Migration Policy Institute

When people think about climate migration, they might imagine mass movements across international borders. The reality is different: Most people stay within their own countries, and many move to large cities.

Our new article examines what happens to some of the millions of people displaced by rising environmental threats. Nasrat Sayed provides insight from people displaced by severe flooding to informal settlements in Karachi, Pakistan’s booming megacity, to explain why they fled their homes and what they faced upon arrival.

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Temporary Protected Status was created by Congress in 1990 as a humanitarian safeguard for already present immigrants whose home countries were too dangerous or unstable for them to return. Over the last 36 years, TPS has become an increasingly enduring feature of the U.S. immigration system.

Now, the Trump administration is seeking to all but eliminate it. Nearly 1.3 million people held TPS as of March 2025. That number is on course to reach zero by November unless the courts or the administration itself act.

Muzaffar Chishti and Ariel G. Ruiz Soto trace the origins of TPS, how it grew and what’s at stake in the debate over its future.

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Migration patterns from and through Central America are changing in fundamental ways.

Once primarily a region of emigration and northward transit, the region is increasingly becoming a place of prolonged wait, forced return, and blocked movement. Migrants arrive, stay, and circulate in multiple directions, often without clear pathways forward.

In the new article in our Migration Information Source magazine, Pía Riggirozzi and Natalia Cintra examine how two converging forces — tightening immigration policies and sharp cuts to global humanitarian aid — are reshaping mobility across Central America. The result is not simply fewer migrants moving north, but a reconfiguration of who moves, where they end up, and what support is available to them.

How Immigration Crackdowns and Aid Cuts Are Reshaping Migration Across Central America Migration patterns from and through Central America are changing in fundamental ways amid rising immigration enforcement and a reduction in global humanitarian aid. These twin developments are putting new pressures on governments in the region and reshaping migrant experiences, as this article explo...