List of Migration and Immigration articles
![Chinese migrants wearing rain ponchos warm themselves near a fire after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/china-migrants-GettyImages-2066555301.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Chinese Migrants Aren’t an Invading Army
Myths about “military-aged men” distract from a soft-power opportunity.
![People of all ages stand in a line against a tall fence at the U.S.-Mexico border. It's dawn or dusk, with only a weak haze of light at the edges of the cloudy sky overhead. A U.S. Border Patrol officer shines a flashlight toward the line, illuminating a few of them in its glare.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/1-GettyImages-1866757013.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
America is Stuck in a Century-Old Immigration Debate
Restricting immigration to appease domestic political grievances is likely to backfire—again.
![Trucks carrying Syrian refugees and their belongings prepare to leave Lebanon for Syria, in Arsal, Lebanon, on May 14.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Syrian-refugees-Lebanon-deportation-repatriation-GettyImages-2152335504.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Syrians in Lebanon Are Stuck in Limbo
Refugees have become an easy scapegoat for the country’s crisis—and face rising hostility from the government.
![Afghan refugees carry their belongings after being deported back from Iran at the Islam Qala Border between Afghanistan and Iran, in the western Herat province, on May 30.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Afghan-refugees-Iran-GettyImages-2154706359.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Afghan Asylum Seekers Face Hostility in Iran
As the country heads to a presidential run-off election, its largest immigrant population has featured prominently in the debate.
![A photo illustration shows the Qing-era Summer Palace in Beijing behind an image of Chinese President Xi Jinping walking.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/1-china-qing-empire-xi-jinping-illustration.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Revisiting Chinese Empire
A new book explores parallel lives spent on its periphery.
![U.S. President Joe Biden (right) and former U.S. President Donald Trump participate in the first presidential debate of the 2024 election at CNN’s studios in Atlanta, Georgia.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/trump-biden-presidential-debate-june-2024-GettyImages-2158941093.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Key Foreign-Policy Moments From the Trump-Biden Debate
The two candidates clashed over Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war, immigration, and America’s global image.
![Sudanese refugees and South Sudanese returnees who have fled from the war in Sudan arrive at a transit camp in Renk on Feb. 14.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2016309945.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
How to Solve the World’s Refugee Crisis
UNHCR’s Filippo Grandi on Sudan, Gaza, Ukraine, and more.
![An illustration shows Syrian-born cook Chef Omar holding a shawarma in front of a kitchen counter. Behind him are figures lining up for food at left and refugees on the move at right The building-covered skyline of Istanbul (left) and the rubble-filled skyline of Aleppo (right) are seen farther in the background.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/chef-omar-syria-turkey-assad-diaspora-maria-contreras-illustration.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Influencer Chef Dividing Syria’s Diaspora
Chef Omar has popularized Damascene cuisine online and in his Istanbul restaurant. But is he linked to the Assad regime?
![Arms reach up to sacks of aid as they are unloaded by people atop them on a truck above.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Chad-Sudan-refugee-aid-Ed-ram-photo-24.05.17-CHD-FP-AID-EXP-9.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The World’s Refugee Relief Is Utterly Broken
Millions of Sudanese are fleeing a warzone—and exposing the world’s bankrupt response.
![A Palestinian woman and her son look out on the street ahead of a funeral procession of Palestinian men killed in the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem in the West Bank.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Gaza-refugees-GettyImages-2148018919.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Egypt Is Obliged to Let Gaza Refugees In
Cairo’s decision to seal the border has exacerbated a humanitarian disaster. It’s also illegal.
![A ripped American flag rests abandoned along a road during a protest in response to the Republican National Convention being held in Charlotte, North Carolina.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/1-us-democracy-future-GettyImages-1228191731.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Democracy Has Run Out of Future
The underlying reason for the West’s democratic crisis may be a lost sense of open-ended time.
![Demonstrators wave Sudanese national flags and flags representing the anti-coup youth group Angry Without Borders during a procession marking the fourth anniversary of the Sudanese revolution, in Khartoum, Sudan.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1-Sudan-refugees-Egypt-FP_EYokes_Egypt_006.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
For Sudanese Refugees, Egypt Is Barely a Refuge
As the international community turns to other crises, people fleeing Sudan’s war face dire economic conditions.
![Party members and supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany party in the state of Thuringia attend a political gathering in Pfiffelbach, Germany, on Feb. 14.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-2003718620.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Germany’s Anti-Migrant Party Wants More Migrant Voters
Why the Alternative for Germany is increasingly targeting immigrants—as potential supporters.
![Field level inside a soccer stadium, four players running towards camera smile and hug each other to celebrate a goal. A frowning opposition goalkeeper is a bit behind them on the right of the composition. The fans in the stadium stands are blurred in the background.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/morocco-afcon-soccerGettyImages-1245417331.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The African Cup of Migrations
Aspiring soccer players used to leave the continent to pursue their dreams in Europe. Now they are coming home.
![A border wall constructed of shipping containers and topped with concertina wire stands along the U.S.-Mexico border.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/united-states-mexico-border-GettyImages-1245772052.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Mexico Is America’s Answer to China’s Belt and Road
Growing economic integration with Latin America could help the United States avoid the fate of an aging China.