown deeply intolerant of newcomers, equating immigration with a rise in religious extremism and terror, and a loss of prosperity." |
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"Asia is the second largest region of origin for immigration to the United States, after Latin America, accounting for 31 percent of all 47.8 million foreign-born residents." |
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| | Climate migration trends and policies in the Caribbean are the topic of the latest episode of MPI’s podcast Changing Climate, Changing Migration, featuring Natalie Dietrich Jones. What knowledge and resources do women bring with them as they flee Ukraine? Izabela Grabowska, Ivanna Kyliushyk, and Emil Chról provide answers in Ukrainian Female War Migrants: Mobilising Resources for Prospective Social Remittances. In Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics, scholars Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind provide a sweeping overview of comics about refugees and asylum seekers. Coming Out of Partition: Refugee Women of Bengal, by Gargi Chakravartty, provides a history of Hindus and Muslims alike in the aftermath of the 1947 partition of India. The memoir Dora: A Daughter of Unforgiving Terrain, by Abbey Carpenter and Dora Rodriguez, tells the story of Rodriguez’s journey fleeing El Salvador’s civil war and growth into a community leader in the U.S. borderlands. Sociologist Gwyneth Lonergan sheds light on migrant women’s relatively poor maternal health outcomes in Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy: Migrant Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy and Maternity Care in the UK. |
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