Engaging Local Voices: Letting Cities Inform National Refugee Resettlement Goals
With the Global Refugee Forum (GRF) approaching, most of the planning focus has been on resettlement and complementary pathways pledges that will be announced at the December gathering and the number ...
16 Nov 202354min
A Passport to Opportunity: The Importance of Refugee Access to Travel Documents
Travel documents play an important role in international mobility, and for refugees serve as an essential gateway to a world of opportunities, from pursuing education and employment to reuniting with ...
15 Nov 202329min
Changing Climate, Changing Migration: Is Climate Migration a Homeland Security Threat?
Can climate-driven international migration pose a security threat? Former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff thinks so, but not necessarily because of the migrants themselves. Irregular...
27 Okt 202325min
20th Immigration Law & Policy Conference -Session- Humanitarian Parole and the Biden Administration’s New Lawful Pathways- Sept. 2023
Building on its humanitarian parole programs for the admission of Afghan and Ukrainian nationals, the Biden administration established such a program for Venezuelans in October 2022 and expanded it to...
26 Okt 20231h 13min
20th Immigration Law & Policy Conference -Session- Legal Representation as a Tool for Justice: Why Representation Matters - Sept. 2023
Full and fair access to immigration legal services is vital to ensure justice for asylum seekers and other migrants seeking protection in the immigration courts or immigration status before U.S. Citiz...
26 Okt 20231h 12min
20th Immigration Law & Policy Conference -Session- The United States & the World: Increasing Migration within the Western Hemisphere - Sept. 2023
Since 2010, no world region has experienced a greater relative increase in international migration than Latin America and the Caribbean. While much of that migration, driven in part by political and e...
26 Okt 202355min
20th Immigration Law & Policy Conference -Session- The States Rise: Florida and Other Governments Expand Their Role in the Immigration Arena- Sept. 2023
A new era of state policymaking and operational action on immigration has begun, led by Texas and Florida, which set off tensions with state and local officials elsewhere by busing and flying asylum s...
26 Okt 20231h 15min
20th Immigration Law & Policy Conference -Session- State of Play: Dynamism and Disorder - Sept. 2023
The U.S. immigration policy space has seen a high degree of dynamism—and disorder—over the past year. A raft of new humanitarian and legal immigration policies has been advanced amid record unauthoriz...
26 Okt 20231h 8min
