The following presentation by Manuel Orozco, director of the Migration, Remittances, and Development program, identifies ten key facts that are important to understand the current debate over immigration to the US.
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El 10 de Mayo, el director del Programa de Migración, Remesas y Desarollo, Manuel Orozco ofreció su análisis al programa Ciclos CAP sobre la última alza en remesas hacia México.
This analysis offers a glimpse of the potential impact of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on US immigrants and family remittances. Past events involving worldwide crises can offer insight as to how this pandemic will likely affect remittance transfers. Considering migrants’ financial and health vulnerabilities as well as the forecast recession, a conservative estimate shows that remittances will register a -3 percent decline in 2020 relative to 2019, from $77 billion to $75 billion.
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Michael Shifter discussed in Minneapolis for Global Minnesota the complex and often strained relations between the US and Latin America including a look at immigration and trade policies, the reversal of the Cuban thaw, the Trump administration’s return to a more militant war on drugs, and the implications of recent developments with Venezuela and China.
What else can Central America and the United States do to curb migration north?
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On January 25, 2018 the Inter-American Dialogue’s Migration, Remittances & Development Program hosted “Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean in 2017,” an annual event presenting remittance flows to the region.
Pulling the plug on TPS will tear apart families and communities and bring more uncertainty to El Salvador.
While merit-based immigration systems do have some benefits, policy-dictated quotas do not consider gaps in labor market or fiscal benefits.
On March 16th the Dialogue welcomed the President of Costa Rica, Luis Guillermo Solís. With persistent problems of crime and violence, ongoing migration challenges, lackluster regional economic growth, continuing concerns about corruption in many countries, and uncertainties about the new US administration’s policies, Central America faces a complicated and unsettled situation. President Solís discussed these issues and several others during this open discussion at The Dialogue.
Movimento rumo ao protecionismo e restrição da imigração afetam todo o mundo, incluindo Brasil, Argentina e Chile.
A profile of Latin American and Caribbean migrants living in the Washington, DC metro area.
On February 24th, the Inter-American Dialogue held its annual event on Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean.
What is behind the spike in unaccompanied children crossing the border?
Latin America inequality gap, economic integration, and infrastructure and education systems were among the issues spotlighted at the XVII Annual CAF Conference.
Almost without warning, issues that have long been on the agenda between the US and Latin America are alive again as Barack Obama looks to his second term.
