Migrants, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

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

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

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

Palestinian-Syrian refugee Ahmed, 27, his future wife Hanin, 18, and Hanin's mother Turki visit a pastry shop the day before their engagement party in Kilis, Turkey, March 10, 2017. Ahmed's and Hanin's journey started amid Syria's conflict and brought the two Palestinians from their homes in Damascus' suburbs to Turkey. They were introduced in the winter of 2017. As they lived in different cities, they texted for months before Ahmed took a 20-hour bus trip from Izmir to the border town of Kilis to meet her, which led to their engagement. REUTERS/Ekaterina Anchevskaya SEARCH "SYRIA MIGRANTS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC1460F5A5A0

Future Development

Turkey’s Syrian refugees—the welcome fades

Omer Karasapan

Monday, November 25, 2019

Reports

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

A former rebel (R), who now owns a clothing factory, oversees a worker in his workshop in Bogota in this photo taken on February 3, 2015. Fighters from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which is currently in peace talks with the government to end 51 years of war, face a complicated path to employment and a life away from crime as they try to reintegrate into society. Demobilized rebels are popular recruits for crime gangs and will have to overcome prejudices to become economically independent after they graduate from government reinsertion programs. Picture taken on February 3, 2015. REUTERS/Jose Miguel Gomez - GF10000135974

Migrants, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

Integrating Venezuelans into the Colombian labor market

Dany Bahar, Meagan Dooley, and Cindy Huang

Monday, December 3, 2018

Venezuela

Venezuela: A path out of misery

Dany Bahar, Ted Piccone, and Harold Trinkunas

October 2018

Blog Posts

People are seen ahead of Pope Francis' arrival for a prayer vigil with youth at the Soamandrakizay Mess site in Antananarivo, Madagascar, September 7, 2019. REUTERS/Yara Nardi TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC11253C5FF0

Africa in focus

Figure of the week: Migration and remittances in sub-Saharan Africa

Dhruv Gandhi

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Colombian coffee grower Jose Eliecer Sierra picks coffee fruits at a plantation in Pueblorrico, Colombia March 11, 2019. Picture taken March 11, 2019. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez - RC14ED1E2770

Future Development

Is informality bad for business?

Sandra Rozo and Hernan Winkler

Friday, October 11, 2019

Women wash leaves on the bank of the Matan Fada river ahead of the Argungu fishing festival in Kebbi State, north-west Nigeria March 14, 2008. Hundreds of local fishermen from around Nigeria and other neighbouring countries of Niger and Mali are expected to participate in traditional bare-hand fishing at the annual Argungu fishing festival. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye (NIGERIA) - GM1E43E1QW301

Africa in focus

Africa’s climate crisis, conflict, and migration challenges

Ahmadou Aly Mbaye

Friday, September 20, 2019

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Experts

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Multimedia

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

People protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court after the U.S. President Trump's travel ban was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., June 26, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis - RC162FF29270

Migrants, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

The Supreme Court upheld Trump’s travel ban. Now what?

Jessica Brandt

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

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Reports

What’s next for Libya?

The immigration challenge in a divided Europe

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TÜSİAD Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

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