May 28, 2024, 11:00-12:00 CST
Andrew Selee, PhD, is the president of the Migration Policy Institute and author of Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together (New York: PublicAffairs, 2018). He was previously the executive vice president of the Wilson Center and the founding director of its Mexico Institute. He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and has taught at Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University.
Speaker presentation
Increasing Opportunities to Address Migration in North America
Andrew Selee and Carlos Heredia—leading migration experts from the United States and Mexico—highlight important changes in the migration dynamics of North America. These shifts have led to greater identities of interest among Canada, Mexico, and the United States in some respects, which opens opportunities for greater cooperation for humanitarian and enforcement reasons in border management and to facilitate productivity-enhancing labor mobility. While perhaps incipient, the growing convergence goes beyond the recent North American Leaders Summits and the Los Angeles Declaration. North America has experienced an increasing structural convergence in migration with significant policy divergence. The key question for the future is whether the structural convergence could, at some point, lead to greater policy convergence and even coherence among the three countries, especially as they try to manage receiving and integrating large immigrant populations and creating some order in migration flows across the Americas, which affect all three.