On June 26, 2025, the International Network for Immigration Research (INIR) convened a virtual panel discussion addressing the state of asylum and immigration control, featuring researchers representing member organizations of the network.
The primary challenge to the sovereignty of developed nations around the world is the mass use of asylum claims by illegal migrants as a means of avoiding deportation. Most claims are without merit, but the numbers overwhelm states’ ability to adjudicate them and to enforce negative rulings by sending people home.
To address this challenge, many nations have explored various versions of a “safe third country” strategy, either to require illegal migrants to wait abroad while their claims are adjudicated (like the Remain in Mexico program of the U.S. and the U.K.’s Rwanda plan), or to require them to seek asylum in another country altogether (like the U.S. Asylum Cooperative Agreements and the new proposal of the European Commission).
On June 26, 2025, the International Network for Immigration Research (INIR) convened a virtual panel discussion addressing these issues, hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies, featuring researchers representing member organizations of the network.
Panelists:
Nicolas Pouvreau-Monti, Immigration and Demography Observatory, Paris
Yonatan Jakubowicz, Israeli Immigration Policy Center, Jerusalem
Viktor Marsai, Migration Research Institute, Budapest
Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies, Washington
The panel discussion can be watched on YouTube, X and Facebook
