Migration takes various forms, ranging from unskilled and skilled labor migration, regular and irregular migration, temporary and permanent migration, refugees and asylum-seekers, internally displaced persons, to human trafficking and people smuggling. The aspects of migration one can study also range widely, from migrants' human rights and identities to national and human security implications, from economic and social impacts on the country of origin and the destination country to integration of migrants in the host society, from political to environmental drivers of migration to resource impacts in the destination country. In many countries internal migration may be as important as or more important than international migration. Moreover, effective migration policy cannot be sustained in isolation from other national policies, including those concerning economic development, demographic and population changes, national security, and foreign policy. In this seminar, the students will be introduced to (1) purpose and methods of comparative policy analysis; (2) major immigration challenges and policies addressing them, with illustrative examples from East Asia, Europe, and the Western Hemisphere. Each student will develop a comparative analysis of migration policies of two countries, located in two different regions, that share a similar migration policy challenge. The analysis will include a description of the migration policy challenge in the countries and their policies toward that problem, and an explanation of similarities and differences between the policies as well as an assessment of the policies’ effectiveness. The two-country comparison will be based on a theoretically informed comparative framework.