News headlines for “Immigration”, page 259
Fight Over Arizona's Migrant Law Heads to the Courts
- Inter Press Service
The controversy over Arizona's new immigration law heated up further Monday when a powerful coalition of civil rights and immigration advocates asked a U.S. federal court to find the new law unconstitutional and issue an injunction against its taking effect.
Iraqi Christians Cling to Their Faith in Jordanian Exile
- Inter Press Service
As the 2003 United States-led invasion of Iraq began, the country’s Christians started streaming across the border into neighbouring Jordan. Today most of them continue to live here in abject poverty with no hope of ever returning to the land of their ancestors.
COLOMBIA: After Forced Displacement by Conflict, Relocation by Landslide
- Inter Press Service
More than 380 families -- some 2,000 people -- in this vast working-class district on the fringes of the Colombian capital that is home to hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the armed conflict are to be relocated after landslides caused by leaking water pipes.
Haiti Asks Expat Professionals to Return and Help
- Inter Press Service
Members of the Haitian diaspora responded with 'massive and spontaneous' aid immediately after the Jan. 12 earthquake, with thousand of professionals leaving jobs abroad to go and assist their compatriots, according to a government minister.
PHILIPPINES: Death Penalty Dashes Migrant Workers’ Hopes
- Inter Press Service
Every day some 4,500 Filipinos leave their homeland in search of the proverbial green pastures. But some of them end up facing death instead.
Changing Face of U.S. Cities a Harbinger of the Future
- Inter Press Service
The majority of youth in U.S. cities are no longer white, but there is also a growing disparity in the educational background and incomes of those cities' populations, says a new report from the Washington-based Brookings Institution.
RIGHTS-FINLAND: Tough Asylum Policy Opposed by Civil Disobedience
- Inter Press Service
Juha Suoranta had until recently been a professor of sociology, pursuing a quiet academic career in the University of Tampere, unconcerned with issues surrounding asylum for foreigners in trouble.
AUSTRALIA: For Some Refugees, Not Yet the Land of ‘Fair Go’
- Inter Press Service
After nearly 10 years of living in Australia, Sri Lanka-born Ramesh Fernandez is convinced nothing much has changed for refugees in the land of the ‘fair go’.
Will Arizona Give Immigration Reform a Shot in the Arm?
- Inter Press Service
Advocates for comprehensive immigration reform are working against time to transform a groundswell of popular support into concrete legislation that the U.S. Congress can pass this year.
RIGHTS: Gov’t Apathy to Indians on Death Row in UAE Assailed
- Inter Press Service
Despite the Indian government’s pledge to extend assistance, legal or otherwise, to the 17 Indian migrant workers currently on death row in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), human rights advocates have decried its alleged insensitivity to the prisoners’ plight.
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