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Keeping immigrants out of the US may be a trillion-dollar mistake
There’s a mystery at the heart of the current global economy. “A guy hammering a nail into a board, literally doing the same physical act, the same task, the same occupation to build the same...
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Trump’s border wall is getting a taxpayer-funded paint job
A recent directive from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed a summer project for soldiers near the country’s border with Mexico: a makeover for Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” border...
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A boat captain is facing 20 years in prison for rescuing migrants in the...
A petition demanding that Italy drop criminal charges against a boat captain who has rescued hundreds of migrants in the Mediterranean has gathered more than 110,000 signatures. Prosecuting Pia Klemp,...
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The US has a special immigration exception just for Cubans
The captain of Cuba’s national soccer team “defected” to the United States this week while in Los Angeles for an international soccer tournament. After the team’s first match in the Concacaf Gold Cup,...
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More African migrants are trying to enter the US through the Mexican border
Each year, officials at Catholic Charities of San Antonio, a social justice and community services organization focused on meeting the physical needs of people in this historic south-central Texas...
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The “concentration camp” language debate is the wrong fight
You know a nation’s in bad way when citizens are debating the definition of the term “concentration camps.” Yet this is where Americans find themselves today. The reason for the unsavory debate is the...
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Beijing is not the most popular Chinese city for passengers flying to or from...
In 2010, only a handful of airlines operated direct flights between a few African nations and Beijing. Today, Beijing isn’t even the busiest Chinese city for passengers traveling to or from Africa. Air...
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A stranded migrant rescue ship used its route to send a secret message to the...
The Ocean Viking, a Norwegian ship managed by the nonprofits Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and SOS Méditerranée, is one of several migrant and refugee rescue vessels stranded in the Mediterranean. The...
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Nearly 2 million people in India have just been rendered stateless by a...
On Saturday (August 31) in the northeastern state of Assam, in India, authorities published the latest version of the National Register of Citizens (NRC). The list is pretty much what it sounds like—a...
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Human smugglers in Texas allegedly terrorized captive migrants with Tasers...
Three accused human smugglers allegedly held more than 100 undocumented migrants captive on a ranch in South Texas, where they menaced them with Tasers and held guns to their heads. That’s according to...
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Why Chinese are traveling to Africa, and why Africans are traveling to China
Direct airline flights between Africa and China have jumped over 600% in the past decade. Planes today are not only full of workers and traders seeking prosperity, but also short-term tourists and...
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The share of the global migrant population forced to leave their homes is...
The total number of migrants continues to rise in all regions of the world, according to a new UN report (pdf). That’s not so surprising given this ever more connected world. What is worrying, however,...
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The rise of China has created a new kind of Chinatown
This story is part of an ongoing series on how China is reshaping our world. Chinatowns aren’t what they used to be. A newer, more…
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A three-pronged strategy to upskill India’s workforce
As structural, demographic, and technological shifts transform the nature of work, new entrants to India’s labour force will have to be skilled and made employable. Around 70 million people are...
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The frightening phenomenon of ‘climigration’
Climate change increasingly threatens communities all over the world. News of fires, floods, and coastal erosion devastating lives and livelihoods seems almost constant. The latest fires in Queensland...
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With Brexit looming, many EU nationals have yet to apply for settled status...
For the more than 3 million citizens of EU countries who live in the UK, Brexit is a bureaucratic nightmare. In order to stay in Britain past June 2021, EU citizens have to apply for special status, a...
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Not a single refugee was resettled in the US last month
Last month, for the first time since records began, the number of refugees resettled in the US hit zero. The nosedive is the result of a State Department freeze on admissions, according to a World...
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Americans have stopped relocating, and it could dramatically affect society
The story of America is one of moving. A total of 13.6% of Americans today were born in another country, and most of us are descended from immigrants. This story of migration also includes moving...
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The New York metro area has the lowest rate of population turnover in the US
New Yorkers are unusually well rooted. In the typical year from 2013 to 2017, only about 2.4% of the people who live in New York’s metropolitan area, which includes Newark, Long Island and nearby...
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Europeans say immigrants contribute more to the region’s culture than its...
The global immigration debate often centers around two questions: Do immigrants enrich the country’s culture? And do they improve the country’s economy? Data shows that Europeans are more likely to say...
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These were the largest migrations of the 2010s
The 2010s were a decade defined by migration. At the start of the decade about 220 million people lived outside of their country of birth. By the end of the decade that number had risen to 270 million,...
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Brexit is provoking a record-breaking surge of Brits seeking EU passports
Three and a half years after the Brexit vote, the UK is most definitely leaving the EU at the end of January 2020. The latest data suggest that Brits afraid of losing freedom of movement within the...
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When will Texas surpass California as the most populous US state?
California has been the most populous state in the US since the 1960s. On current trends, that may not last much longer. The US Census recently released estimates of population growth for US states...
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What kind of immigrants do Europeans want?
Europeans may appreciate the cultural diversity immigrants bring to their countries but, if given a choice, they still prefer immigrants that look similar to them. That is the latest finding from a...
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Belarus is perplexed by Trump’s proposed travel ban
Two years ago, US president Donald Trump closed US borders to citizens of seven countries. Now, seven other countries across the world are rumored to be added to the list in the coming days, according...
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All over the world, countries are imposing travel bans on visitors who’ve...
On almost every continent, countries have taken the dramatic step of closing their borders to most, if not all, flights from China, or to foreign visitors who’ve been to China or certain parts of it....
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Highly-educated women are now more likely to have jobs abroad than...
The world’s largest economies want highly-educated immigrants, and women are seeing an edge. Immigrant women with a high level of education now outnumber immigrant men without high-school diplomas in...
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Migrant camps on Mexican border are scrambling to avert “mass infection” from...
Self-isolating isn’t straightforward at the encampment in Matamoros, a Mexican border city home to about 2,500 people living in tents, waiting on US asylum and immigration claims.There are no confirmed...
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These are the countries most affected by the falling remittances sparked by...
Remittances—the money immigrants send back to their home countries—will be lower this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Countries dependent on that cash have already started preparing for the...
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Coronavirus caused a 7,000% rise in global travel restrictions in a single month
The world has witnessed unprecedented restrictions on travel since the coronavirus outbreak grew into a global pandemic in January. And, according to data compiled by the International Organization for...
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Immigrants have already started leaving the US
Even before president Trump’s tweet announcing his intent to sign an executive order to “suspend immigration,” immigrants were leaving the US. The US’s foreign-born population shrank 1.9% in March...
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Citizens from rich countries are more likely to get US visas
To come to the US for business, tourism, or medical treatment, many travelers need to obtain a B visa. The travel document accounted for three of every four non-immigration visas the US issued since...
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In India’s financial capital, small businesses struggle to survive after the...
When Shantaram Prajapati’s brother took a Shramik Special train from Mumbai to Gorakhpur last month, it was a practical decision for the family. One brother would go home to their ageing parents, and...
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Let Hong Kong refugees into the US
It didn’t take long for authoritarianism to arrive in Hong Kong after China took its largest step toward annexing the island territory since the United Kingdom ceded control in 1997. Now, the fear is...
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Hong Kong is about to see a Tiananmen-era wave of migration
Mimi Lee knows what it’s like to suddenly make the move from Hong Kong across the world and build a life in an entirely new place. In the winter of 1987, Lee and her family settled in Toronto. Later,...
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The depressing new data on foreign populations in countries around the world
One in 10 people living in OECD countries were foreign nationals in 2018. Many are no longer there. The Covid-19 pandemic has been a magnetic force that is pushing immigrant workers out of their...
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It’s time to prepare cities for people uprooted by climate change
After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September 2017, thousands of people fled the island. The exact headcount, and how many of those moves were temporary or permanent, is hard to nail down. Budget...
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The climate change solutions for the world’s tiniest, most vulnerable nations
Back in 2014, Anote Tong, then president of Kiribati, one of the world’s most low-lying nations, took a dramatic step to try and save his people from a future of sea level rise. He bought, for around...
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Covid-19 is shaking up the citizenship by investment industry
Before Covid-19 connections and money could buy almost anyone the right to live pretty much anywhere they wanted.The industry known today as CRBI—citizenship and residence by investment—began in 1984...
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The case for a billion Americans
Americans can’t agree on anything—but can they agree on more of themselves?Matt Yglesias, a policy journalist and co-founder of Vox, argues that they can in a new book, One Billion Americans: The case...
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Countries are competing for skilled migrants fleeing crackdowns in Hong Kong...
In his seminal 1970 book Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, the economist Albert O. Hirschman laid out the three different ways an individual might react to a situation they’re unhappy with: leaving;...
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Covid-19 is robbing young African soccer talent of their big-time European...
Emmanuel Izochukwu, a 22-year-old forward, had planned in June to take his soccer career to the next level by making a move from Nigeria to Macedonia. Instead, he was met with crushing...
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Singapore’s migrant workers are basically in coronavirus jail
Singapore is signaling to the world that it’s ready to get back to business, even if it means having to get creative with safe pandemic workarounds.Later this month, the country will move to the final...
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Contemporary hip hop embodies a dynamic Pan Africanism
Hip hop is many things. Most recently is has become more of commodity, a commercial venture, but it has always been and remains a global culture that represents local realities. It speaks about where...
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Where Afghan—and all other—refugees are going
The US exit from Afghanistan, left in its wake a surge of refugees fleeing the Taliban. Some countries in Europe have said they have taken enough migrants fleeing Afghanistan and other war zones in...
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The World Bank says climate change could displace more than 200 million people
Climate change impacts are projected to displace 216 million people in developing regions by 2050, according to a new report from the World Bank.Driven primarily by sea level rise and water scarcity,...
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South Asian migrant workers lost $25 million in wage theft during the pandemic
It’s an open secret that the covid-19 pandemic has robbed people of livelihoods. A new report now quantifies some of that loss in south Asia: $25 million (Rs187 million).Between June 2020 and December...
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What ancient DNA reveals about migration in Africa
Every person alive on the planet today is descended from people who lived as hunter-gatherers in Africa.The continent is the cradle of human origins and ingenuity, and with each new fossil and...
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Where will the Indian students evacuated from Ukraine now study?
Indian students evacuated from Ukraine remain a worried lot even after narrowly escaping the ravages of war.There are nearly 20,000 such youngsters, a large majority studying medicine till recently,...
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The UK plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda
The British government is trying to solve its issues with migration with a £120 million plan to relocate asylum seekers arriving in the UK to Rwanda.Under the proposal, anyone arriving in the UK...
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