Clare Fenwick and Ruben Faller
Maastricht University / UNU-MERIT
Contemporary migration patterns and immigration to the U.S. is largely shaped by family reunification as it is the most important channel for permanent legal migration to the country.
Written by Thomas Huddleston, MIPEX Research Coordinator, Co-author and Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Group
New study “Paving the way” shows that integration policies have not improved in France and US since 2010. But both governments promise major reforms… Continue reading
Written by Thomas Huddleston, MIPEX Research Coordinator, Co-author and Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Group
This week, UNHCR launched a global campaign to end statelessness. MIPEX finds that several EU countries, Canada, and the US could do more to legally protect their citizens. Continue reading
Written by Thomas Huddleston, MIPEX Research Coordinator, Co-author and Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Group
Without legal procedural time limits for family reunion, the United States has created one of the longest backlogs of most developed countries of immigration. Continue reading
Written by Thomas Huddleston, MIPEX Research Coordinator, Co-author and Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Group
This Monday, the Migrant Integration Policy Index will be launched in the US with a public debate in the nation’s capital. MIPEX finds that once immigrants get a legal status in the US, the path to citizenship is still not paved with gold, as many Americans readily assume in the often vitriolic debates over immigration. Without a comprehensive integration strategy, America is falling behind many other leading countries of immigration. Continue reading
Written by Thomas Huddleston, MIPEX Research Coordinator, Co-author and Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Group
Thanks to the US Immigrant Integration and Citizenship Grants Program, the basic US citizenship test has been ranked as more professional than tests in most countries in the MIPEX study. Unless the Program is restored in future Federal budgets, the US citizenship test may set less favorable conditions for legal immigrants to learn and pass at the same successful rates as before. Despite the severe budget shortfalls in Europe, the report did not find that any European country completely withdrew national funding for citizenship courses over the past three years of economic crisis. Continue reading