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On January 19, the U.S. State Department announced the launch of Welcome Corps, a new private refugee sponsorship pilot program. Under Welcome Corps, groups of at least five individuals and community organizations can sponsor refugees to the United States. The State Department’s announcement is a good start, but the pilot should be improved in several ways.
With 10 days left before their temporary “safe haven” status was set to expire, President Joe Biden has extended Hongkongers’ refuge in the United States by two years, noting “compelling foreign policy reasons”.
"The World We Became" is a speculative atlas and project on racial justice and climate crisis. Cowritten by 30 participants and the coleads of our 2021 Migrations Summer Institute, this project maps shared Black, Asian, Pacific, Palestinian, Latin American, Caribbean, and Indigenous futures.
The impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine is being felt as far away as Indian-administered Kashmir, where ornithologists like Cornell's Andrew Farnsworth see the conflict as contributing to a shortage of migratory birds which make their way each winter from Europe to the wetlands of the Kashmir Valley.
Farnsworth is a bird migration expert and senior research associate in Cornell's Lab of Ornithology.
“The devil will be in the details: How will the administration define a credible fear? How much time will people have to prepare for their hearing?” says Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law. “If only a few days or weeks, few people will be able to gather their evidence or find an attorney.”
Washington — The Biden administration on Tuesday proposed increasing application fees for employment-based visas and other immigration programs, in part to fund the adjudication of soaring numbers of asylum claims along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell showed this month that he’s thinking about how recent lower immigration has factored into the ongoing U.S. labor shortage, but he said it’s not appropriate for the Fed to call for increased legal immigration to help alleviate the shortage.
WASHINGTON – Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday temporarily blocked the Biden administration from ending the pandemic-era Title 42 immigration policy, leaving in doubt whether officials will continue to expel migrants over concerns about public health risks.
Fear of tracking and the use of digital tools in the context of public benefits in the U.S. are among the major barriers to immigrants accessing online resources and benefits more generally. This project was funded by the Migrations initiative and includes Migrations faculty leadership Stephen Yale-Loehr and Gunisha Kaur.
