Migration

Upcoming Events

Local Voices, National Debate: How Chicagoland Views Immigration

Hybrid EVENT

Craig Kafura and Beatriz Ponce de León discuss new Chicago Council survey data on immigration attitudes in the Chicago area and what local opinion tells us about one of America's most debated issues.

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People hold signs and flags at a protest opposing "Operation Midway Blitz" and the presence of ICE, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025, in Chicago.

Erin Hooley / AP

Jul

16

The World at Our Door: Identity, Diaspora, and the Global Conversation

In-Person EVENT

Join the Emerging Leaders community in Pilsen for a tour and discussion at the National Museum of Mexican Art.

Pilsen residents walk in the 2025 Pilsen Mexican Independence Day parade on September 6, 2025.

Carolyn Kaster / AP

Jul

17

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Past Events

The Border at the Ballot Box

PAST EVENT VIDEO

Election 2024

Clifford Young, Katie Tobin, Andrew Selee, and Marco López discuss how immigration is shaping elections around the world this year, including the US presidential election.

Sep 24

Marco López, Andrew Selee, Katie Tobin, and Clifford Young on stage at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs discussing how immigration is shaping elections around the world this year, including the US presidential election.

Ana Miyares Photography

Justice For All: Exploring Impunity in the Middle East and North Africa

PAST EVENT VIDEO

Experts discuss impunity and accountability throughout the Middle East and North Africa in the 21st century.

Mar 7

A sit-in in front of the Banque du Liban in Beirut, Lebanon on January 25, 2023.

Reuters

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Commentary

October 16, 2025

How America's Retreat from Refugee Protection Undermines Global Stability

Analysis

by John Slocum

In reshaping its approach to asylum and refugee resettlement, the United States is signaling a departure from the principles it once championed and risking erosion of international norms.

A Central American migrant woman cries in frustration before being removed by police from a house controlled by human smugglers, to transfer her and other occupants to a government shelter from which they will be returned to their native country, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Saturday, July 3, 2021.

Christian Chavez / AP

Migration

August 12, 2025

How Immigrants View America's Global Role

BLOG

Running Numbers by Lama El Baz

Survey data show that regardless of when they arrived in the United States, immigrants embrace a shared vision for US foreign policy.

People view the Statue of Liberty in the distance

Mark Lennihan / AP

Public Opinion

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Research

June 4, 2026

Most Americans Disagree with Trump and the Republican Base on Immigration Policies

RESEARCH

Public Opinion Survey by Coauthors

While most Republicans echo Trump's view that immigration negatively impacts the United States, a majority of Americans feel differently.

a guard stands in front of the US-Mexico border wall

Gregory Bull / AP

Public Opinion

October 9, 2025

American Support for Legal Immigration Reaches New Heights

RESEARCH

Public Opinion Survey by Coauthors

While majorities of Democrats and Independents support a path to citizenship for immigrants living and working in the United States illegally, only four in 10 Republicans agree.