Migration Policy Institute Podcasts

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MPI discusses interesting developments and seek to peer around the corner on pressing migration topics in conversations with top experts

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Reaching Irregular Migrants in Europe: Harnessing the Value of Counselling

Feb 04 2025 67 mins

This webinar brings together policymakers, practitioners, and other experts to explore the value of outreach and counselling to irregular populations in Europe and the policy goals and approaches used.

Changing Climate, Changing Migration: Stories of Climate Change and Migration to the U.S.-Mexico Border

Jan 30 2025 24 mins

Natural disasters and other impacts of climate change are already affecting migration, but often in complex ways. This episode, we speak with Julia Neusner, a lawyer and researcher with the International Refugee Assistance Project. She has conducted surveys and interviews with migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border about whether, where, and how they have experienced climate impacts, an

The Biden Legacy on Immigration: A Complex Picture

Dec 27 2024 59 mins

Immigration has been a central issue for the Biden presidency, with the administration challenged by record levels of arrivals of asylum seekers and other migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border while also seeking to modernize the bureaucracy that manages the U.S. immigration system and rebuild a refugee resettlement system that had plunged to a record low under the prior administration

Emerging and Established Efforts by States to Expand Language Access

Dec 23 2024 60 mins

For the more than 25 million U.S. residents who have limited proficiency in English, language barriers can prevent or hinder access to critical public services such as education, health care, emergency response, and the legal system. Federal, state, and local government agencies also regularly need to communicate with linguistically diverse communities to conduct outreach, deliver

The Future of Complementary Pathways: Paving the Way for Growth

Dec 19 2024 61 mins

Successive displacement crises over the past decade, combined with limited growth in traditional resettlement, have highlighted the urgent need for alternative legal pathways for people in need of international protection. Civil-society organizations across Europe, often in collaboration with governments and other stakeholders, have launched various refugee sponsorship initiatives

To Stay or Go: Factors Shaping Ukrainian Refugees’ Intentions Whether to Return to Ukraine

Dec 18 2024 57 mins

Despite the ongoing war and heavy destruction across Ukraine, some of the more than 6 million Ukrainians who fled after Russia’s invasion in February 2022 are already returning to Ukraine. As of August 2024, an estimated 1 million Ukrainians had returned to their country from abroad, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). While most visit briefly, to see

Charting a Smart Agenda for Managing Climate Migration

Dec 18 2024 59 mins

A growing body of evidence links climate events such as sea-level rise or droughts to migration—both within and across borders. As climate change amplifies the risks and severity of disasters, policymakers should better understand their options for managing how environmental change interacts with mobility. Held ahead of the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference, this web

Changing Climate, Changing Migration: The World Is Going Greener. What Role Can Immigrants Play?

Dec 12 2024 23 mins

Many countries need more workers to fill jobs in clean energy and other sectors that are critical in the fight against a warming planet. Immigrants may be one part of the solution to the challenges posed by climate change. But governments have been slow to ramp up responses to recruit, train, or accredit foreign-born workers necessary for the green transition, with one model estima

Changing Climate, Changing Migration: The Reverse of Climate Migration: Should There Be a Right Not to Be Displaced amid Climate Change?

Nov 15 2024 24 mins

The international humanitarian protection system that was built in the aftermath of World War II does not offer protection for people displaced by climate change. In this episode, former UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees T. Alexander Aleinikoff, who is now Executive Dean of The New School for Social Research, calls the refugee system “broken.” Rather than expanding to ac

Changing Climate, Changing Migration: How We Talk about Climate Migration Shapes Treatment of “Climate Refugees”

Oct 04 2024 23 mins

The ways in which people talk about climate migration can affect how individuals are treated. While many activists frame climate migrants as blameless victims of circumstance and even refer to them as “climate refugees,” this approach does not always lead to public sympathy. Moreover, highlighting the role of climate in displacement can unintentionally cause a backlash among ho