Migration is a development challenge. About 184 million people—2.3 percent of the world’s population—live outside of their country of nationality. Almost half of migrants live in and a significant ...
17 December 2024 - Every year, millions of people leave their countries of origin to move abroad. The reasons and circumstances that motivate or compel people to migrate are diverse. Some leave in ...
WASHINGTON, April 25, 2023—Populations across the globe are aging at an unprecedented pace, making many countries increasingly reliant on migration to realize their long-term growth potential, ...
Alejandro Portes is Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of (Emeritus) Sociology at Princeton University and Professor of Law and Distinguished Scholar of Arts and Sciences at the ...
On September 25, 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which commits Member States to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions. Those whose needs ...
Migration has always been an integral part of humanity’s history and success. As of last year, more than 300 million people had legally relocated in search of greater opportunity—as migrants—or to ...
Senior Researcher, Migration and Development, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), United Nations University Sonja Fransen received funding from ...
NEW YORK, September 15 (UNHCR) - UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has called on governments to ensure that refugees caught up in migratory flows have access to national asylum ...
As my airplane flew low over the flatlands of western Michigan on a dreary December afternoon, sunbursts splintered the soot-toned clouds and made mirrors out of the flooded fields below. There was ...