UK Immigration: Conservative Victory in Britain Could Mean Tough Road Ahead For Migrants
Monday, 11 May 2015 15:03 New immigrants in the U.K. could see their benefits delayed four years under Prime Minister David Cameron's immigration reform plan. In many cases, they may be denied entry into the United Kingdom altogether.
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40% rise in Jewish immigration to Israel attributed to surge from Ukraine and Russia
Monday, 11 May 2015 15:02 Altogether 6,499 Jews arrived in Israel between January and March. The vast majority came from Europe, but the only substantial increase came from Eastern Europe with numbers from Western Europe remaining steady.
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Immigration: Will China be the new Mexico?
Monday, 11 May 2015 15:02 Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton will have a formidable weapon to disarm Republican anti-immigration candidates who want to virtually seal the U.S. southern border — there are already more Chinese than Mexican immigrants who enter the United States every year.
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Immigration to become more poisonous issue as EU backs quota system
Monday, 11 May 2015 15:01 Member countries are deeply divided over proposals that would distribute asylum seekers more equitably across the union.
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No end in sight for immigrants on deportation roller coaster, experts say
Monday, 11 May 2015 13:56 Millions of undocumented immigrants — and legions of immigration lawyers — are holding their breath. Last November they embarked on a legal roller coaster ride when President Barack Obama issued an executive action granting an estimated 5 million undocumented parents of U.S. citizen children temporary relief from deportation — a legal move that immigration scholars are increasingly starting to question.
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Top immigration officials pitch new fingerprint-sharing program to wary activists
Monday, 11 May 2015 13:56 That’s the feeling among activists who met with two high-level federal officials this week in California to discuss the Priority Enforcement Program (PEP), a new version of the government’s immigration enforcement partnership with local police.
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Accusations of Terrorism Worry Brooklyn’s Muslim Uzbek Community
Monday, 11 May 2015 13:56 To understand the Uzbek community of Brooklyn, sit down and share a cup of tea with some of them. Please, drink. They pride themselves on hospitality, and to refuse would be impolite.
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Immigration: Still a way to go for Japanese minorities
Monday, 11 May 2015 13:55 In August 2014 Yasuyuki Kaneko, a city councillor for Sapporo, sparked intense controversy by tweeting ‘there are no such people as the Ainu any more, are there? [But] they constantly demand rights they don’t deserve. How can this be reasonable?’
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British immigrants decry being made scapegoats in election campaign
Friday, 08 May 2015 10:45 LONDON — Many embattled immigrants here feel they are being blamed for everything from traffic jams to crowded schools and hospitals. But as Britain’s bitterly divisive general election campaign draws to a close, some are now pushing back.
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Social media, #Immigration, and political knowledge in #Ukelection2015
Friday, 08 May 2015 10:44 When U.K. voters go to the polls May 7, one of the major issues they’ll be thinking about is immigration. A big story in this election is the increased popularity of the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP, whose leader Nigel Farage is pictured above) as they have criticized the government for allowing too many immigrants from other E.U. countries and thus allegedly jeopardizing the job prospects of native Britons and undercutting the National Health Service. Indeed, though UKIP has plenty of detractors, surveys indicate that they are the party most trusted to control immigration. UKIP has also been punching above its weight on social media, and were at one point the most talked-about party on social media.
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Immigration battle moves to the military
Friday, 08 May 2015 10:43 A battle is brewing in the Republican Party over whether illegal immigrants granted deferred deportation by President Obama should be eligible to serve in the military.
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Africa disgorges 6,000 illegal immigrants into Italy in a single weekend
Wednesday, 06 May 2015 13:08 ROME, Italy– An uninterrupted flood of illegal immigrants continues to issue forth from Africa into Italy, with this past weekend’s count now nearing 6,000 refugees.
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Survey suggests Nigeria Diasporans prefer US, UK
Wednesday, 06 May 2015 13:05 Lagos - The United States of America and the United Kingdom top the list of countries most Nigerians abroad live in compared to other countries in the world.
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Asia's wealthy want their kids to study abroad: report
Wednesday, 06 May 2015 13:03 Wealthy people in Asia are investing more in their children's education, with those in China favoring having their children study overseas with other students of the same social status, according to Shanghai's China Business News.
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Arsonists carry out new attack on German asylum-seekers' refuge
Wednesday, 06 May 2015 13:03 BERLIN - Police in western Germany said on Wednesday that unidentified arsonists had set fire overnight to housing being prepared for aslyum-seekers, causing 50,000 euros worth of damage, before fleeing the scene in a car.
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S. Africa envisages border management agency to curb illegal immigration
Wednesday, 06 May 2015 13:02 CAPE TOWN, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Plans are advanced for the establishment of South Africa's Border Management Agency (BMA) led by the Department of Home Affairs to curb illegal immigration, State Security Minister David Mahlobo said on Tuesday.
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Australia Is Trying to Get Refugees to Resettle in Cambodia and Unsurprisingly They Refuse to Go
Wednesday, 06 May 2015 13:02 Some 750 asylum seekers living in Australian government detention on the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru face an impossible choice. They can stay on Nauru in squalid conditions. Or they can be resettled, of all places, in impoverished Cambodia — a country with a long record of human-rights abuses, where refugees are discriminated against and the chances of finding work are slim.
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Immigration dividing the nation ahead of UK elections
Tuesday, 05 May 2015 13:54 For many in Britain, the European Union’s cherished principle of free movement is perhaps the most controversial.
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Immigrants to U.S. From China Top Those From Mexico
Tuesday, 05 May 2015 13:53 Move over, Mexico. When it comes to sending immigrants to the U.S., China and India have taken the lead.
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Immigration Reform 2015: Illegal Immigrants Could Get Free Health Care Under Proposed California Law
Tuesday, 05 May 2015 13:53 A 2015 May Day rally in Los Angeles. May 1, the International Workers Day everywhere but the U.S., has become associated with immigration as well as labor issues.
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- The Euro-Mediterranean University of Fez meetings on the Alliance of Civilisations with participation of the Moroccan Community Council Abroad
- Migration Flows Management: Spain Hails “Close Cooperation with Morocco
- The Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) publishes a new report on the social and economic status of Moroccans in the Netherlands.
- France, Morocco Hold Unprecedented Meeting in Paris to Improve Migration Procedures
- Mr. Driss el Yazami on “decentralised cooperation in the history of Moroccan migration” at the Eugène Delacroix Circle