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Global estimates place the number of people in modern slavery broadly between about 46 million and 50 million, depending on the dataset and definitions used — for example, the ILO, IOM and Walk Free “...
Mexico’s official actions in 2024 show a sharp rise in migrant , but the available reports conflate different measures—“events,” detentions, interceptions, and deportations—so a single definitive depo...
The human cost of Sudan’s war remains enormous and shrouded in uncertainty: independent analyses and UN agencies place current displacement at roughly 11–15 million people, while estimates of deaths —...
The Global Slavery Index (Walk Free) and related reporting identify several conflict‑affected and fragile states as having the highest prevalence of modern slavery per capita — for example South Sudan...
The U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) is run overseas by the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) with DHS/USCIS conducting refugee interviews and HHS/Office of...
Available sources do not provide a direct, comparable statistic for welfare participation rates among Somali, Ethiopian, and Nigerian immigrants in a single country or dataset; reporting instead gives...
Post‑communist Eastern Europe experienced in the decades after 1989, with documented scandals and systemic flows of children for sexual exploitation, forced labor, and related abuses across countries ...
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) provides a mix of pre-departure, transportation, reception, and individualized reintegration assistance to voluntary returnees in 2025, prioritizing ...
Undocumented and immigrant populations contribute to the U.S. through GDP, labor supply in key sectors, and demographic support for entitlement systems, while large‑scale deportation or exclusion scen...
Global migration has increased markedly in recent decades and reached new peaks in the early 2020s; authoritative datasets report and a record number of forcibly displaced people in the mid‑2020s, sup...
Receiving countries approach reintegration of deportees through a patchwork of reception services, targeted reintegration programs, and partnerships with international agencies, but coverage, quality ...
In 2025, Somali refugee resettlement was managed through the traditional U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) architecture—led overseas by the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and...
Geneva is already feeling a concrete shock from the Trump administration’s distrust-driven pullback: abrupt freezes and withdrawals of US funding and participation are forcing layoffs, programme pause...
The American Community Survey (ACS) is the backbone of U.S. research on immigrant populations but it is a blunt instrument for small, dispersed groups: useful for broad counts and socioeconomic snapsh...
The Migrant Operations Center (MOC / GMOC) at Guantánamo Bay operates at the intersection of executive authority, Defense and Homeland Security agencies, and longstanding legal controversies about off...
Immigrant workers face a distinct profile of occupational harms: higher rates of fatal and non‑fatal injuries, significant musculoskeletal and chronic exposures (heat, pesticides, chemicals), and laye...
The Biden administration created an interagency Family Reunification Task Force in February 2021 to locate and reunify children separated under the Trump-era “zero tolerance” policy and opened web por...
A small number of peer‑reviewed and non‑mainstream studies have directly compared health outcomes in vaccinated and unvaccinated children; the most prominent are a U.S. pilot/home‑school survey and se...
Resettlement agencies and public services play decisive but constrained roles in determining where Somali refugees are placed: international and national agencies identify and prioritize cases, liaise...
Federal programs that directly affect Somali immigrants’ work eligibility include Temporary Protected Status for Somalia, which permits applicants to request Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) ...