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📢 The Mixed Migration Review (MMR) 2026 is out!
This year's theme looks at migration in the age of polycrisis: how climate pressures, inequality, geopolitical tensions and shrinking aid systems shape mixed migration dynamics.
🔗 Discover the #MMR2026: https://t.co/Rq1UmMG7EI

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As we continue to address the issues, we should centre on the humanity and dignity of people. -@GuerlineMJozef #MMR2026

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Current policies are far more expensive and ineffective. Research and humanitarian organisations have shown for decades that they fail, yet they continue to be used to demonstrate border control. It is political virtue signalling. -@AhlamChemlali #MMR2026

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Deterrence is framed as a humanitarian approach, to save migrants’ lives and stop smuggling. But research and evidence show that these policies are doing the opposite: putting people in greater danger and boosting smuggling. -@AhlamChemlali #MMR2026

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Governments are paying more to say no to refugees than it would cost to say yes.- Mustafa Alio #MMR2026

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The root cause of what is causing people to flee is never addressed. -Guerline M. Jozef #MMR2026

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The US is paying third countries to accept deportees, but how that money is spent needs scrutiny. It is not just about aid cuts but how the money is being used elsewhere. It is not that there is no money for support; the government has chosen to divert it.- @GuerlineMJozef #MMR2026

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In the US, people from countries such as El Salvador have had Temporary Protected Status for 25 years. They have built their lives there, but overnight, that protection can be taken away. People are left unable to leave and unable to stay. -@GuerlineMJozef #MMR2026

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Recently in Chad, I saw a woman who had just crossed the border from Darfur. She was wounded, but partners were unable to refer her to medical services. This is the impact of aid cuts. The response to GBV we may have taken for granted is no longer there.- @mamadou_dbalde #MMR2026

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I have seen first-hand the impact of aid cuts every time I visit refugee settlements and communities. It is not only the scale of the cuts, but also their brutality and the speed at which they happened. Food cuts affect the protection of women and children. -@mamadou_dbalde

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People stay in a place but they cannot plan a future. We talk about self-reliance and inclusion in aid systems, but there is no clear timeline for people to plan their future. Aid cuts make this limbo worse, and people lose even more hope. -Mustafa Alio @RefugeesSeat #MMR2026

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Another dilemma of aid cut is that aid is used as pressure for migration policy, in the end people absorve the cuts, the cuts land on people- Mustafa Alio #MMR2026

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In North Africa, people on the move are stuck for very long periods. Aid cuts and conditions are increasingly tangled with border control and migration policies. People are punished first and foremost, as funding shifts from solidarity to conditionality. @AhlamChemlali #MMR2026

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For people on the move, polycrisis is very real and far from theoretical. It shapes daily realities, decisions, survival strategies and futures.

-Jennifer Vallentine, #MMR2026 managing editor

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In the face of hardening borders and shrinking support systems, we must come together in solidarity to pursue rights-based responses that uphold protection, dignity, and opportunity for people on the move.
- Jennifer Vallentine, #MMR2026 managing editor

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The Mixed Migration Review seeks to contribute: data, research, critical analysis and, importantly, the experiences and perspectives of people on the move themselves. - Jennifer Vallentine, #MMR2026 managing editor

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Because as the polycrisis reshapes migration dynamics, we must also rethink how we respond — with better evidence, stronger protection, anticipatory action and greater humanity. -Eva Grambye @DRC_ngo #MMR2026