Global Issues
News headlines for “Immigration”, page 202
U.S. Govt Shutdown Dashes Immigrant Dreams
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 12 (IPS) - Early on the morning of Oct. 1, Tapia* left her home in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, took the subway into Manhattan and headed to the federal courthouse on Varick Street.
Zimbabweans Head Out for a Better Life
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Oct 11 (IPS) - Admire Gumbo, 26, from Harare's Mabvuku high density-suburb, is loathe to leave Zimbabwe to return to Botswana. However, he feels he has no choice but to return to the neighbouring country where he worked for three years as a manual labourer.
The Coming Plague
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 10 (IPS) - A climate plague affecting every living thing will likely start in 2020 in southern Indonesia, scientists warned Wednesday in the journal Nature. A few years later the plague will have spread throughout the world's tropical regions.
Syrians Struggle with a Life of Sorts
- Inter Press Service
IDLIB/ALEPPO Provinces, Syria, Oct 09 (IPS) - Free Syrian Army fighters stand guard over the state cable company premises to avoid looting in Khan Al-Assal, a district 14 kilometres west of Aleppo. Much of the rest of the place seems a nightmarish ghost town.
Some Rice, Served With Rainwater
- Inter Press Service
KOH KONG PROVINCE, Cambodia, Oct 05 (IPS) - The quiet Cambodian village of Chouk, set in the beautiful forests of the Cardamom Mountains near the Thai border, seems peaceful. But things are difficult in this largely empty village of simple wooden houses, populated mainly by children and the elderly.
Hope and Pessimism as Israelis and Palestinians Resume Talks
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 04 (IPS) - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators returned to the negotiating table on Thursday, ready to put claims by the United States that it will engage more forcefully in the negotiating process to the test.
The Dark Side of International Migration
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 02 (IPS) - The number of international migrants continues its inexorable climb even as reports of slave-like conditions continue to proliferate.
BOOKS: Americana, a Filipino Story
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Sep 30 (IPS) - One of the fastest-growing Asian immigrant groups in the United States, Filipinos are perceived as the most likely to assimilate with ease. That is, of course, if you're looking from the outside in.
From Tanzania to Brazil in the Hold of a Ship
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 24 (IPS) - Ornela Mbenga Sebo, a young Congolese woman, escaped in 2011 from a rebel camp in Tanzania where she was being held as a slave and stowed away in the garbage bay of a merchant ship, with no idea where it was headed.
Boats of Hope Head for Australian Rocks
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Sep 22 (IPS) - It was a decision based on simple sums. Ananda, 28, from Weligama in the southern Sri Lankan district Matara decided to risk it all boarding a boat to Australia last year because he never had enough money.
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