Global Migration and Human Mobility

Recent Grants

Migration

Number of Grants: 53

AcademyHealth (Washington, D.C.)
$552,000 to implement a Voluntary Code of Practice for the recruitment of foreign trained nurses to the United States (over two years). (2008)

AcademyHealth (Washington, D.C.)
$350,000 in support of research to assess the dynamics of the brain drain of healthcare professionals from poor countries and to develop standards for ethical recruitment (over two years). (2006)

African Diaspora Policy Centre (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
$325,000 in support of research on the institutional links between the African diaspora and governments in Nigeria and Ghana, and the contributions of these diaspora to development of their respective countries of origin (over two years). (2008)

Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) (New York, New York)
$400,000 in support of the Civil Society Days of the 3rd Global Forum on Migration and Development in 2009. (2009)

Aspen Institute Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 to help develop, promote, and monitor a Global Code of Practice for the international movement of health workers (over two years). (2008)

Aspen Institute Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative (Washington, D.C.)
$200,000 to develop a global code of practice for the international movement of health workers from the developing world to the U.S., UK, and other receiving nations. (2007)

Aspen Institute, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative (Washington, D.C.)
$200,000 in support of the Ethical Globalization Initiative to develop policies and bilateral agreements to address the movement of health workers from the developing world to the U.S., U.K., and other receiving nations (over two years). (2006)

Ayala Foundation USA (Redwood City, California)
$50,000 in support of civil society participation at the 2008 Global Forum for International Migration and Development. (2008)

Ayala Foundation USA (Redwood City, California)
$400,000 in support of civil society participation at the 2008 Global Forum for International Migration and Development. (2007)

Business for Social Responsibility (San Francisco, California)
$250,000 to enhance the role of the private sector in promoting responsible international labor migration (over two years). (2008)

Center for Ethnopolitical and Regional Studies, Russian Foreign Policy Association (Moscow, Russia)
$240,000 in support of the project on the social integration of migrants in Russia (over three years). (2006)

Center for Global Development (Washington, D.C.)
$1,500,000 to advance research and policy development on the impacts of migration on development and on helping poor countries attain the benefits of globalization (over three years). (2009)

Center for Global Development (Washington, D.C.)
$1,200,000 for general support to advance research and policy development on the impacts of migration on development and on helping poor countries attain the benefits of globalization (over three years). (2006)

Department of Foreign Affairs, Republic of the Philippines (Pasay City, Philippines)
$236,000 in support of the second Global Forum on Migration and Development. (2008)

El Colegio De La Frontera Norte, Centro de Estudios Fronterizos del Norte de Mexico (Tijuana, Mexico)
$120,000 in support of a survey of households in Oaxaca to examine the economic and social causes and consequences of migration. (2006)

Federal Ministry of Health (Abuja, Nigeria)
$242,000 to research the magnitude and impact of migration of health professionals (over two years). (2008)

Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs (Brussels, Belgium)
$50,000 in support of preparations for the Global Forum for International Migration and Development. (2007)

George Mason University, Center for Global Studies (Fairfax, Virginia)
$200,000 in support of research on global migration and transnational politics (over two years). (2007)

Georgetown University Institute for the Study of International Migration (Washington, D.C.)
$1,050,000 to advance work on the governance of international migration and on the relationship between migration and development (over three years). (2009)

Georgetown University Institute for the Study of International Migration (Washington, D.C.)
$40,000 in support of a workshop of migration policy experts to inform discussions at the second meeting of the Global Forum for Migration and Development. (2008)

Georgetown University, Institute for the Study of International Migration (Washington, D.C.)
$750,000 for general operating support that will advance work on the governance of international migration and on the relationship between migration and development (over three years). (2006)

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (Sebastopol, California)
$40,000 in support of general operations, and in support of their 2008 National Convening (over three years). (2008)

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (Sebastopol, California)
$20,000 in support of general operations (over two years). (2006)

Harvard University Center for International Development (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$396,000 to support research on the impacts of skilled diasporas in fostering international capital flows (over two years). (2008)

Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$195,000 in support of a study on the civil and political participation of Muslims in the Greater Boston area (over two years). (2007)

International Organization for Migration (Geneva, Switzerland)
$20,000 to assess the outcomes and impacts of the Regional Consultative Processes (over 18 months). (2008)

International Organization for Migration (Geneva, Switzerland)
$100,000 in support of the World Migration Report 2007. (2006)

King Baudouin Foundation (Brussels, Belgium)
$152,000 to support civil society participation at the Global Forum on Migration and Development. (2007)

Migration Dialogue (Davis, California)
$250,000 in support of research on circular migration and the impacts of free trade agreements on migration (over two years). (2007)

Migration Policy Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$1,600,000 in support of a program on migrants, migration and development (over three years). (2009)

Migration Policy Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$240,000 to support a series of educational seminars on migration for policymakers from Mexico and the United States. (2007)

Migration Policy Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$960,000 in support of research and translation efforts for policymakers on the impacts of migration on development and on international governance of migration (over three years). (2006)

National Alliance of Latin American & Caribbean Communities (Chicago, Illinois)
$235,000 to support research on the fiscal impacts of remittances in Mexico and El Salvador (over 18 months). (2008)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (Paris, France)
$900,000 in support of policy relevant research and policy dialogue to build effective partnerships on migration governance and development (over three years). (2007)

Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)
$750,000 to support research on migration and development and the Latin American Migration Project (over three years). (2008)

Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)
$120,000 in support of a longitudinal survey of Mexican migrants in the United States (over one year). (2007)

Red Internacional de Migracion y Desarrollo (Zacatecas, Mexico)
$200,000 for support of the Network and its collaborative research efforts on migration and development (over three years). (2006)

Regional Public Organization Migration Research Center (Moscow, Russia)
$210,000 in support of research and policy analysis on managing migration under conditions of demographic crisis in Russia (over three years). (2007)

Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy University at Albany-State University of New York (Albany, New York)
$200,000 to study global mobility regimes (over two years). (2008)

Sin Fronteras (Mexico City, Mexico)
$250,000 to educate government participants and develop policy recommendations regarding the regional governance of migration in Mexico and Central America (over two years). (2006)

Social Science Research Council (New York, New York)
$350,000 in support of an effort to assess the state of research on migration and development in order to strengthen future research and its links to policy (over 15 months). (2006)

United Nations Institute for Training and Research (Geneva, Switzerland)
$185,000 to support a series of workshops on migration and development and a course on international migration law (over two years). (2008)

United Nations Institute for Training and Research (New York, New York)
$172,000 in support of a workshop series and three-day training program on key migration issues (over two years). (2006)

United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (New York, New York)
$152,000 in support of the second Global Forum on Migration and Development. (2008)

University of California, Davis, Department of Economics (Davis, California)
$166,000 in support of research on the economic gains from migration in countries of destination in North America and Europe (over two years). (2007)

University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (Champaign, Illinois)
$55,000 in support of a conference on the role of human mobility in Russian history and contemporary Russia. (2008)

University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
$50,000 to research the impact of a variety of novel financial products on the productive use of remittances for development (over 22 months). (2008)

University of Michigan, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
$590,000 in support of research to test the impact of a variety of novel financial products on the productive use of remittances for development (over two years). (2007)

University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
$500,000 in support of research and policy dialogue on the global governance of migration (over 33 months). (2007)

University of Oxford, International Migration Institute (Oxford, United Kingdom)
$900,000 in support of a program of research and capacity building on African migration (over three years). (2007)

University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
$366,000 to support research and policy efforts on the impacts of diasporas in reforming institutions in their home countries (over 27 months). (2008)

Woodrow Wilson Center, Latin American Program (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 in support of the project Latin American Migrants: Civic and Political Participation in a Bi-National Context (over two years). (2006)

World Policy Institute, New School University (New York, New York)
$15,000 in support of a conference on immigration and security. (2006)