Immigration

Modern migration challenges: U.S. immigration policy fails to balance national security and human rights

Anti-immigrant rhetoric from the White House fails to recognize the country’s legal obligation to asylum seekers and instead seeks to criminalize migrants. The ad hoc arrangement of immigration policy in the United States is wrought with inconsistencies and ill-equipped to deal with the modern realities of human displacement, presenting a serious threat to the country’s longstanding humanitarian tradition.

Rethinking governance for children and families: Conversation with Dr. Maria Cancian

In this first interview in a series of podcasts about Rethinking Governance, we speak to the incoming Dean of the McCourt School Dr. Maria Cancian. Interview Editor Lucy Schmitz and Senior Interview Editor Erich Denk discuss innovative thinking on family policy, Dr. Cancian’s work at the Department of Health and Human Services, and child separation at the […]