News headlines for “Immigration”, page 267
MALI: Mobilising in Defence of Migrants
- Inter Press Service
The number of migrants being deported and returned to Mali is increasing. Civil society has mobilised to support the returnees.
RIGHTS: Thailand Deports Hmong Asylum Seekers to Laos
- Inter Press Service
In a move that places greater weight on growing regional solidarity over historical ties with a western superpower, Thailand ordered its military to forcibly return over 4,000 men, women and children from the Hmong ethnic community to Laos, the country they had fled in search of political asylum.
Q&A: Law and Order May Not Improve in 2010
- Inter Press Service
For women in Pakistan’s North Western Frontier Province (NWFP), 2009 has been particularly hard.
AFRICA: Drying, Drying, Disappearing…
- Inter Press Service
Lake Chad was bigger than Israel less than 50 years ago. Today its surface area is les than a tenth of its earlier size, amid forecasts the lake could disappear altogether within 20 years.
MIGRATION: Letting Go of the American Dream
- Inter Press Service
It is only a matter of days before Marcela Vázquez, an undocumented immigrant, leaves the southwestern U.S. state of Arizona for good. And before she does, she's putting as much as she can up for sale - including her three children's beds.
JORDAN: Palestinian Refugees Live Out Lives in Limbo
- Inter Press Service
Music enlivens the yellow taxi as it traverses the Jordanian capital. A small Palestinian flag hangs from the rearview mirror. Jihad, the cab driver, says his father fled here from the Palestinian West Bank in 1948.
VENEZUELA: Colombian Refugees in Undocumented Limbo
- Inter Press Service
Peasants fleeing Colombia's armed conflict are still trickling into Venezuela, joining the multitude who in the last seven years have requested refugee status and an identity document to help them rebuild their lives in their new country.
LAOS: TV Drama Brings Migration Risks to Life
- Inter Press Service
Thanks to the inclusion of young volunteers and migrants in the cast and crew, a Lao television mini-drama series about the lives and struggles of young migrants who freely cross the border turned out to be just the right vehicle for getting their attention to migration and its risks.
RIGHTS-US: RIGHTS-US: Panic Erupts in Wake of New Anti-Immigrant Law
- Inter Press Service
Arizona community activists and religious leaders are trying to mitigate fears over a new law that would require state employees to denounce undocumented immigrants.
PARAGUAY: Migrants Mainly Young Undocumented Guaraní-Speakers
- Inter Press Service
Freddy Garcete, a 50-year-old painter who works in the construction industry, travelled to Spain in search of better wages two years ago, becoming one of the 500,000 Paraguayans forced to seek work abroad because of the conditions at home.
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