How Can Europe Deliver on the Potential of Talent Partnerships?
Europe has announced it will launch a set of Talent Partnerships, combining new mobility schemes for workers or students with related investments in capacity-building in partner countries. As the...
View ArticleLeveraging the Skills of Immigrant Health-Care Professionals in Illinois and...
Immigrants play important roles across the U.S. health-care workforce, but not all of those with in-demand health and medical degrees are able to put their skills to work. Addressing this skill...
View ArticleBuilding Trust with Immigrant and Refugee Families: Spreading and Adapting...
Building trust between service providers and immigrant and refugee families can be challenging, but it is also a key component of programs that successfully serve these families. This brief explores...
View ArticleBetter Responses to Differing Immigration Statuses: Spreading and Adapting...
What status immigrants hold affects their access to U.S. public benefits and services. This brief examines approaches that two-generation programs are using to service immigrant families with a variety...
View ArticleGrowing Language Skills with Immigrant and Refugee Families: Spreading and...
Language barriers can hinder immigrant families’ access to services and make it challenging for immigrant parents to find family-sustaining jobs and actively participate in their children’s education....
View ArticleCultural Competency Secrets to Success with Immigrant and Refugee Families:...
As the United States becomes more diverse, changes in the cultural makeup of communities can challenge longstanding practices in human services delivery. This brief explores strategies service...
View ArticleLeveraging Predeparture Counseling to Support Returning Migrants’ Sustainable...
As assisted voluntary return and reintegration (AVRR) programs proliferate in Europe, there is growing recognition that counseling migrants as they prepare to return to their countries of origin can...
View ArticleHumanitarian Pathways for Central Americans: Assessing Opportunities for the...
For most Central Americans forced to flee their homes, traveling to Mexico or the United States to apply for asylum is their only option to seek international protection. To date, refugee resettlement...
View ArticleVías humanitarias para personas centroamericanas: Evaluando oportunidades...
Para la mayoría de las personas centroamericanas que se ven forzadas a abandonar sus hogares, viajar a México o Estados Unidos para solicitar refugio o asilo es la única opción para buscar protección...
View ArticleEmbedding Reintegration Assistance for Returning Migrants in the Local...
Although European programs to support returning migrants’ reintegration into the communities where they settle have expanded and improved in recent years, returning—at times after years away—is never...
View ArticleImmigrant Children’s Medicaid and CHIP Access and Participation: A Data Profile
Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program help many children in low-income families access health care. But under federal rules, hundreds of thousands of children are ineligible due to...
View ArticleDiverging Pathways: Immigrants’ Legal Status and Access to Postsecondary...
As the United States seeks to adapt to trends such as technological change and aging that are reshaping the labor market, increasing productivity and the number of high-skilled workers will be...
View ArticlePromoting Evidence-Informed Immigrant Integration Policymaking
While many policy areas have seen a revolution in how information is gathered, shared, and used to inform new policies and improve existing ones, immigrant integration has not kept pace. This policy...
View ArticleOverlooked but Essential: Language Access in Early Childhood Programs
Dual Language Learners (DLLs)—young children with a parent who speaks a language other than English at home—benefit greatly from early childhood programs, but they also enroll at lower rates than their...
View ArticleReassessing Recruitment Costs in a Changing World of Labor Migration
Migrant workers can pay a range of costs when they are recruited and relocate for jobs abroad, accruing significant debt. While many countries, international organizations, and other stakeholders have...
View ArticleFour Strategies to Improve Community Services for Unaccompanied Children in...
For unaccompanied children leaving federal custody to live with parents or other sponsors, the transition into U.S. communities can be a difficult one. And although a patchwork of services exist to...
View ArticleUnblocking the U.S. Immigration System: Executive Actions to Facilitate the...
Inefficiencies in the U.S. immigration system and case backlogs are preventing individuals eligible for immigration to the United States from filling some of the millions of job vacancies. This policy...
View ArticleSNAP Access and Participation in U.S.-Born and Immigrant Households: A Data...
The U.S. government created the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, to combat food insecurity. Under federal law, many lawfully present noncitizens in poor households are...
View ArticleRecommendations for the Task Force on New Americans
The Task Force on New Americans launched by the Biden administration represents an important occasion to deepen understanding of immigrant integration issues and to identify ways to address them. MPI’s...
View ArticleWhat Role Can Immigration Play in Addressing Current and Future Labor Shortages?
The labor shortages many countries are grappling with have reignited debates over the role immigration can and should play in meeting workforce needs—and how to balance this approach with investments...
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