Migrants, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

Global Trade

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

Kemal Kirişci and David Dollar

Monday, March 2, 2020

Internally displaced Syrians from western Aleppo countryside, ride on the back of a truck with belongings in Hazano near Idlib, Syria, February 11, 2020. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

Order from Chaos

Turkey’s unpalatable choices in Syria

Galip Dalay

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Turkish villager Sibel is pictured as she works in a cotton field near the border town of Reyhanli on the Turkish-Syrian border, in Hatay province, November 4, 2012. Despite the conflict on the Syrian side of the border, cotton harvest is still underway in Turkey's southern border province of Hatay. During early October, the Turkish military launched a retaliatory strike on Syria after a mortar bomb fired from Syrian soil landed in the countryside in Hatay. Some Syrian refugees work at cotton fields together with Turkish villagers in the border region as cottons pickers. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (TURKEY - Tags: AGRICULTURE POLITICS)

Order from Chaos

A plausible solution to the Syrian refugee crisis

Kemal Kirişci

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Report

Refugees as assets not burdens: The role of policy

Dany Bahar and Meagan Dooley

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Reports

Report

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

Kemal Kirişci

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

Natan Cabral, 5, stands on the cracked ground of the Boqueirao reservoir in the Metropolitan Region of Campina Grande, Paraiba state, Brazil, February 13, 2017. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino SEARCH "BRAZIL DROUGHT" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC1BC8B7DB20

Report

The climate crisis, migration, and refugees

John Podesta

Thursday, July 25, 2019

Israel

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

Dany Bahar

December 2018

Migrants set off on foot for the border with Austria from Budapest, Hungary, September 4, 2015. Hundreds of migrants broke out of a Hungarian border camp on Friday and others set off on foot from Budapest as authorities scrambled to contain a migrant crisis that has brought Europe?s asylum system to breaking point. Hungary says it is enforcing European Union rules that it must register all migrants caught crossing Hungary?s borders, but thousands are refusing and demand they be allowed to continue their journey to western Europe from war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The European Union normally allows free movement between the 26 countries of its Schengen border-free zone, but its rules require asylum seekers to register in the first country where they arrive and remain until they are processed. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo - LR2EB94125QO3

Migrants, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

The Global Compact on Refugees: The role of cities

Jessica Brandt and Joanna Henderson

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Blog Posts

FILE PHOTO: A Syrian refugee woman stands outside a tent at a camp in Bar Elias, in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon January 13, 2020. Picture taken January 13, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo

Future Development

Sharing the burden of the global refugee crisis

Omer Karasapan

Monday, January 27, 2020

Syrian refugees pick up cotton from a field in the village of Bukulmez on the Turkish-Syrian border, in Hatay province, November 3, 2012. Despite the conflict on the Syrian side of the border, cotton harvest is still underway in Turkey's southern border province of Hatay. During early October, the Turkish military launched a retaliatory strike on Syria after a mortar bomb fired from Syrian soil landed in the countryside in Hatay. Some Syrian refugees work at cotton fields together with Turkish villagers in the border region as cottons pickers. Picture taken November 3, 2012. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (TURKEY - Tags: AGRICULTURE POLITICS) - GM1E8B509FD01

Order from Chaos

How to leverage trade concessions to improve refugee self-reliance and host community resilience

Kemal Kirişci

Sunday, December 15, 2019

Venezuelan migrant Andraimi Laya, 22, poses for a picture carrying her daughter Jessy, while they wait to process their documents at the Ecuadorian-Peruvian border service centre, before they continue their journey, on the outskirts of Tumbes, Peru, June 16, 2019. "I really was betting on Guaido. I was sure he was going to change the country," said Andraimi Laya, 22, her 2-year-old wiggling in her arms. When Peru's President Martin Vizcarra announced Venezuelans must have passports and visas to enter Peru starting June 15, Laya dropped everything. She put her dream of becoming a police officer on hold, sold her last valuable possession, her TV, and headed for Peru with her daughter. "I said, 'no, I'm not going to die here. This might be my last chance.'" Laya said. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins SEARCH "MOTHERS REFUGEE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC1AFBDF8380

Up Front

Venezuela refugee crisis to become the largest and most underfunded in modern history

Dany Bahar and Meagan Dooley

Monday, December 9, 2019

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Events

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

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM CET

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

Washington, DC

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2012

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Experts

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

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Multimedia

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’

Dany Bahar

Friday, November 2, 2018

Furaq, 22, who fled from Mosul, holds his eight-moth-old son Yasser, who was born under Islamic State rule and has no identity documents recognised by Iraqi authorities, in Khazer refugee camp, Iraq November 11, 2016. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra SEARCH "CALIPHATE CHILDREN" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - S1BEUMYRHRAA

Podcast Episode

Trump cuts refugee admissions to a historic low

Jessica Brandt

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

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