Migration & Refugees

U.S. Education System Not Helping Immigrant Parents

By Michelle Tullo
Immigrant parents in the United States face serious challenges accessing early elementary programmes for their children, advocates here are warning.

Immigrants Face Indefinite Detention in Greece

By Apostolis Fotiadis
The evolution of immigration and border control policy in Greece and its interdependence with European funding suggests an agenda which has been decided above national legislatures with strong coordination between European political actors and economic interests, while ignoring the human suffering it produces.

Somalia Warns Kenyan Refugee Expulsion Will Lead to ‘Chaos and Anarchy’

By Muhyadin Ahmed Roble
Somalia’s State Minister for Interior and Federalism Affairs Mohamud Moalim Yahye has told IPS that the hasty repatriation and mass deportation of its citizens by Kenya could compromise recent, critical security improvements made by regional governments against the Islamic extremist group, Al-Shabaab.

Fiji Leads Pacific Region on Climate Adaptation Efforts

By Catherine Wilson
Still a long way off in many parts of the world, climate displacement is already a reality in the Pacific Islands, where rising seas are contaminating fresh water and agricultural land, and rendering some coastal areas uninhabitable.

Syrian Rebel-held Mountain Villages Preparing for Bigger Battles

By Shelly Kittleson
In the mountains east of the coastal port of government-held Latakia, three years of regime bombardment has left swaths of blackened stumps in the mountain forests and crumbling concrete structures in Sunni villages, most of whose inhabitants support opposition forces.

Syrian Doctors Grapple With Medical Emergency and Ethics

By Shelly Kittleson
As once-eliminated diseases resurface and barrel bombs and alleged chlorine attacks target civilians, doctors in rebel-held areas and across the border struggle with issues of how best to serve their profession.

Why Nigeria Couldn’t Keep Schoolgirls Safe and Why Paris Summit May Offer Hope

By Ini Ekott
Tomorrow Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan will meet other heads of state at a security summit in Paris, France to focus on ways of combatting Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group which kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from Chibok in April.

Bulgaria, No Country For Syrian Refugees

By Claudia Ciobanu
Since November last year, Bulgaria has virtually closed its borders to an inflow of Syrian asylum seekers and other migrants trying to enter the country from Turkey, while EU institutions concerned appear to have acquiesced to this. 

Migration as a Network for Development

By Michelle Tullo
On the eve of a major international conference on migration in Stockholm, a major think tank here is calling on the delegates from more than 150 countries to recognise the importance of migration in forging development policies.

Undocumented Students in U.S. Stuck in Limbo

By Jane Regan
He did everything right. Worked hard. Excelled in school. Captain of his soccer team. He’s been scouted by a half-dozen colleges and universities.

With Refugees Comes Crime

By Ashfaq Yusufzai
Blaming Afghan refugees for a surge in crime, Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has placed restrictions on the movement of those who do not possess legal documents to stay in the country.

OP-ED: The Two-State Option is Dead: Time for New Thinking

By Emile Nakhleh
The recent suspension of the U.S. -engineered Israeli-Palestinian talks signals a much deeper reality than the immediate factors that caused it. The peace process and the two-state solution, which for years were on life support, are now dead.

No Choice But To Work Without Pay

By Stella Paul
The southern Indian city Hyderabad is witnessing a construction boom as it prepares to become the joint capital of two states - Andhra Pradesh and the soon to be formed Telangana. Buildings are coming up in almost every neighbourhood.

Face of Slave Labour Changing in Brazil

By Fabíola Ortiz
The upcoming mega sporting events in Brazil are paving a new route for slave labour among those migrating from rural areas to the cities in search of work.

Kyrgyzstan Ponders the Impact of Russia’s Citizenship Law Amendments

By Asel Kalybekova
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed legislation recently offering fast-track citizenship to Russian speakers anywhere within the former Soviet Union.

Kenya’s Nationwide Clampdown on Islamic Extremism ‘Counterproductive’

By Noor Ali
Kenya’s government was warned by Muslim clerics about the radicalisation and recruitment of youths by Al-Shabaab six years ago but did not take action, says Sheikh Ahmed, a management committee member of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya.

Kerry Draws Israel Hawks’ Ire Amid Failed Talks

By Mitchell Plitnick
In the wake of the collapse of U.S.-led peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the angry rhetoric around this conflict has only escalated.

Japan Seeks Foreign Workers, Uneasily

By Suvendrini Kakuchi
Desperate for more workers to support a construction boom, Japan has proposed to expand its controversial foreign trainee programme to permit more unskilled labour from Asia to work in Japanese companies for five years from the current three years.

Bringing the Bridges Home

By Francesca Dziadek
As foreign forces withdraw slowly from Afghanistan, they leave behind a vulnerable band of people who were their ears and guides on the ground. These people who served as interpreters, face a life of threats and uncertainties. Many have been killed.

Ending Modern Slavery Starts in the Boardroom

By Farangis Abdurazokzoda
Modern-day slavery can be eradicated from multinational supply chains, but only if global businesses contribute to greater transparency and collaboration, according to new recommendations by Sedex Global and Verite.

Tajikistan’s Government Distances Itself from Labour Migrants

By an EurasiaNet correspondent
Labour migrants make up Tajikistan’s economic lifeline, but that’s a fact the Central Asian country’s leadership doesn’t seem eager to acknowledge.
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