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ANGOLA: Tit-for-Tat Deportations Leave Thousands At Risk
By Louise Redvers
LUANDA - 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.  
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MIGRATION-BRAZIL: Gov't Engages Three Million Far-Flung Citizens
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - 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.
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NICARAGUA: Young People Exiled by Poverty
By José Adán Silva
MANAGUA - If they could, about 60 percent of Nicaraguans under 30 would go to live abroad, according to studies on migration, which find that the country's chronic poverty is the main reason for wanting to migrate.
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MIGRATION-EL SALVADOR: Broken Homes, Broken Families
By Edgardo Ayala
SAN SALVADOR - 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.
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BULGARIA: Migrants Denied Even Medicine
By Claudia Ciobanu
BUCHAREST - 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.
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EUROPEAN UNION: 'Giving With One Hand, Taking With the Other'
By Peter Dhondt
BRUSSELS - "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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SWITZERLAND: Undocumented Migrants Run Their Own School
By Ray Smith
ZURICH - Switzerland is a tough place for asylum-seekers and undocumented migrants. In Zurich, they have been running a remarkable campaign for the past year, challenging the canton's asylum policy. Now, they have opened their own school.
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PHILIPPINES: Women in Troubled South Bear Heavy Burden of Conflict
By Prime Sarmiento
MANILA - For Father Eduardo Vasquez, setting up 'Bahay Kalinga’ (House of Care) in the province of Maguindanao is one way of deepening his mission.
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YEMEN: Children Flee Fighting
By Phoebe Greenwood*
AMRAN, Yemen - As the conflict between government forces and Houthi fighters grinds on in the mountains of Saada in northern Yemen, thousands of Yemeni civilians, many of them children, are being forced from their homes by the fighting.
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GERMANY: Muslims Targeted Again
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - Immigrants and foreigners were again targeted through the election campaign last month by right-wing politicians looking to win votes through racist statements.
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SRI LANKA: Right to Travel Under Threat from New Laws
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO - New laws dealing with foreign employment agents and migrant workers, Sri Lanka’s biggest foreign revenue earner, have stirred up a hornet’s nest and concerns over a fundamental issue – the freedom to travel.
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Q&A: Turin Embraces Moniker of "Multicultural Hotspot"
Matteo Fracassi interviews ILDA CURTI, Turin's integration commissioner
UNITED NATIONS - As the Italian government cracks down ever harder on new waves of migrants, the city of Turin has taken a different approach, reaching out to immigrant communities and embracing a philosophy of economic, social and cultural integration.
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MIGRATION-US: Controversial Sheriff Dismisses Federal Probe
By Valeria Fernández
PHOENIX, Arizona - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, nationally known for his crackdown on undocumented migrants in Arizona, could have all of his immigration enforcement powers taken away by the federal government.
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Human migration is a matter of global concern. Flows of migrants and refugees influence and change the social, economic and political dynamics of their destinations -- and the places they have left behind. IPS covers crucial issues such as migrant and refugee rights, irregular or undocumented migration, human trafficking, remittances, displaced persons and forced labour. And the positive: in many cases migration creates a new dialogue among civilisations. Migrants themselves become the building blocks of bridges connecting different cultures.