What Do Changes in Turkey and Syria Spell for Kurds Seeking Protection Abroad? Significant shares of Syrians and Turks who have sought asylum in the European Union are of Kurdish background. How will migration be affected by the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria and Turkey’s 2025 ceasefire with PKK militants? This article examines the history and context of migration dynamics involving the Kurds, and prospects for change.

What Do Changes in Turkey and Syria Spell for Kurds Seeking Protection Abroad?

Significant shares of Syrians and Turks who have sought asylum in the European Union are of Kurdish background. How will migration be affected by the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria and Turkey’s 2025…

Meeting Labor Skill Needs While Expanding Refugee Protection This webinar explored labor migration pathways as a potential avenue for qualified refugees to access protection in Europe while helping meet destination countries’ skill needs. Speakers examined ways to make work visas more accessible to qualified refugees and how to remove barriers that prevent refugees from entering via the labor pathway. 

Meeting Labor Skill Needs While Expanding Refugee Protection

This webinar explored labor migration pathways as a potential avenue for qualified refugees to access protection in Europe while helping meet destination countries’ skill needs. Speakers examined ways to make work visas more accessible…

Building Refugee-Inclusive Labor Mobility Pathways: A Visa Evaluation Framework When refugees can access mainstream work visas, this offers opportunities to find safety while also helping destination countries meet pressing labor needs. Yet the design of many work visas puts them out of reach for well-qualified refugees. This visa evaluation framework and scorecard highlight how different characteristics can make a visa more or less accessible, transparent, and predictable.

Building Refugee-Inclusive Labor Mobility Pathways: A Visa Evaluation Framework

When refugees can access mainstream work visas, this offers opportunities to find safety while also helping destination countries meet pressing labor needs. Yet the design of many work visas puts them out of reach for…

Meeting Labor Skill Needs While Expanding Refugee Protection This webinar will explore labor migration pathways as a potential avenue for qualified refugees to access protection in Europe while helping meet destination countries’ skill needs. Speakers will examine ways to make work visas more accessible to qualified refugees and how to remove barriers that prevent refugees from entering via the labor pathway. 

Meeting Labor Skill Needs While Expanding Refugee Protection

This webinar will explore labor migration pathways as a potential avenue for qualified refugees to access protection in Europe while helping meet destination countries’ skill needs. Speakers will examine ways to make work visas more…

Weaponized Mass Migration: A Security Risk to Europe and the United States Testimony of Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan, Deputy Director of MPI's International Program, before the U.S. House of Representatives, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Europe Subcommittee, on February 10, 2026.

Weaponized Mass Migration: A Security Risk to Europe and the United States

Testimony of Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan, Deputy Director of MPI's International Program, before the U.S. House of Representatives, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Europe Subcommittee, on February 10, 2026.

Diaspora as Diplomacy in Albania Albania's diaspora has been an asset for the government's ambitions to join the European Union, grow its economy, and increase its international standing. As the government has sought to build closer ties with Albanians living abroad and others with ancestral ties to the homeland, it has seen the diaspora as a tool for public diplomacy, the advancement of cultural traditions, and more.

Diaspora as Diplomacy in Albania

Albania's diaspora has been an asset for the government's ambitions to join the European Union, grow its economy, and increase its international standing. As the government has sought to build closer ties with Albanians living abroad and others with ancestral ties…

What Drives Anti-Migrant Vigilantes In recent years, vigilante groups opposed to immigration have formed to conduct patrols, stage parades, and even commit violence against asylum seekers and other migrants in Europe, North America, and other regions. Vigilantes often claim that the government has been soft on irregular migration and use performative, symbolically heavy imagery to sway public opinion. This article traces the trends in vigilante movements targeting migrants.

What Drives Anti-Migrant Vigilantes

In recent years, vigilante groups opposed to immigration have formed to conduct patrols, stage parades, and even commit violence against asylum seekers and other migrants in Europe, North America, and other regions. Vigilantes often claim that the government has…

The Role of Counselling & Reintegration Support in Shaping Migrants’ Return Decisions Featuring a study on the role that counselling and reintegration programs can play in shaping migrants' return decisions, this webinar examines how timing of such interventions, counselling approaches, and collaboration with trusted origin-country partners can help make these programs more effective.

The Role of Counselling & Reintegration Support in Shaping Migrants’ Return Decisions

Featuring a study on the role that counselling and reintegration programs can play in shaping migrants' return decisions, this webinar examines how timing of such interventions, counselling approaches, and…

To Leave or Stay? Examining the Role of Counseling and Reintegration Assistance in the Return Decision-Making of Migrants Ordered to Leave the Netherlands Policymakers across the European Union are seeking ways to incentivize third-country nationals with return orders to comply and voluntarily depart. This study examines whether and how two such measures—return counselling and reintegration assistance—can play a role in migrant decision-making, taking the Netherlands as a case study.

To Leave or Stay? Examining the Role of Counseling and Reintegration Assistance in the Return Decision-Making of Migrants Ordered to Leave the Netherlands

Policymakers across the European Union are seeking ways to incentivize third-country nationals with return orders to comply and voluntarily…

The Role of Counselling & Reintegration Support in Shaping Migrants’ Return Decisions Featuring a new study on the decisions of Iraqi and Nigerian migrants who left the Netherlands after receiving a return order, speakers on this webinar will discuss how timing, counseling approaches, and partnerships shape migrant decisions to returns, along with what practical steps can strengthen investments in this area.

The Role of Counselling & Reintegration Support in Shaping Migrants’ Return Decisions

Featuring a new study on the decisions of Iraqi and Nigerian migrants who left the Netherlands after receiving a return order, speakers on this webinar will discuss how timing, counseling approaches, and…

Europe’s Talent Race Starts at the Visa Counter The European Commission's forthcoming visa strategy must be complemented by national-level policy change given that EU-wide channels represent a small share of total legal migration pathways to Europe. To compete more fully for global talent, European governments will need faster, clearer, and more predictable visa procedures, as this short read explains.

Europe’s Talent Race Starts at the Visa Counter

The European Commission's forthcoming visa strategy must be complemented by national-level policy change given that EU-wide channels represent a small share of total legal migration pathways to Europe. To compete more fully for global talent,…

Achieving the "Quadruple Win": Labor Migration Strategies for Europe to Meet its Skill Needs Featuring discussion of a study that examines best practices for designing and managing labor migration corridors between EU Member States and partner countries, this webinar offers insights on how to connect employers and workers, promote skills development, protect migrant workers, and maximize benefits for both countries of origin and destination.

Achieving the "Quadruple Win": Labor Migration Strategies for Europe to Meet its Skill Needs

Featuring discussion of a study that examines best practices for designing and managing labor migration corridors between EU Member States and partner countries, this webinar offers insights on how to…

Best Practices for Designing and Managing Labor Migration Corridors to Europe Labor and skills shortages threaten the European Union’s economic growth. Attracting workers with sought-after skills from abroad will be an important means of addressing these challenges. This report examines best practices for designing and managing labor migration corridors between EU and non-EU countries, with the aim of benefiting countries of destination and origin, employers, and migrant workers alike.

Best Practices for Designing and Managing Labor Migration Corridors to Europe

Labor and skills shortages threaten the European Union’s economic growth. Attracting workers with sought-after skills from abroad will be an important means of addressing these challenges. This report examines best…

Moldova Shoulders Disproportionately Large Ukrainian Population, in the Shadow of the European Union and Russia One of Europe’s poorest countries, Moldova has hosted more displaced Ukrainians per capita than any other nation. More than one-quarter of the nearly 7 million Ukrainians who fled since Russia’s 2022 invasion have passed through the country, which notably sits outside the European Union and has far fewer financial and logistical resources than other hosts. This article provides an overview of the little country shouldering a disproportionate burden even as it is pulled between Russia and the European Union.

Moldova Shoulders Disproportionately Large Ukrainian Population, in the Shadow of the European Union and Russia

One of Europe’s poorest countries, Moldova has hosted more displaced Ukrainians per capita than any other nation. More than one-quarter of the nearly 7 million Ukrainians who fled since…

Achieving the "Quadruple Win": Labor Migration Strategies for Europe to Meet its Skill Needs Featuring discussion of a new study that examines best practices for designing and managing labor migration corridors between EU Member States and partner countries, this webinar will offer insights on how to connect employers and workers, promote skills development, protect migrant workers, and maximize benefits for both countries of origin and destination.

Achieving the "Quadruple Win": Labor Migration Strategies for Europe to Meet its Skill Needs

Featuring discussion of a new study that examines best practices for designing and managing labor migration corridors between EU Member States and partner countries, this webinar will offer insights on how…

🚨🎧 NEW EPISODE 🛟✊

Peter from The Channel Monitoring Project tells us how the new project plans to monitor people making the dangerous crossing over from France to England.

He tells us how @channelmonitoring.bsky.social hopes to counter the toxicity around this, and how anyone can get involved!

Reframing Return and Reintegration: Origin-Country Priorities and Strategies for Cooperation Many migrant-origin countries are developing policies and institutional structures to support their returning nationals, driven by safety concerns, emergencies, and in some cases pressure from destination countries. This policy brief examines these developments and identifies opportunities to better align local services, national policies, and donor support to strengthen international cooperation on migrant returns and reintegration.

Reframing Return and Reintegration: Origin-Country Priorities and Strategies for Cooperation

Many migrant-origin countries are developing policies and institutional structures to support their returning nationals, driven by safety concerns, emergencies, and in some cases pressure from destination…

Immigration Data Matters: How to Find the Most Accurate Resources

At this release of an updated version of the popular Immigration Data Matters guide, presenters discuss how to navigate and access the increasing number of data sources on immigration and immigrants in the United States and…

Last weekend, as the weather improved, more people tried to cross the Channel to reach safety in the UK. Four lost their lives in three separate incidents — one was a child. The government’s deterrent policies don’t work; they push people to take greater risks. We need #SafeRoutes now.

Immigration and Democracy: Rebuilding Trust in a Changing Europe

Featuring research on public attitudes toward immigration and institutional trust, this discussion examines the relationship between migration policy, integration approaches, public trust, and democratic resilience in Europe and…

Together, we can create a kinder Britain - place of solidarity, not hostility towards people crossing the Channel. #RefugeesAreWelcome #Refugees

We monitor the Channel and Kent's coast to record government actions and search and rescue incidents. Accountability protects lives. Please share to spread awareness. #Support #RefugeesWelcome

#HumanRights extend to people seeking safety. Depriving the #rights for those entering by dangerous routes is wrong. Demand safe #migration routes!

We are excited to announce the launch of The Channel Monitoring Project.
A new initiative to change reality on the ground and at sea. For the #safety, #dignity and #humanrights of those crossing the border in #smallboats. Counter the toxicity to tell the real story.