News headlines for “Immigration”, page 241
Dam Project in Turkey Breeds Controversy
- Inter Press Service
The tranquillity and mystery of this town on the banks of Tigris River will not last long. The millennia-old town will be nearly totally destroyed once the nearby Ilisu dam, built for energy and irrigation, is complete.
U.S.: Alabama's Immigration Bill 'Turns Back Clock' on Civil Liberties
- Inter Press Service
On Dec. 1, 1955, at the height of racial segregation in the United States, a little-known middle-aged seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery City bus in the southern state of Alabama.
As Britain Sees a Needy Child
- Inter Press Service
The British Home Office has ruled that a severely disabled five-year-old girl should be returned to Algeria. The ruling demonstrates just how tough some European governments are getting on immigration.
Millions May Soon Be Fleeing the Floodwaters
- Inter Press Service
Mass migration will inevitably be part of human adaptation to climate change, experts agree, since parts of the world will become uninhabitable in the coming decades.
Asylum-Seekers Find Refuge in a Street Paper
- Inter Press Service
The reasons why people become street paper vendors are many and diverse. Some are homeless; others suffer mental or physical health problems, struggle with addiction or face unemployment. And some people do it because the magazines offer them the refuge they so desperately need.
PAKISTAN: Tribes Plead for End to Army Offensives
- Inter Press Service
Fear and anxiety have spread among residents of North Waziristan in northwest Pakistan after U.S. Admiral Mike Mullen, outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced that the Pakistani government would launch a major offensive in the area.
Urban Transformation for Interethnic Cities
- Inter Press Service
Urban centres, marked by globalisation, migration and the intermingling of culturally and ethnically diverse communities were among the major topics of the International Conference on the Inter-ethnic City held in Rome last week on the eve of the celebrations of Italy’s national day.
OP-ED: Cutting the Fog: Multiculturalism, Religion and the Common Good
- Inter Press Service
The death of 'multiculturalism' has been proclaimed repeatedly recently, the idea pronounced with a big 'M' as if we were talking of something tangible around which there is consensus.
Prison Lobbyists Help Spread Anti-Immigrant Laws to U.S. South
- Inter Press Service
Earlier this month, Georgia became the third state to enact some of the most anti-immigrant legislation in recent U.S. history, when Governor Nathan Deal, a Republican, signed the bill, HB 87.
Syrians Running Out of Refuge in Lebanon
- Inter Press Service
Syrians from the border town Tell Khalakh have been fleeing a wave of violence over recent weeks to cross into neighboring Lebanon. But those seeking refuge now face an uncertain fate.
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