News headlines for “Immigration”, page 245
ARGENTINA: Rural Slavery at Time of Record Earnings
- Inter Press Service
Crowded into precarious mud-floored dorms or sheet-metal trailers or forced to live in tents of plastic sheeting, with neither piped water nor electricity, after working 14-hour days: these are the harsh conditions faced by hundreds of thousands of rural workers in Argentina despite bumper crops and record earnings for agribusiness.
LIBYA: Satellite Technology to Help the Displaced
- Inter Press Service
Analysis based on satellite images and maps is helping to identify the flows of people fleeing the political violence in Libya to neighbouring countries.
ITALY: Migrants Settle Into Permanent Struggle
- Inter Press Service
The momentous political events in North Africa have been accompanied by increasingly apocalyptic warnings from the Italian government of a mass influx of unwanted immigration from Tunisia and Libya.
MAGHREB: For Migrants, Crisis Worsens Economic Situation At Home
- Inter Press Service
The mass exodus of immigrant workers from Libya is aggravating the social and economic situation in the migrants’ home nations - from Sudan and Chad in sub-Saharan Africa, to Bangladesh in Asia - according to labour and economic experts.
LIBYA: Aid Groups Struggle with Rising Tide of Refugees
- Inter Press Service
The international community is ramping up efforts to alleviate the growing humanitarian crisis in Libya, with has affected over 200,000 people since the Muammar Gaddafi regime first began a violent crackdown on opposition forces some three weeks ago.
Former U.S. Soldier Told He Has No Country
- Inter Press Service
Forty-four-year-old Ramdeo Chankar Singh is at his wits' end.
LIBYA: Thousands of Foreign Labourers Trapped in Turmoil
- Inter Press Service
As violent unrest continues unabated in Libya, with the potential to descend into what U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called a 'protracted civil war' in statements to lawmakers here this week, international rights groups are raising the alarm over the resulting humanitarian crisis and the particularly desperate plight of stranded immigrant labourers.
BAHRAIN: Migrants Stuck With Added Problems
- Inter Press Service
Thousands of foreign labourers here are squeezed into houses the government says are uninhabitable, but they are unlikely to get any relief soon, with the non- stop protests in the capital hurting many businesses.
Israel Grows Ever-Harsher in Treatment of Migrants
- Inter Press Service
A new report from the Global Detention Project (GDP) on Israel's immigration detention policies reveals the tough reality behind the feel-good story offered in the Academy Award-winning 'Strangers No More', an inspirational documentary about students from migrant families who attend the Bialik-Rogozin school in Tel Aviv.
Arab Uprising Bypasses Domestic Slaves
- Inter Press Service
The uprisings sweeping the Arab world have been provoked by long injustice, low income, police brutality, and lack of social security. While the world looks at this, the suffering of up to three million maids across the Arab world remains wrapped in silence.
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