Despite wide attention to the global refugee and migrant crisis, there has been little research of one key group that facilitates the movement of migrants: the smugglers. In brand new book published by Oxford University Press authors Peter Tinti...
Life for some of the most vulnerable people on the planet just got measurably more difficult. The new executive order that re-instates a travel ban from six Muslim majority countries also imposes a months long pause on all refugee resettlement to...
More than a week after President Trump turned airports into a battleground by signing an Executive Order aimed to drastically curtailing immigration into the US, the fallout continues. A nationwide temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge in Washington...
The UN Refugee Agency just calculated the global impact of Donald Trump’s new executive order. As many as 20,000 people will be prevented from resettling to the United States during over the next four months. This week alone, over 800...
Princeton Lyman was a long serving US Diplomat who has become one of the leading experts on African politics and policy. He most recently served as President Obama’s special envoy to Sudan and South Sudan from 2011 to 2013; but...
This week, President Trump made good on several campaign promises to start building a wall on the US-Mexico border and begin proceedings to crackdown on undocumented migrants and so-called Sanctuary cities around the US. But amid the discussions of those...
Over the past three months, an average of more than 2,000 South Sudanese a day have crossed into Uganda, seeking safety from bloodshed at home. Aid groups and government agencies are scrambling to shelter and feed everyone. The influx has...
Amid all the meetings and events on migration last week at the UN, a major development went largely unnoticed. The International Organization of Migration formally joined the UN as a related agency, adding another branch to the UN family tree....
This is Barack Obama’s last UN General Assembly, and it comes amid the worst refugee crisis since the advent of the United Nations 71 years ago. There are some 65 million people forcibly displaced around the world. The single largest cohort...