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May 12, 2022

Dear John xxxxxx,

Recent displacement crises -- from Syria, Afghanistan, and Venezuela to Myanmar, South Sudan, and most recently, Ukraine -- have imposed huge stresses on the humanitarian protection regime. Yet individual countries and regional organizations have been innovating to meet the challenge and expand the options available for humanitarian protection in ways that ease pressures on overburdened or underdeveloped asylum systems.

In a new commentary, MPI and MPI Europe Director for International Research Meghan Benton and MPI President Andrew Selee examine some of the alternative pathways that countries in Europe and Latin America are taking to receive the displaced and incorporate them into their communities and labor markets. Swift grants of temporary protection status by the European Union for Ukrainians, the ten-year status that Colombia has given more than 1.7 million displaced Venezuelans, and use of existing mobility agreements by Argentina and Uruguay to grant short-term residency to Venezuelans all represent pragmatic arrangements.

While some have dismissed these solutions as "protection lite" and note the shortcomings that temporary protection regimes can bring, the commentary argues that alternate arrangements are common sense, particularly for regional movements that sit at the intersection of labor mobility and displacement.

The commentary also explores expanded use of complementary pathways, such as private and community sponsorship and use of work, study, and family reunification channels, to admit people in need. And it discusses the need to streamline integration processes and have them be part of the consideration from day one.

"These approaches will not work in every case, and they should not replace existing mechanisms for asylum and refugee protection, but they will be an increasingly important addition to the existing protection regime when the conditions on the ground allow for pragmatic solutions that complement traditional asylum and refugee designations," Benton and Selee conclude.

You can read the commentary here: www.migrationpolicy.org/news/ukrainian-displacement-refugee-protection.

Best regards,

Michelle Mittelstadt
Director of Communications and Public Affairs,
Migration Policy Institute

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