The Trump administration just made it $100,000 harder to bring talent into the United States. From now on, employers must pay a one-time $100,000 surcharge when they file an H-1B petition—the visa program companies use to hire skilled foreign workers.

Brown's MSDA program finds a new home!

The study of fiscal policies in 48 states going back to 1990 left its lead author feeling “surprised and depressed.”

With the right policies in place, Venezuelan migrants could help the Noboa administration revitalize the economy, two experts write.

Sociologist Susan Short gave a keynote address at the International Forum on Beijing +30: Gender Equality in Great Demographic Shifts. This UN event commemorated the thirtieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

For many displaced by Hurricane Katrina, distance did not diminish their bond with the city they left behind, even as they built new lives.

A New Orleans native and hurricane survivor shares why he stayed in Georgia.

Twenty years after hurricane Katrina, this big question remains. What happened to the million people who fled? Most never returned. And their journey reshaped the south.

The United States is facing a dual crisis in declining educational outcomes and escalating climate impacts.

CIUG project shows Chennai as a city of contrasts, outwardly modern, yet still struggling with inequities in water and sanitation.

When thousands of New Orleans homes flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the city lost more than half its population overnight.

Chennai residents have high contact rates with councillors but the city ranks low in basic service delivery while a large number of people rely on intermediaries for service delivery, says a study

Cultural Anthropologist Jessaca Leinaweaver examines the various ways that children receive, are denied, and provide care.

The American Sociological Association announced its Inaugural Policy Outreach Fellows this week, and Emily Rauscher was named one of the 10 sociologists who will meet over the next year with the aim of honing skills in communicating with the media and translating complex scientific information from sociological research into plain language for policymakers and the public.

MDPI is pleased to announce that Dr. Kevin M. Mwenda has been appointed Associate Editor of Populations.

John Friedman spoke to the UK House of Lords’ Social Mobility Policy Committee recently about his research on social and economic mobility.

Despite declining fertility rates -- now below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman in more than half of all countries -- the desire for parenthood remains strong.

Last month 31 men at Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, positioned their bodies in the shape of the letters “SOS,” a cry for help, as journalists flew overhead. Much has been written about the state of deportations under the Trump administration and the flouting of the Supreme Court’s orders, as well as the court’s temporary blocking of removals of Venezuelan migrants to a notorious prison complex in El Salvador. However, less has been said about how human rights violations are pervasive at detention centers all over the United States, including Bluebonnet.

Celebrating the Class of 2025

Born out of the university's Center for Children's Environmental Health, the new center is more than just a re-branding , its director explains.

Brown University history professor Mack Scott grew up Indigenous in Rhode Island. He moved to the Narragansett reservation in Charlestown in middle school, where he was steeped in his culture. But prior to that he lived in Providence, where he said this identity was less present in his own life.

Going outside and getting fresh air sure feels good, but does it make a measurable impact on our health?

For years, people concerned about falling birth rates have warned of the economic consequences of population decline. When a country falls below replacement-level fertility, its aging population will surpass the new, younger generation, shrinking the labor force and straining the national economy with increased costs of elder care, retirement benefits and medical services.

From 1922 to 1923, over 1.2 million Greek Orthodox migrated from Anatolia to Greece. This column examines whether the human capital decisions of refugees differ from natives, and how they continue to impact the Greek economy today.