Immigration is joining the digital age with new plans from the White House
Tuesday, 28 July 2015 13:26 It’s taken nearly 300 years, but one of the oldest practices in the United States is finally joining the digital age. In a blog post last week, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) declared that the American immigration system would finally be joining the 21st century and enjoying all the tech benefits that have come with the times.
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EU Economic Crisis Creates Third Migration Wave to Latin America
Tuesday, 28 July 2015 13:26 Economic opportunity has always been the prime force behind waves of emigration—usually in a single direction. But sometimes, over the long term, the pendulum swings both ways, which is the case with Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
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Merit-based migrants: Is Donald Trump softening on illegal immigration?
Tuesday, 28 July 2015 13:25 Donald Trump's latest stance on immigration reform suggests that he wants a merit-based system to allow more "outstanding" individuals to remain in the country. “If somebody’s been outstanding, we try and work something out.”
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In 2005–2014, due to negative migration, Lithuania’s population declined by 312.5 thousand
Tuesday, 28 July 2015 13:24 Statistics Lithuania informs that an annual publication Demographic Yearbook 2014 has been released. The publication provides statistical information about the structure and demographic development of the Lithuanian population: birth and death rates, marriages, divorces, migration. Comparable demographic statistics of the European Union member states and population projections of the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) are provided.
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Britain: Hip-hop hijabis challenge stereotypes
Tuesday, 28 July 2015 13:20 Growing up in a Jamaican household, if anyone had told me that when I was older I would be a Muslim, I would have laughed. Witnessing Islam in urban Britain, it felt so Asian, so male and so backward.
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Tensions run high in Rome's suburbs as Italy struggles with migration crisis
Tuesday, 28 July 2015 13:19 The wealthy suburb of Casale San Nicola on the outskirts of Rome, where well-off Italians escape the chaos of the capital and retreat into their multi-million euro villas nestled between cypress trees, seems like an unlikely flashpoint for the migrant crisis in Italy.
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Slovakia’s ‘invisible minority’ counters migration fears
Tuesday, 28 July 2015 13:19 Immigration has been at the centre of Slovakia’s public discourse in recent weeks, and though it may seem so, the issue is hardly a new one. Vietnamese people, for instance, have lived in Slovakia since the 1970s and today the community totals some 20,000.
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Quebec millionaire migration scheme falls short of target, as some rich Chinese look elsewhere
Tuesday, 28 July 2015 13:18 One of the world’s most popular wealth-migration schemes, Quebec’s Immigrant Investor Programme, has failed to reach its target of applications for the first time, as wealthy Chinese look for alternatives to Canada’s turmoil-plagued millionaire-migration systems.
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French government attacked as 'too soft' over ‘lenient’ immigration bill
Tuesday, 21 July 2015 22:09 A controversial immigration bill criticised as excessively lenient came under fire from the centre-Right opposition on Monday as France struggles to cope with the growing migrant crisis.
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The UK government's student immigration policy is bad for business and the economy
Tuesday, 21 July 2015 22:09 Education, particularly higher education, is one of this country’s great success stories. Every year thousands of students come here to learn and along the way they become lifelong friends of Britain.
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New immigration figures prompt 'back door to Britain' fears
Tuesday, 21 July 2015 22:08 The number of immigrants born outside Europe who came to live in this country after winning EU citizenship elsewhere has tripled in the last decade, a new report has confirmed.
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Migration to Europe hits highest level since World War II
Tuesday, 21 July 2015 22:08 The number of displaced people fleeing from war, conflict or persecution and looking for a better future in other countries has exceeded 59 million, the highest number since World War II, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
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Children in immigration tribunals 'may have to represent themselves'
Tuesday, 21 July 2015 22:07 Vulnerable children are at risk of having to represent themselves in immigration tribunals because they no longer qualify for legal aid, according to a report by the Children’s Society.
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STUDY: Hispanic Guests And The Sunday Shows: Fewer Appearances On English-Language Programs, Single-Issue Emphasis On Immigration Continues
Tuesday, 21 July 2015 22:07 A new Media Matters report on the "single issue syndrome" found that Spanish-language Sunday shows continue to devote considerable attention to immigration at the apparent expense of issues equally important to the Latino community. In addition, although Latinos make up more than 17 percent of the U.S. population, only 4 percent of guests on English-language Sunday shows between January 4 and May 3, 2015 were Hispanic - a drop of 42 percent from their 2014 appearances over a similar time period.
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Xenophobic wave of tips target ‘illegal’ Korean residents; immigration bureaus overwhelmed
Tuesday, 21 July 2015 22:06 An Internet rumor that hundreds of thousands of ethnic Korean residents are to be deported has seen immigration bureaus nationwide deluged with “tips” from bounty seekers and others about neighbors who in fact remain legal residents.
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NZ net migration reaches new annual record in June, swelled by Indian, Chinese students
Tuesday, 21 July 2015 22:06 New Zealand annual net migration rose to a new record in June as arrivals continued to be bolstered by Chinese and Indian students, while fewer locals departed for Australia.
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Opponents to EU, migration hold meeting in centre of Prague
Tuesday, 21 July 2015 21:25 About 400 people met in Prague Saturday in protest against the EU, Islam and the recent immigration of refugees to Europe, and heard speaker Jan Jiskra calling on the government not to accept any refugees, to outlaw Islam and the sharia law and to protect Czech borders more toughly.
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California Proposes Innovative Immigration Fix
Tuesday, 14 July 2015 14:22 Frustrated by Washington's inaction on immigration issues, California lawmakers are considering a measure to allow work permits for farmworkers living in the country illegally.
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UK universities at risk from ‘ill-informed’ immigration debate, warns Cambridge v-c
Tuesday, 14 July 2015 14:22 Sir Leszek Borysiewicz draws on his own background as the child of Polish immigrants to counter ‘negative’ rhetoric on immigration.
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Foreign students will be banned from working in the UK and forced to leave as soon as they finish course under Theresa May's tough new visa rules
Tuesday, 14 July 2015 14:21 Foreign students will be banned from working in the UK while they study and will be forced to leave the country as soon as they finish their course under tough new rules unveiled by Theresa May, the Home Secretary.
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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