Global Issues
News headlines for “Immigration”, page 219
Q&A: Disaster Resilience Starts with Grassroots Women
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 13 (IPS) - Women and girls can be powerful agents of change, but they are disproportionately affected by disasters because of social roles, discrimination and poverty.
Market Gardening, a Ladder to Progress for Bolivians in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 09 (IPS) - At the age of 53, Alberto Ramírez has come a long way since he came from Bolivia to Argentina every year during the harvest season since he was 12 years old, to work alongside his father. He now has a prosperous vegetable and fruit wholesale business in this city on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
A Migration Story Comes Full Circle
- Inter Press Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Oct 08 (IPS) - For the first time in over four decades, the number of people migrating out of the southern Indian state of Kerala, home to 33.3 million people, is on the decline.
UZBEKISTAN-TAJIKISTAN: Souring Political Relations Damaging Human Ties
- Inter Press Service
DUSHANBE, Oct 04 (IPS) - This summer, a 32-year-old musician with Uzbek citizenship was visiting her mother in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. For the last decade, the musician has lived in the Tajik capital Dushanbe with her husband, an ethnic Uzbek, and their 10-year-old daughter.
Mexico, the End of the 'American Dream' for Child Migrants
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Oct 01 (IPS) - For many undocumented child migrants from Central America, Mexico is the end of the road in their endeavour to reach the United States, driven by economic reasons, gang violence and domestic violence.
Q&A: Migration Now a Key Part of the Global Economy
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 (IPS) - As international migration continues to grow in scope, complexity and impact, effectively managing it has steadily moved up on the agenda of the international community.
Changing Demographics Likely to Tip Scales for Obama Re-election
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 25 (IPS) - With just six weeks left before the U.S. presidential polls, analysts on Tuesday suggested that recent demographic changes in the United States, particularly through immigration, have made it more difficult than ever for a Republican candidate to vie for president.
For Palestinian Workers, the Enemy Is the Hope
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank, Sep 25 (IPS) - Hassan Hader’s application for a permit to work in Israel has been rejected four times. Now waiting to hear back from the Israeli authorities on his latest attempt, the 52-year-old father of five said he has no choice but to keep applying.
GEORGIA: Anti-Turkish Sentiments Grow as Election Date Nears
- Inter Press Service
TBILISI, Sep 24 (IPS) - Rooted in longstanding historical, religious and economic differences, Georgian animosity toward neighbouring Turkey, Georgia’s fifth-largest investor, appears to be growing in the Black Sea region of Achara.
Growing Public Discontent with Turkish Syria Policy
- Inter Press Service
ANKARA, Sep 21 (IPS) - Public approval of the Turkish government’s foreign policy has reached its lowest point - a mere 18 percent - in the past decade, according to a poll released here this week that showed only 18 percent of respondents said they favoured Ankara’s handling of the escalating sectarian violence in neighbouring Syria.
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