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Fight Over Arizona’s Migrant Law Heads to the Courts
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
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
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
Members of the Haitian diaspora responded with "massive and spontaneous" aid immediately after the Jan. 12 earthquake, with thousands of professionals leaving jobs abroad to go and assist their compatriots, according to a government minister.
PHILIPPINES: Death Penalty Dashes Migrant Workers’ Hopes
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
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
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’
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?
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
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.
CHINA: E-waste Processing Poisons Health, Environment
Like many who have profited from the electronic waste trade in this southern Chinese town, hospital administrator Lin Banghong does not live there. "I've worked here 10 years and haven't gotten sick," he said.RIGHTS: Iceland Wakes Up to Trafficking for Sex Work
It took the conviction of five Lithuanian men in March, on charges of bringing a 19-year-old girl into Iceland for sex work, before this country truly woke up to the reality of trafficking.Mexico, Journey of Terror for Central American Migrants
"The fifth time I tried to get to the United States I left Guatemala, crossed the border into Mexico, and on a bus I was assaulted by five police officers," Guatemalan migrant José Donis said Wednesday.
MIGRATION-US: “You’re a Criminal Just Because You’re Brown-Skinned”
Critics of Arizona's new immigration law, which requires police to question people they suspect to be undocumented immigrants, say "reasonable suspicion" boils down to having brown skin and looking Latino.U.S.: Protests Mount Against Immigrant Crackdown
Three civil rights organisations are suing the U.S. government to obtain records related to a little-known programme known as "Secure Communities" that further involves local and state police in federal immigration enforcement.Arizona Could Pay High Price for Anti-Immigrant Law
U.S. immigration experts, law enforcement officials and religious leaders are hitting back at the draconian legislation signed into law in Arizona last week, charging it will subject the state to "staggering potential costs" and vowing to have the law declared unconstitutional in the courts.
Q&A: U.S. Immigration Needs an Internal Watchdog
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has come under growing fire for its poor treatment of would-be immigrants held in detention - including a number of controversial deaths, lack of medical facilities, administrative bungling resulting in loss of records, and absence of due process for detainees at ICE detention centres.U.S. Sheriff Abused Immigration “Detainer”, Lawsuit Charges
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing a Colorado sheriff it says held a man for 47 days with no charges, no opportunity to see a judge and no opportunity to post bail, simply because federal immigration officers suspected that the man was in the U.S. in violation of federal immigration laws.
Arizona at Epicentre of Divisive U.S. Immigration Debate
Protests and acts of civil disobedience are taking place in the southwest U.S. state of Arizona as it becomes the main battleground in a divisive struggle over illegal immigration.Haitian-Dominican Relations Warming After Quake
Angela Solis de Pena remembered the story that her parents told her of a Haitian man who tried to rape a Dominican woman; after the woman escaped the man chased her and hacked her to death.
Farm Workers Fight for an Extra Cent
Chanting "No more slaves! Pay a living wage!", hundreds of farmworkers, students and others marched 22 miles through central Florida for three days, calling on the Publix supermarket chain to pay an extra penny to the impoverished workers who pick their tomatoes.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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.
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