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Migration

The number of people fleeing poverty, persecution, war, famine or natural desasters – or simply looking for better living conditions has increased precipitously in recent years, and is likely to increase further. So far, the global community is lacking a concerted strategy to deal with this trend. These summaries present the latest research on mass migration as well as policy recommendations.

Summaries

8 Podcast

Why Immigrants Are America’s Superpower
Wendy Edelberg and David Dollar
Brookings Institution, 2023
8 Book

The Ungrateful Refugee
What Immigrants Never Tell You
Dina Nayeri
Catapult, 2019
8 Book

The Border Within
The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear
Kalee Thompson and Tara Watson
University of Chicago Press, 2021
8 Article

A Long Commute
Immigrants Do More Good than Harm When They Enter a Country’s Job Market
Çağlar Özden
IMF, 2015
8 Book

A River in Darkness
One Man’s Escape from North Korea
Masaji Ishikawa
Amazon Publishing, 2018
8 Video

The Rise of the Refugee Startup
Economist Films
Economist Films, 2018
7 Video

The New Normal – Global Migration
Solveigh Hieronimus
DLD Conferences, 2016
8 Article

Global Migration Drives Global Democracy
How Workers Abroad Weaken Dictators Back Home
Abel Escribà-Folch et al.
Foreign Affairs, 2021
8 Book

How Population Change Will Transform Our World
Sarah Harper
Oxford UP, 2019
10 Article

The 21st Century Gold Rush
How the Refugee Crisis Is Changing the World Economy.
Malia Politzer and Emily Kassie
Huffington Post Highline, 2016
8 Article

Europe’s Libya Problem
How to Stem the Flow of Migrants
Sabina Henneberg and Mieczyslaw P. Boduszynski
Foreign Affairs, 2017
9 Article

Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the US
Hannah Dreier traveled to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota and Virginia for this story and spoke to more than 100 migrant child workers in 20 states.
Hannah Dreier
The New York Times, 2023