The International Migrant Crisis and How the World Can Respond

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PBS World Channel National Broadcast:  Virginia, January 31, 2016/Nationally, February 3 , 2016

Kathleen Newland is a Senior Fellow and Co-Founder of the Migration Policy Institute where she focuses on the relationship between migration and development, the governance of international migration, and refugee protection. Prior to this appointment, Newland worked for the Carnegie Endowment for international Peace, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, World Bank, and the office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

David Leblang, a political economis,  is a Chair of the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia and J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at the Miller Center. Leblang has served as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, the Directorate of Finance and Economics of the European Commission, and the Department of Defense. He is co-author of Democratic Politics and Financial Markets: Pricing Politics (2006) and is currently working on two projects – the first focuses on how sending countries "harness" the human and material resources of their diasporas while the second is a study of the politics and policies that constrain the mobility of labor across states and nations.