News headlines for “Immigration”, page 269
U.S.: Arizona Renews Push to Criminalise Immigrants
- Inter Press Service
Arizona could become the first state in the U.S. to criminalise the very presence of undocumented immigrants.
US-ECUADOR: Luring Migrants Home an Uphill Battle
- Inter Press Service
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has a Ph.D. in economics, though it may not have prepared him for the recent financial turmoil that beset his coastal country.
UGANDA: Rebuilding Home and Hearth
- Inter Press Service
Dusk gathers in the thickets of Palemy village, in the Gulu district of northern Uganda. Men, women, and children follow foot paths through the dark to the residence of Mzee Otto Yuvani.
CLIMATE CHANGE: The Rising Tide of Environmental Refugees
- Inter Press Service
Our early twenty-first century civilisation is being squeezed between advancing deserts and rising seas.
CHINA: Too Many Graduates, Very Few Jobs
- Inter Press Service
Feng Danya studied foreign languages. She had hoped to be part of a growing local company and grow with them, she says. But her timing was wrong. She graduated in the summer of uncertainty for the global economy and many Chinese start-ups.
ANGOLA: Tit-for-Tat Deportations Leave Thousands At Risk
- Inter Press Service
More than 30,000 Angolans are stranded in transit camps after being abruptly deported from the Democratic Republic of Congo and there are growing fears of a cholera outbreak as the rainy season begins.
MIGRATION-BRAZIL: Gov't Engages Three Million Far-Flung Citizens
- Inter Press Service
Brazil, a major source of migrants since the 1980s, is now working at recognising and supporting the rights of the three million Brazilians who are scattered among over 100 countries.
MIGRATION-EL SALVADOR: Broken Homes, Broken Families
- Inter Press Service
Zoila, 54, is raising her two grandchildren, who were left behind when her daughter headed to the United States in search of a better income. There are many women like her acting as surrogate mothers to their grandchildren in El Salvador, one of the Latin American countries with the largest proportion of its population living and working abroad.
BULGARIA: Migrants Denied Even Medicine
- Inter Press Service
Hasun Albaadzh, an asylum-seeker from Syria, died Oct. 6 at the Busmantsi detention centre on the outskirts of Bulgarian capital Sofia. He had been held at Busmantsi for 34 months - considerably more than the maximum legal period of detention - and had been denied proper medical care.
EUROPEAN UNION: 'Giving With One Hand, Taking With the Other'
- Inter Press Service
'EU policies continue to undermine the economic, social and human development of developing countries' despite repeated commitments in treaties and declarations, a group of European NGOs said in a report published Wednesday.
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