| | | | By Ahmed Gamal Eldin Sudan’s civil war has created the world's largest and fastest-growing displacement crisis. However, the situation has been largely overshadowed by conflicts and political tensions elsewhere around the globe. And, as major international donor countries pull back humanitarian aid funding, the crisis is only expected to worsen. This article examines the dramatic scale of displacement and its place in Sudan's history. |
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| | By Jeanne Batalova The United States is the top destination for international students globally. These students contribute billions of dollars to the U.S. economy and account for about 6 percent of U.S. college and university enrollment. But the United States' traditional dominance in this sector has been shrinking, and may decline further amid new U.S. restrictions and growing competition from institutions in other countries. This article offers data about the more than 1.1 million international students enrolled in U.S. higher education. |
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| | By Noël Um-Lo and Eunsook Jang As the number of defections from North to South Korea has declined, South Korea has struggled to respond to a new trend: a rising number of children born during defectors' long stays in China or other third country. As this article explains, these children automatically become South Korean citizens upon arrival but are not eligible for the range of government benefits designed to support defectors. As a result, many fall through the cracks. |
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| | By Muzaffar Chishti and Kathleen Bush-Joseph U.S. immigration enforcement is undergoing a marked transformation. State and local law enforcement authorities were once largely on the sidelines but have become central partners to the Trump administration. Approximately 41 percent of the U.S. population now lives in a jurisdiction where local officers have been deputized to arrest and detain deportable noncitizens. As this article details, state and local participation is growing in both size and scope, including the signing of hundreds of 287(g) deputization agreements, Florida's Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention facility, and Texas's multibillion-dollar Operation Lone Star. |
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| | Australia has started selecting recipients for what has been described as the world’s first climate migration visas. Last week, the government began a random lottery for choosing the first 280 recipients of a brand-new permanent visa for natives of the small Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu, where rising sea levels threaten to make the country unlivable within a generation. The new visa stems from an agreement that Australia and Tuvalu signed in 2023 designed in part to help facilitate movement away from that threat. As legal scholar Jane McAdam explained on our podcast, Changing Climate, Changing Migration, the agreement was notable for explicitly mentioning the context of climate change as a justification for the visa. |
|  | The program is proving remarkably popular. More than 80 percent of Tuvalu’s population has applied for the new visa. While the country is home to only about 11,000 people, the extraordinary interest underscores the visa program’s prospects. Theoretically, the visa could allow every Tuvaluan to emigrate within 40 years. The high number of applications is particularly notable given the contrast to a few years ago, when New Zealand tried offering a somewhat similar “climate refugee” visa to Pacific Islanders threatened by sea-level rise. That 2017 experiment failed before it got off the ground, in large part because would-be recipients did not want to emigrate—and particularly not as humanitarian migrants. The new Australian visa avoids that trap. Applicants do not have to prove they are personally affected by climate change-related hazards, and visa holders will be able to live in Australia permanently. It was also spearheaded by the Tuvaluan government, unlike New Zealand’s proposal, which came from Wellington. To be clear, the visa is just one element of the bilateral deal, formally known as the Australia–Tuvalu Falepili Union. Importantly (and controversially in Tuvalu), the pact gives Australia the opportunity to veto any new Tuvalu security arrangement, which has widely been seen as a diplomatic move to counter China. Tuvalu is one of the dozen or so countries to maintain formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan. Still, the new visa could mark a watershed moment for climate-related migration, about which legal migration systems are generally otherwise silent. The number of people who will benefit from the visa is small, but its impact could be huge. All the best, Julian Hattem
Editor, Migration Information Source
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"Studies have shown that most pay-to-go programs do not live up to policymakers’ expectations, with far fewer people opting to depart than anticipated." |
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| | What We Eat: A Global History of Food, details the migration-related global journeys of dozens of iconic food items, from ketchup to the bánh mì, edited by Pierre Singaravélou and Sylvain Venayre. In A Welcoming Nation? Intersectional Approaches to Migration and Diversity in Wales, editors Catrin Wyn Edwards, Laura Shobiye, and Rhys Dafydd Jones compile analysis of issues in migration from, to, and through the country. Paolo Novak’s Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure chronicles the everyday realities of forced migration in central Italy. Anthropologist Celina de Sá explores cultural and diaspora connections between Brazil and West Africa in Diaspora Without Displacement: The Coloniality and Promise of Capoeira in Senegal. Migration, Participation and the Making of Homes: Narrations from a “Refugees Welcome” Community Garden in Germany, by Susanne Berliner, offers an ethnography of an intercultural community garden. |
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