Migrants, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

Migrant workers clean fields amid an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the Salinas Valley near Salinas, California, U.S., March 30, 2020. Picture taken March 30, 2020. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Future Development

Less gratitude, please. How COVID-19 reveals the need for migration reform

Friday, May 22, 2020

A migrant sells old shoes as he sits on the side of a road, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during the holy month of Ramadan in Misrata, Libya May 3, 2020. Picture taken May 3, 2020. REUTERS/Ayman Al-Sahili

Future Development

Libya and its migrants confront new threats

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Tae Phoenix of Seattle holds a sign referring to the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington where immigrants are held protests outside the Washington state capitol with family and others concerned about the safety and health of inmates as efforts continue to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Olympia, Washington, U.S. April 11, 2020. REUTERS/Jason Redmond

Op-Ed

Suspending immigration would only hurt America’s post-coronavirus recovery

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

FILE PHOTO: A worker in a protective suit sprays disinfectant at Grand Bazaar, known as the Covered Bazaar, to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Istanbul, Turkey, March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/File Photo

Order from Chaos

Turkey and COVID-19: Don’t forget refugees

Kemal Kirişci and M. Murat Erdoğan

Monday, April 20, 2020

Reports

Refugees on a raft

Report

Refugees as assets not burdens: The role of policy

Dany Bahar and Meagan Dooley

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Turkish Workers in Cabbage Field

Report

How the EU and Turkey can promote self-reliance for Syrian refugees through agricultural trade

Monday, February 3, 2020

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Report

Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations

Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Hillel Rapoport

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

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Report

The climate crisis, migration, and refugees

Thursday, July 25, 2019

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at The Prime Minister's Israeli Innovation Summit in Tel Aviv, Israel October 25, 2018. REUTERS/Amir Cohen - RC126FB37470

Israel

Addressing Israel's growing demand for skills in the developing world

December 2018

Blog Posts

Workers in protective suits repair barriers that have been built to separate residential buildings from a street in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province and China's epicentre of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

Africa in focus

COVID-19, Africans’ hardships in China, and the future of Africa-China relations

Friday, April 17, 2020

Medical staff from Fundacion Jimenez Diaz hospital react as neighbours applaud from their balconies in support for healthcare workers, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Madrid, Spain, March 30, 2020. REUTERS/Sergio Perez

Up Front

Don’t forget to thank immigrants, too

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

SAADA, YEMEN- In the photos taken on February 4, 2020, it shows a displaced persons camp in Razih district in Saada province, Yemen, on February 4, 2020. In Yemen, 12 percent of the population is displaced after almost four years of conflict and 4.7 million children need humanitarian assistance to continue their education. Across the country, two million children do not go to school.

Future Development

Yemen’s civilians: Besieged on all sides

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

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Events

The Global Compact on Refugees and Opportunities for Syrian refugee self-reliance

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM CET

Brussels, Belgium

What’s next for Libya?

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM EDT

The immigration challenge in a divided Europe

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM EDT

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Related Books

The Consequences of Chaos

By Elizabeth G. Ferris and Kemal Kirişci

2016

Rethinking National Identity in the Age of Migration

By Bertelsmann Stiftung

2013

Transitional Justice and Displacement

By Megan Bradley

2012

Experts

Kemal Kirişci

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, The Turkey Project

Dany Bahar

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

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Global Trade

To help Syrian refugees, Turkey and the EU should open more trading opportunities

Kemal Kirişci and David Dollar

Monday, March 2, 2020

Workers of the health sector take part in a protest due to the shortages of basic medical supplies and against the government of Venezuelas President Nicolas Maduro, outside a hospital in Caracas, Venezuela November 19, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins - RC2GED9PK8S0

Podcast Episode

Interview with Colombia’s top official for the Venezuelan refugee crisis

Dany Bahar and Felipe Muñoz

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Central Americans, part of a caravan trying to reach the U.S., stand near the Mexican border gate on the bridge between Guatemala and Mexico.

Migrants, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

The facts about the ‘migrant caravan’

Friday, November 2, 2018

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