Migration & Refugees

Market Gardening, a Ladder to Progress for Bolivians in Argentina

By Marcela Valente
At the age of 53, Alberto Ramírez has come a long way since he came from Bolivia to Argentina every year during the harvest season since he was 12 years old, to work alongside his father. He now has a prosperous vegetable and fruit wholesale business in this city on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.

A Migration Story Comes Full Circle

By K. S. Harikrishnan
For the first time in over four decades, the number of people migrating out of the southern Indian state of Kerala, home to 33.3 million people, is on the decline.

UZBEKISTAN-TAJIKISTAN: Souring Political Relations Damaging Human Ties

By Konstantin Parshin
This summer, a 32-year-old musician with Uzbek citizenship was visiting her mother in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. For the last decade, the musician has lived in the Tajik capital Dushanbe with her husband, an ethnic Uzbek, and their 10-year-old daughter.

Mexico, the End of the ‘American Dream’ for Child Migrants

By Edgardo Ayala
For many undocumented child migrants from Central America, Mexico is the end of the road in their endeavour to reach the United States, driven by economic reasons, gang violence and domestic violence.
Photo courtesy of Bela Hovy.

Q&A: Migration Now a Key Part of the Global Economy

By Mathieu Carat
As international migration continues to grow in scope, complexity and impact, effectively managing it has steadily moved up on the agenda of the international community.

Changing Demographics Likely to Tip Scales for Obama Re-election

By Carey L. Biron
With just six weeks left before the U.S. presidential polls, analysts on Tuesday suggested that recent demographic changes in the United States, particularly through immigration, have made it more difficult than ever for a Republican candidate to vie for president.

For Palestinian Workers, the Enemy Is the Hope

By Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Hassan Hader’s application for a permit to work in Israel has been rejected four times. Now waiting to hear back from the Israeli authorities on his latest attempt, the 52-year-old father of five said he has no choice but to keep applying.

GEORGIA: Anti-Turkish Sentiments Grow as Election Date Nears

By Molly Corso
Rooted in longstanding historical, religious and economic differences, Georgian animosity toward neighbouring Turkey, Georgia’s fifth-largest investor, appears to be growing in the Black Sea region of Achara.

Growing Public Discontent with Turkish Syria Policy

By Jacques N. Couvas
Public approval of the Turkish government’s foreign policy has reached its lowest point - a mere 18 percent - in the past decade, according to a poll released here this week that showed only 18 percent of respondents said they favoured Ankara’s handling of the escalating sectarian violence in neighbouring Syria.
Extremist sympathisers in the Greek police force breed impunity. Credit: George Laoutaris/CC-BY-ND-2.0

Xenophobes Find Police Protection in Greece

By Apostolis Fotiadis
Panahi Gholamhousein (22), an Afghan refugee who spends his days in a room that is barely five square metres with his wife Zarmina (18) and their 19-month-old daughter Zahra, has hardly left his place in downtown Athens since he was beaten up and robbed nearly a month ago.

Separated, And Cohabitating For Now

By Walter García and Pierre Klochendler
“See the bullets from the 1948 and 1967 wars,” Badr Abu Ad-Dula says, showing the scars of the old frontline on the outer walls of the building where he and his family of 13 live. “Here’s the Jordanian outpost.” The elderly Palestinian points at a loophole, now a bedroom window.
A Rohingya woman in a refugee camp. Credit: Rohingyarefugeebangladesh/cc by 2.0

Mob Violence Continues Against Myanmar’s Rohingya

By Becky Bergdahl
Myanmar, also known as Burma, has taken important steps towards democracy and greater respect for human rights during the last months with one exception, activists say – the situation for the Rohingya minority, which has faced an outburst of violent attacks this summer.

Drawing an Uncertain Kurdish Map

By Karlos Zurutuza
Over a yellowish map, Qehreman Meri draws an oblong surface along the Turkish-Syrian border. "We want an autonomous region with clearly defined boundaries," says this spokesman from Yeketi (Unity), one of 15 Kurdish political parties in Syria.

When a Courtyard Becomes a Border

By Walter García and Pierre Klochendler
Filistin Hamdallah looks disoriented, walking without purpose amidst the furniture strewn in the courtyard, as if she was moving home. Only the fresh laundry hanging on wires indicates that the Palestinian family is here to stay, to stay in conditions with Jewish neighbours that show just how difficult the divisions in Jerusalem can be.

OP-ED: MEXICO-U.S.: La Caravana Has Arrived

By Salvador G. Sarmiento
On Monday, after a month-long trek across the United States, a caravan of victims of violence in Mexico made its way to Washington, D.C.

Syrian Kurds Find the Language of Freedom

By Karlos Zurutuza
"I want to learn how to read and write in my own language," says Manal, a young Kurd from Syria. Neither she nor any of Manal’s 30 classmates have ever been so close to achieving their goal.

Hazaras in Pakistan Caught Between Persecution and the High Seas

By Zofeen Ebrahim
It will be no less than a miracle if Nadir Ali makes it to Australia, where he planned to seek asylum. But with each passing day, since his boat went missing over two months ago, hopes are dimming.

Women Take up Care of Tohoku Elders

By Suvendrini Kakuchi
Yumiko Yonekura, who survived last year’s massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated Tohoku in northeast Japan, has just launched ‘Hot Care Kesenuma’, a welfare company that provides special care for feeble elders in the affected region.

Long Wait to Defect From Assad’s Forces

By Karlos Zurutuza
"Of course I want to defect but I cannot give up my salary. How could I possibly feed my 11 children?" The war is putting every Syrian on the brink, including this policeman on the side of President Bashar Al Assad.

Australian Detention Centres Risk Violating Human Rights

By Lawrence Del Gigante
Australia's recent decision to move asylum seekers to offshore detention facilities has alarmed human rights organisations.

Irregular Migrants Face the Boot in Greece

By Apostolis Fotiadis
A crackdown on irregular migration has entered its fourth week in Greece. The government is shutting the Greek-Turkish northeastern border across river Evros, and removing massive numbers of undocumented migrants from big urban centres into makeshift detention camps.
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