Australia Austria Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Russian Federation Sweden United Kingdom United States New Research Challenges Notion of German "Brain Drain" For years, Germany has been concerned about losing its top minds to the US. Claudia Diehl of the German Federal Institute for Population Research and MPI's David Dixon investigate and come up with surprising answers. Reassessing the Impacts of Brain Drain on Developing Countries The assumption that brain drain is everywhere and always negative does not necessarily hold true and hides the need for a more nuanced methodology for assessing migration's impacts. Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah of the Institute for Public Policy Research explains. Interview with António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Former Prime Minister of Portugal António Guterres became the 10th UN High Commissioner for Refugees on June 15. Guterres talks with the Source about refugee protection, challenges to the asylum system, internally displaced persons, and the media's reporting on asylum and refugee issues.

This month the Source explores brain drain from two perspectives: high-skilled emigration from Germany and "brain strain" in developing countries. New UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres talks to the Source, plus we examine the Czech Republic's migration challenges, US statistics on refugees and asylees, and new US policy developments. Czech Republic After its independence in 1993, the Czech Republic became home to thousands of economic migrants. But as Dušan Drbohlav of Charles University reports, EU membership and tighter restrictions have not resolved the problems of illegal and transit migration. Czech Republic Resource Page Spotlight on Refugees and Asylees in the United States In 2003, the US approved 25,000 refugees for resettlement and handled more than 46,000 asylum cases. MPI's Jeanne Batalova takes a detailed look at refugee and asylum statistics in the United States. MPI's Julia Gelatt reports on Senators Cornyn and Kyl's comprehensive immigration reform bill, Secretary Chertoff's announcement on changes to the DHS, voting rights for Mexican citizens abroad, and more. Full Story From Traitors to Heroes: 100 Years of Mexican Migration Policies Jorge Durand examines Mexico's long history of and ambivalent attitude toward migration to the US.

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