Comprehensive Immigration Reform
DREAM Act/Deferred Action
Legalization/Regularization
Selection Systems
Immigration legislative and administrative policies, legal statutes and court decisions, and regulations collectively shape nations' immigration systems—from visa allotments and immigrant-selection mechanisms to immigrant integration programs, border controls, and more. As international migration has increased in size and spread and as a number of nations are more flexibly adjusting their immigration systems, the research offered here examines the many permutations of immigration policy and law, often with a comparative lens.
Unauthorized Youths and Higher Education: The Ongoing Debate
By Dawn Konet
Gaining from Migration: Towards a New Mobility System
By Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Gregory A. Maniatis
Pathways to Success for the Children of Immigrants
By Maurice Crul
Language Policies and Practices for Helping Immigrants and Second-Generation Students Succeed
By Gayle Christensen and Petra Stanat
How Changes to Family Immigration Could Affect Source Countries' Sending Patterns
Selecting Economic Stream Immigrants through Points Systems
By Demetrios G. Papademetriou
Proposed Points System and Its Likely Impact on Prospective Immigrants
By Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Jeanne Batalova and Julia Gelatt
Immigration and the 2007 French Elections
By Hiroyuki Tanaka
Dawn Konet provides an overview of the arguments for and against granting in-state tuition rates to the unauthorized in the United States, and looks at relevant legislation at the state and federal levels.
This policy brief analyzes the effectiveness of school language policies across 14 immigrant-receiving countries. It examines various methods countries have adopted to help immigrant students gain proficiency in the language of instruction, identifies contexts that seem to elicit positive outcomes, and provides recommendations.
This policy brief examines the social mobility prospects of the children of Turkish immigrants across five EU nations—Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands—and seeks to identify institutional arrangements that promote their academic success and transition into the labor market.
This report examines the ways in which governments can make the emerging global mobility system work better for European migrant-receiving countries, their developing-country partners, and the migrants themselves.
This fact sheet examines proposed changes to the United States' family based immigration system under The Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Reform Act of 2007.
The U.S. Congress is considering a bill that includes a points system for permanent immigration. MPI's Demetrios G. Papademetriou outlines how points systems work, which countries have used them, their political benefits, and trends in points-system use.
This report examines the political context surrounding the 2007 French presidential election as it relates to immigration. It provides an overview of immigration to France and highlights notable demographic trends since 2000.
This report offers a series of original charts that depict the characteristics of recent immigrants who are representative of those likely to be affected by the proposed merit-based points system for selecting permanent immigrants to the United States.
María Jesús Mora
The Ukrainian Displacement Crisis: A Conversation with the European Commission's Director General for Migration and Home Affairs
Migration Policy Institute
New U.S. and State Estimates for Executive Action for Unauthorized Immigrants​
As many as 5.2 million unauthorized immigrants could gain relief under new and expanded deferred action programs that President Obama unveiled in November 2014. Check out our U.S. and state breakdowns of the populations that could benefit from the existing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program or new deferred action program for certain parents of U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents.
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