News headlines for “Immigration”, page 232
False Perceptions Underpin Anti-Migrant Sentiments
- Inter Press Service
The rising tide of anti-migrant sentiment worldwide is caused primarily by the biased, polarised and negative debate on migration, according to a new study released here.
Workers Send More Money Home, Surpassing Development Aid
- Inter Press Service
Despite a global economic crisis, worsening employment prospects for immigrants and hardening views on immigration in the U.S. and Europe, migrant workers are sending more money home, according to a World Bank report on global remittances released Wednesday.
Andean Migrant Women Create Opportunities
- Inter Press Service
Women make up a majority of migrants from South America's Andean region and they send more money home to their families than men, according to a study carried out in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
TAJIKISTAN: President Taking a Press Beating in Dushanbe
- Inter Press Service
Following a diplomatic faux pas that enraged Russia, the knives seem to be out for Tajikistan's long-time president, Imomali Rahmon.
ISRAEL: Eritreans Flee From Dictatorship to Detention
- Inter Press Service
Standing across the street from the American embassy in Tel Aviv, more than 200 Eritrean asylum seekers chanted 'Yes to justice! Yes to humanity!', and demanded international intervention to stop torture camps in the Egyptian Sinai. Protests by African asylum seekers in Israel are growing, in the face of increasingly tough policies by the Israelis.
US: Battered Bodies, Broken Families: Remembering Immigrant Women
- Inter Press Service
Today marks the first of '16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence', a campaign launched in 1991 to insist that 'women's rights are human rights'.
Q&A: The Finer Points of Rising Sea Levels
- Inter Press Service
Long before the Pacific will rise to a level that will leave its estimated 30,000 islands submerged, most of them might be severely affected by frequent flooding and storms.
ASIA-PACIFIC: Refugees of Climate Change Rising Steadily
- Inter Press Service
Asian countries, home to about 60 percent of the world's population, will be hit hardest by changing weather patterns and a degrading environment, research indicates.
U.S.: 2010 Saw Record Number of International Students
- Inter Press Service
For the fifth consecutive year, the number of international students studying in the U.S. increased, hitting an all-time record high, according to a report released Monday by the Institute of International Education (IIE) at the start of International Education Week.
Indonesian Migrants Facing Death Get Legal Aid from Home
- Inter Press Service
With 221 Indonesian migrant workers facing death sentences in China, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, the government of Indonesia has approved a legal aid budget to assist these workers, who often do not have access to such assistance otherwise.
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