Mixed Migration Review 2025
Migration in the context of geopolitical turmoil
Mixed Migration Review ’26
Coming in November 2026, this year’s Mixed Migration Review (MMR 2026) will look at how overlapping crises are reshaping human mobility worldwide.
Emerging Perspectives Essay Competition is live!
Each year, the Mixed Migration Centre runs an essay competition for young and emerging writers, researchers and thinkers from the Global South.
If you have a story or perspective on how overlapping global crises are shaping migration today, we invite you to enter the competition. Writers from and based in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East, aged 30 or younger, are encouraged to share their insights.
Participants are asked to submit an essay exploring how interconnected global pressures are shaping migration dynamics from the perspective of their country of origin.
Submit an abstract of no more than 200 words by 5 May 2026
MMR 2026: Migration in the age of polycrisis
In 2026, overlapping crises, including climate change, geopolitical fragmentation, conflict, and collapsing aid systems are compounding one another in ways that are reshaping human mobility worldwide. Migration is both a byproduct of this polycrisis and increasingly a political instrument, wielded in ways that have little to do with the needs of people on the move. State responses have hardened around containment, international protection frameworks are eroding, and what were once emergency measures are becoming permanent policy. The 2026 Mixed Migration Review examines how this age of polycrisis is transforming mixed migration — globally, regionally, and locally — and how dynamics may shift into the future.
About the mixed migration centre (mmc)
MMC is a knowledge centre engaged in data collection, research, analysis, and policy and programming on mixed migration.
Mixed Migration Review 2025
In 2025 the world faced profound political shifts, a strained humanitarian and multilateral system, widening inequality, and accelerating technological change and climate crises. Last year’s Mixed Migration Review (MMR) explored migration in the context of intensified geopolitical turmoil.
