From rising levels of humanitarian migration around the globe to President Obama’s action ordering deportation relief for millions of unauthorized immigrants in the United States and migration controls to halt the spread of Ebola from West Africa, 2014 was punctuated by a range of migration crises, important policy changes, and developments. In this edition of the Migration Information Source’s annual Top 10 migration issues of the year, MPI experts analyze these and other trends that occurred throughout 2014.

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