Promising Alternatives to Irregular Migration: Expanding Temporary Worker Programs in Canada, Mexico, and Costa Rica

Promising Alternatives to Irregular Migration: Expanding Temporary Worker Programs in Canada, Mexico, and Costa Rica

Violence, insecurity, and economic pressures compel tens of thousands of migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras every year to seek better livelihoods and opportunities outside their countries of origin. Some may be eligible for humanitarian protection under the limited asylum systems in the region, but most cannot access existing legal migration pathways. Expanding temporary worker programs therefore can offer an important means to convert some irregular flows into legal ones.

While expanding U.S. temporary employment programs, such as H-2 seasonal visas, is central to establishing regional alternatives to irregular migration and filling domestic labor shortages, it is insufficient without the simultaneous expansion of similar programs in Canada, Mexico, and Costa Rica.

As part of a Migration Policy Institute project, Building a Regional Migration System, this webcast presents research findings from a report on temporary employment pathways for Central American migrants in Canada, Mexico, and Costa Rica. Speakers offer an analysis of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in Canada, the Border Worker Visa in Mexico, and Costa Rica’s Binational Agreement with Nicaragua, providing recommendations to improve these pathways and promote safe, orderly, and regular migration.

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Secondary Schools' Bilingual Gap: Promising Practices and a Path Forward

Secondary Schools' Bilingual Gap: Promising Practices and a Path Forward

Nearly 5.6 million students in U.S. public schools are classified as English Learners, and over 2.3 million are enrolled in secondary grades. Yet bilingual programs are heavily concentrated in the ele...

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Changing Climate, Changing Migration | Precedent or Cautionary Tale? The U.S. Climate-Driven Relocation of Isle de Jean Charles

Changing Climate, Changing Migration | Precedent or Cautionary Tale? The U.S. Climate-Driven Relocation of Isle de Jean Charles

In 2016, the U.S. federal government provided $48 million to relocate the climate-threatened Louisiana island of Isle de Jean Charles. The effort, which was the government’s first climate-driven commu...

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Changing Climate, Changing Migration | Fiji on the Front Lines of Climate Mobility

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Fiji has long been at the forefront of developing policies to help its residents voluntarily relocate to escape the extreme effects of climate change. The country, which is comprised of hundreds of is...

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Changing Climate, Changing Migration | How the World Is Learning to Respond Collectively to Climate Displacement

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The coordinated global response to climate change-driven displacement is relatively new. Just a few decades ago, virtually no governments were paying attention to the ways in which people were being d...

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World of Migration:  Why Is Sudan's Humanitarian Crisis Largely Invisible?

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Sudan is experiencing the world's largest displacement crisis, with nearly 14 million people forcibly displaced by civil war, famine, and acute food insecurity. Yet the scale of suffering has not tran...

25 Kesä 24min

World of Migration: When Sports and U.S. Immigration Policy Collide

World of Migration: When Sports and U.S. Immigration Policy Collide

The FIFA 2026 World Cup, co-hosted by the United States, Mexico, and Canada, is the largest in history and first to be co-organized by three countries. Yet for international fans, ever stricter U.S. i...

2 Kesä 28min

Changing Climate, Changing Migration: Climate Change Is Making People Sick. Can Migration Help?

Changing Climate, Changing Migration: Climate Change Is Making People Sick. Can Migration Help?

Climate change can be devastating for individuals’ health and safety. Climate-linked natural disasters can cause physical injuries and damage health-care systems, while slow-onset changes such as sea-...

26 Touko 34min

World of Migration: America’s Closing Door: Where Do Cuban Migrants Go Now?

World of Migration: America’s Closing Door: Where Do Cuban Migrants Go Now?

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