Migration Policy Institute (MPI) Internships 2027 – YOA

Deadline: October 15, 2026

Applicatons are open for the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) Internships 2027. The Demetrios G. Papademetriou Young Scholars Program, named in honor of MPI’s founding president, has two objectives: harnessing the precious contributions of interns for MPI’s work and coaching the subsequent technology of migration and communications leaders. Internships can be found each in individual and remotely, in addition to to these residing exterior the United States.

MPI is dedicated to recruiting and supporting interns who mirror the breadth of experiences, backgrounds, and views within the international locations the place it really works. As such, the Institute is dedicated to creating certain that interns and workers members of all backgrounds work in an inclusive setting with fairness and entry for all. 

Available Internships

Research Internships: Research Interns work inside one of many following program areas:

• U.S. Immigration: Tracking and evaluation of insurance policies regarding asylum and refugee pathways, border administration, immigration enforcement, authorized immigration (short-term and everlasting), unauthorized immigration, and employment outcomes of extremely educated immigrants; evaluation of immigration, demographic, and financial traits; growth of proposals for coverage reform.
• International Migration: Comparative evaluation of immigration and integration insurance policies within the areas of refugee resettlement and asylum, immigrant integration (together with labor market integration and social cohesion), labor migration, borders and mobility, migration and growth, and returns and reintegration.
• U.S. Immigrant Integration: Issues associated to early childhood schooling and care; Dual Language Learners and English Learners; Ok-12 immigrant schooling; grownup schooling, coaching, and workforce growth; state and native immigration/integration coverage and companies; and language entry coverage.
• Latin America and Caribbean Initiative: Assessing coverage responses to combined migration flows, with a give attention to northern Central America and Venezuela; evaluating migration administration programs in key host international locations, together with Mexico, Costa Rica, and Colombia; monitoring regional and worldwide growth insurance policies; and figuring out integration challenges and alternatives. Written proficiency and oral fluency in Spanish are required.
• Refugee and Forced Displacement Initiative: Research and evaluation of coverage and programmatic approaches that privilege refugee company, lived expertise, refugee livelihoods and self-reliance, host-nation integration, and the function of religion in world responses.

Within every of those substantive areas, analysis intern duties embody:

• Contributing to general MPI analysis efforts, together with by impartial quantitative and/or qualitative analysis and coverage evaluation
• Writing paper drafts and getting ready literature summaries
• Providing occasions assist
• Summarizing hearings and different related private and non-private occasions
• Light administrative duties.

Communications Internships: MPI gives a communications internship, offering important dissemination and different assist throughout the Institute and with the flexibility to expertise the breadth of its work throughout analysis areas.

Communications intern duties embody:

• Media monitoring
• Development of social media campaigns and visible property
• Assisting with occasions group and execution
• Assisting with promotion of the Migration Information Source journal
• Short-form writing and attainable multimedia modifying.

Benefits

• A $1,472 biweekly stipend is obtainable to full-time interns and a prorated stipend to part-time interns. Students additionally might prepare to acquire credit score for his or her work. MPI doesn’t cowl relocation bills. Internships may be distant or in individual.

Eligibility

• Applicants don’t needn’t be a U.S. citizen to apply; nevertheless, all candidates have to be U.S. work licensed earlier than the internship begins, except they reside and work from exterior the United States all through the internship cycle. MPI isn’t designated by the State Department to be an alternate customer sponsor and subsequently can not present the supporting paperwork to apply for H-1B, J-1, H-3, or F-1 visas.
• For all positions, candidates have to be at the very least a junior in faculty and possess wonderful oral and written communication abilities.
• Current college students, faculty graduates, graduate college students, and early-profession professionals are welcome to apply.
• Those with out faculty expertise who can reveal substantial related work expertise will even be thought-about.
• Foreign language abilities and proficiency in key Office and different software program applications are useful, as are sturdy quantitative abilities.
• Minority candidates and/or candidates from immigrant or refugee backgrounds are strongly inspired to apply.

Application

Interested candidates ought to fill out the web kind. Separately, candidates ought to ship the next supplies by October 15, 2026, to [email protected], together with within the topic line “First Name Last Name_Spring 2027”:

• CV/Resume
• Cover letter (most 2 single-spaced pages) describing your private or skilled curiosity in migration and/or one other public coverage challenge; specify which MPI program space(s) you want to be thought-about for and describe related analysis, educational, and/or skilled experiences.
• Writing pattern (most 5 single-spaced pages in English) demonstrating your capacity to put in writing clearly and analytically about migration, integration, refugee points, or different public coverage matters. Acceptable writing samples embody course papers, coverage memos, analysis stories, or revealed articles. If submitting an excerpt from longer works, embody the sections that reveal your writing or analytical abilities the most effective.
• Transcript (official or unofficial) from all schools/universities attended, exhibiting programs and grades.

No AI coverage: To pretty consider all candidates, they require application supplies that mirror your genuine talents and voice. Using AI instruments (ChatGPT, Claude, and many others.) to put in writing or considerably revise your application will lead to disqualification.

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