Immigration

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Up Front

Looming caregiving challenges demand innovative immigration policies

Coura Fall

Friday, July 8, 2022

People walk on the esplanade of La Defense, in the financial and business district, west of Paris, France, October 6, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau - RC1B9BB86D30

Up Front

Class Notes: The impact of unconditional cash transfers, improving student outcomes, and more

Beyond Deng and Richard V. Reeves

Thursday, June 23, 2022

FILE PHOTO: A researcher plants a semiconductor on an interface board during a research work to design and develop a semiconductor product at Tsinghua Unigroup research centre in Beijing, China, February 29, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo

Up Front

Smarter immigration policies could help alleviate the semiconductor shortage

Greg Wright, Dany Bahar, and Ian Seyal

June 17, 2022

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Events

Why foreign talent is critical to national security: A conversation with Joseph Votel and Christine Fox

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

Who will care for aging baby boomers? Immigrants.

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM EDT

The border within: The economics of immigration in an age of fear

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM EST

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Journey into America

By Akbar Ahmed

2011

Brain Gain

By Darrell M. West

2011

The Obama Administration and the Americas

Edited by Abraham F. Lowenthal, Ted Piccone, and Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead; Foreword by Strobe Talbott

2009

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Experts

Kristin F. Butcher

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Gabriel R. Sanchez

David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Governance Studies

Dany Bahar

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

Associate Professor of Practice of International and Public Affairs - Brown University

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A group of people rally outside the United States Supreme Court in Washington, DC, USA on Thursday, June 18, 2020. The Court ruled on Thursday that United States President Donald J. Trump could not immediately end the DACA program. Photo by Stefani Reynolds/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

Podcast Episode

Our Nation of Immigrants: Solving the immigration challenge

John Hudak

Friday, September 25, 2020

Roofers work on new homes at a residential construction site in the west side of the Las Vegas Valley in Las Vegas, Nevada April 5, 2013. The once-beleaguered Las Vegas housing market has been on fire since investment firms began buying homes here some eight months ago. Picture taken April 5, 2013. To match Special Report VEGAS-HOUSING/ REUTERS/Steve Marcus (UNITED STATES - Tags: REAL ESTATE BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION)

Podcast Episode

Our Nation of Immigrants: The economics of immigration

John Hudak

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

March 29, 2020; El Paso, Texas, USA; View of the Rio Grande between El Paso, left, and Juarez, right, during the COVID-19 pandemic health crisis. Mandatory Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre-USA TODAY NETWORK

Podcast Episode

Our Nation of Immigrants: On the border

John Hudak

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

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More on Immigration

Fatoumata Jangana, from Gambia, claps holding an American flag during a naturalization ceremony at Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, Roosevelt Island in New York City, U.S., June 16, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Diaspora bonds: An innovative source of financing?

Witney Schneidman, Admassu Tadesse, and Abyssinia Lissanu

Friday, May 27, 2022

Researchers work in the Aging and Regeneration lab at the Institute for Stem Cell and Regeneration of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing, China, January 12, 2021. Picture taken January 12, 2021. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang

Looking beyond borders to understand impacts of science on society

Yangyang Cheng, Ryan Hass, and Jude Blanchette

Monday, May 23, 2022

Protesters rally to call attention to Asian-American discrimination and remember the Asian-American lives lost in a series of shootings last night in Atlanta, in Chinatown, Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, March 17, 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic. Last night a White gunman allegedly targeted Asian-American owned massage parlors around Atlanta killing eight in a string of shootings, including six women of Asian heritage, as reported hate crimes against Asian-Americans have risen dramatically during the pandemic. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Confronting the invisibility of anti-Asian racism

Jennifer Lee

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Guatemalan refugees talk to U.S. border patrol.

Rural poverty, climate change, and family migration from Guatemala

Sarah Bermeo, David Leblang, and Gabriela Nagle Alverio

Monday, April 4, 2022

Displaced people riding in trucks and cars head back to their homes in Hawija, on the outskirts of Kirkuk, Iraq October 18, 2017. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani

10 economic characteristics of refugee arrivals and returns

Harun Onder

Friday, February 25, 2022

Trucks pick up shipping containers at the Port of Savannah in Georgia. The supply chain crisis has created a backlog of nearly 80,000 shipping containers at this port, the third-largest container port in the United States, with around 20 ships anchored off the Atlantic coast, waiting to offload their cargo. A shortage of truck drivers to transport goods from warehouses to retailers has caused shipping containers to be backed up at the port. (Photo by Paul Hennessy / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

President Biden, tear down those walls and let immigrants take jobs in high demand

Dany Bahar

Thursday, February 24, 2022

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Reports

Why foreign talent is critical to national security: A conversation with Joseph Votel and Christine Fox

Who will care for aging baby boomers? Immigrants.

The border within: The economics of immigration in an age of fear

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Governance Studies

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

Associate Professor of Practice of International and Public Affairs - Brown University