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Migration

News, commentary, analysis, events, public opinion, and perspectives on issues and current events related to immigration and migration. 

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 & Analysis

How America's Retreat from Refugee Protection Undermines Global Stability

BLOG
Global Insight 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

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

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.

Protesters gather outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement regional field office in Burlington, Mass
Charles Krupa / AP
Migration

Republican Concerns over Immigration Hit All-Time High

RESEARCH
Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura

Republican views of immigrants and immigration policy largely diverge from overall American attitudes.

Migrants wait in line adjacent to the border fence under the watch of the Texas National Guard
Andres Leighton / AP
Public Opinion
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Experts

John Slocum 

Nonresident Senior Fellow
Council expert John Slocum
Expertise
Migration
Social Media

Thomas G. Weiss 

Distinguished Fellow
Council expert Thomas Weiss
Expertise
Migration
Defense and Security
Global Politics
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