Women, Black Groups Mark 5 Years of Arizona Immigration Law
Thursday, 23 April 2015 12:48 For organizers like Celeste Faison, the fight for civil rights isn't limited to the U.S.-born black community. It also extends to immigrants who experience hardships caused by what she sees as the nation's broken immigration system.
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Nigel Farage: Indian and Australian immigrants better than eastern Europeans
Thursday, 23 April 2015 12:48 Nigel Farage has said he would prefer immigrants from India and Australia to eastern Europeans, despite previously claiming that his party would not want to discriminate against new arrivals by nationality.
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Australia’s Immigration Minister Has Been Accused of ‘Torturing’ a Refugee Girl
Thursday, 23 April 2015 12:46 Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has been accused of mentally torturing a 5-year-old girl by keeping her in a detention center for asylum seekers on the Pacific island of Nauru.
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Britain's FinTech industry would suffer on tighter immigration controls
Wednesday, 22 April 2015 12:08 Britain's financial technology industry could face a dearth of suitable employees to fill job positions if the next government tightens controls over immigration, says recruitment firm Morgan McKinley.
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Immigration Is a Problem For Most GOP 2016 Hopefuls
Wednesday, 22 April 2015 12:07 Now that Florida Senator Marco Rubio has officially entered the presidential foray, one issue that continues to plague his candidacy among conservatives is immigration. But should immigration really doom Rubio's presidential ambitions this primary season? Because most Republican candidates - or likely candidates - have their own inconsistencies.
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New migration crisis overwhelms European refugee system
Wednesday, 22 April 2015 12:07 TRÖGLITZ, Germany — As Europe confronts a rapidly escalating migration crisis driven by war, persecution and poverty in an arc of strife from West Africa to Afghanistan, even high-level European officials are beginning to admit the obvious.
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Immigration Influx Leads to Better Understanding of Nonverbal Expressions: Study
Wednesday, 22 April 2015 12:07 Multicultural areas, particularly those without a shared language, tend to produce more individuals who efficiently rely on nonverbal expression of emotions to gauge what others are thinking.
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UN expert: rich countries must take in one million refugees to stop boat deaths
Wednesday, 22 April 2015 12:06 Wealthy countries should agree on a comprehensive plan to take one million refugees from Syria over the next five years to end the unfolding series of boat disasters in the Mediterranean, the UN’s special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants has urged.
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High-Skilled Immigrant Workers Good for Economy, Report Says
Wednesday, 22 April 2015 12:06 The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation released a report this week on high-skilled immigrant visas. It comes at a time when the demand for H1-B visas is at a record high, and when Utah’s senior Senator Orrin Hatch has reintroduced a proposal that could more than double the number of these visas available.
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North Europe must help tackle migrant crisis, Mediterranean MEPs
Wednesday, 22 April 2015 12:06 Europe is the cause of the current migrant crisis in the Mediterranean - or the solution, depending on whom you talk to. European heads of state have been called to an emergency summit on Thursday to address the growing number of people drowning in the crossing from North Africa to Europe. European lawmakers, talking to RFI, welcomed the attention being paid to the issue but questioned whether the political will to tackle the issue is there.
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EU to Launch Pilot Project on Sharing Refugee Resettlement
Wednesday, 22 April 2015 12:05 The European Commission is planning to propose a pilot program on sharing the burden of refugee resettlement among all EU members, the European migration policy chief said Monday.
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European Council President Tusk Convenes Emergency EU Immigration Meeting
Tuesday, 21 April 2015 12:38 Heads of the European Union’s member states will gather for an emergency meeting on immigration on Thursday, European Council President Donald Tusk announced Monday.
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Many Migrants Drawn by Jobs, Welfare in Northern Europe
Tuesday, 21 April 2015 12:37 For tens of thousands of migrants who survive the hazardous crossing of the Mediterranean, the journey often continues as they slip through cracks in Italy's border controls and head north.
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Some 70,000 sign petition to end immigration controls between Canada, Australia, New Zealand and U.K.
Tuesday, 21 April 2015 12:34 A group of globe-trotting friends in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Britain have banded together as a lobby group and created an online petition aimed at eliminating immigration controls between the four Commonwealth countries.
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Britain's immigration debate has taken a turn for the toxic
Tuesday, 21 April 2015 12:33 Whether it is the attacks on migrants crossing the Mediterranean or questions about Nick Clegg's heritage, our national debate on immigration has taken a nasty turn.
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Immigration Documentary Asks To Define 'American' At The Festival Of Books
Tuesday, 21 April 2015 12:33 As the sun beat down on day two of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, visitors stayed cool in USC’s darkened Ray Stark theater. But the room was silent as a documentary opened with bustling scenes of Manila, Philippines flickering across the screen.
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Funny South African Fast-Food Commercial Is Pro-Immigration, Pro-French Fry
Tuesday, 21 April 2015 12:08 After attaining independence from its colonial ruler in 1994, South Africa became a model of racial unity in Africa, as well as a poster-child of economic prosperity in the region. It also attracted a lot of foreign immigrants.
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U.S. sends illegal immigrants home on expensive charter flights that are largely empty
Tuesday, 21 April 2015 12:07 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement may be wasting loads of money flying illegal immigrants home on expensive but largely empty charter flights, according to federal auditors.
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Rising Toll on Migrants Leaves Europe in Crisis; 900 May Be Dead at Sea
Tuesday, 21 April 2015 12:07 ROME — European leaders were confronted on Monday with a humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean, as estimates that as many as 900 migrants may have died off the Libyan coast this weekend prompted calls for a new approach to the surging number of refugees crossing from Africa and the Middle East.
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EU has 'no more excuses' on migrants after Mediterranean tragedy
Monday, 20 April 2015 11:30 Foreign ministers join interior ministers for talks after boat smuggling 700 migrants capsized off Libya
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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