Global Issues
News headlines for “Immigration”, page 215
U.S. Immigration System’s Cost, Reach “Unprecedented”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 08 (IPS) - The United States government is spending more on immigration enforcement each year than it is on all other federal law-enforcement agencies combined, according to the first comprehensive look at how the country's sprawling immigration complex has grown over the past decade.
The Mindlessness of War in Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Dic 30 (IPS) - One night in 1979, bombs dropped from the sky, killing 16 members of Ismail's family. "The war took some people to Europe and America, but it destroyed my family," Ismail, who is universally addressed as "uncle", says.
Iceland Tackles ‘Invisible’ Trafficking
- Inter Press Service
REYKJAVIK, Dic 27 (IPS) - For 18 months, a Chinese immigrant named Xing Haiou slept on a massage table in a windowless room in Reykjavik after completing his 12-hour workday.
Funding Shortage Thwarts Reconstruction Efforts
- Inter Press Service
MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka, Dic 23 (IPS) - The landscape in northern Sri Lanka's former war zone can change abruptly from the ordinary to the surreal.
First Strike in Quarter Century Exposes Treatment of Migrant Labour in Singapore
- Inter Press Service
SINGAPORE, Dic 20 (IPS) - The first workers strike in 26 years in this affluent Southeast Asian city-state has triggered some soul-searching about the treatment of migrant labour and the low wages they are paid.
Drug-Resistant Malaria Pushes Rural Thailand to Shoulder Global Role
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Dic 20 (IPS) - As Thailand braces itself to combat drug-resistant malaria, a spread of small, nondescript buildings scattered close to corn and rice fields along its hilly, western border are being cast into a bigger, international role.
Q&A: In "Black and Cuba", A New Approach to Discussing Race
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 18 (IPS) - Robin J. Hayes has always been one to break boundaries. Most recently, she is doing so with her latest documentary film, "Black and Cuba", which explores how African-Americans and Afro-Cubans can learn from each other about community-building and public debates on racism in their countries.
Detained at the Eastern Border – Part 2
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Dic 18 (IPS) - Twenty-two years ago today, on Dec. 18, 1990, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
Remittances Soothe the Scourge of Militancy
- Inter Press Service
PESHWAR, Pakistan, Dic 16 (IPS) - Fifty-nine-year-old Sherdil Shah, a resident of South Waziristan – a hotbed of militancy in northern Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) – used to run a modest grain shop that fetched enough money to keep his family of 10 well-fed and looked after.
Seven Years After Katrina, Preparing for the Next Disaster
- Inter Press Service
ATLANTA, Georgia, Dic 15 (IPS) - Many residents are still rebuilding their lives seven years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region of the United States. Those who are able are looking ahead and organising so that they will be better prepared for future natural disasters.
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