Executive Director, Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF). Chair, Board of Trustees, Raleigh International. Professor in Conflict, Peace and Security, University of Maastricht. Editor, Journal of Refugee Studies.
The evacuation of foreign citizens and Afghan allies from Kabul has been done under a tight deadline and the risk of terrorist attacks. Since August 14, 2021, about 120,000 people have be...
Around the world, existing and sometimes new violent extremist groups are using the COVID-19 pandemic to accelerate their rhetoric against governments, minorities and international organi...
What are the current challenges facing the phenomenon of global migration? How has the debate around migration changed in the last 10 years and how will it continue to develop over the ne...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is unfolding at a time when human mobility is increasing and, in many instances, becoming more precarious. Last year, the world saw 250 million internatio...
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, firmó un Decreto Ejecutivo que prohibió temporalmente el ingreso de refugiados sirios, suspendió por completo el programa de admisión de ref...
本文是2017年世界经济论坛年会的一部分。 有证据表明，移民对接收国的公民个人，经济发展和社区建设都有好处。 在适当的条件下，移民可以帮助接收国改善生活条件，促进经济增长与发展，并增强社会与文化活力。 现在，我们所面临的挑战是，要想塑造出适当的条件，就需要相应的投资; 但面对当前的“地缘经济”条件（裁员、短缩的选举周期、强大的反移民政治、充满怀疑的大众），政府想要推动...
The current refugee crisis is the most significant since the second world war. This discussion is loud and complex, and thin on facts. Here we present some conclusions drawn from visualiz...
Last Friday, America's President Trump issued an Executive Order, temporarily banning the entry of Syrian refugees, suspending the entire US refugee admission programme for 120 days, sign...
Mucho ha cambiado desde que escribí un artículo sobre la crisis de los refugiados en Europa en 2015. El artículo destacaba un número récord de refugiados, principalmente de Siria, distrib...
Much has changed in the year since I wrote an article looking back on Europe’s refugee crisis in 2015. The article highlighted record numbers of refugees, mainly from Syria, unevenly dist...
The evidence is resounding that migration is good for individuals, economies, and communities. Under the right conditions, migration can improve lives, enhance development and economic gr...
Al menos 4000 personas se han ahogado en el Mediterráneo en 2016, una cifra récord. Además, hay crisis mucho mayor de refugiados que se está produciendo en Turquía, Jordania, Líbano, Áfri...
Yesterday was International Migrants Day.
The European Commission has decided to start returning migrants from other European countries back to Greece, lifting a ban on the practice that was put in place in 2011. The decision is ...
We had the great privilege and pleasure to work for Jan O Karlsson, the former Swedish minister for Migration and Development, when he chaired the Global Commission on International Migra...
