My colleague Katrina Munir-Asen and I were tasked by the T20 (think tank group of the G20 countries) to put together a policy brief for this year’s G20 presidency on the future of high-skill migration. Central to our argument is that countries should focus on attracting people, especially in highly technical and innovative industries and education sectors. This goes against the current grain of raising barriers to entry, but as the world become inexorably more interlinked managing high-skill migration effectively could highlight ways that governments can decently and humanely manage bigger challenges like refugee integration.