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You are welcome to reference or cite MPI materials and do not need permission to do so. Any type of reuse must be accompanied by a full citation. We recommend you include the following information in your citation:
The following are examples of how this might look:
Marc R. Rosenblum and Faye Hipsman, Border Metrics: How to Effectively Measure Border Security and Immigration Control (Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute, 2016), www.migrationpolicy.org/research/border-metrics-how-effectively-measure-border-security-and-immigration-control.
Caitlin Katsiaficas, “Asylum Seeker and Migrant Flows in the Mediterranean Adapt Rapidly to Changing Conditions,” Migration Information Source, June 22, 2016, www.migrationpolicy.org/article/asylum-seeker-and-migrant-flows-mediterranean-adapt-changing-conditions.
If MPI material is being reprinted (e.g., in a journal, newspaper, book, or coursepack), we also ask that the following credit line appear, depending on the source of the material requested: