Serbia To Organize A Regional Conference On Illegal Migration
Monday, 29 June 2015 14:31 BELGRADE – Serbia intends to organise a regional conference on the problem of illegal migration, Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic announced on Friday.
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Swiss to widen EU debate in bid to break immigration deadlock
Monday, 29 June 2015 14:31 Switzerland’s government said it will widen talks with the European Union to review a host of issues between the Alpine nation and the bloc in a bid to break a negotiating deadlock over immigration curbs.
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US: First Step to End Family Immigration Detention
Monday, 29 June 2015 14:30 (Washington, DC) – The United States Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) decision to scale back its use of family immigration detention could help thousands of children and mothers who are fleeing persecution, Human Rights Watch said today. DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson announced on June 24, 2015, that the Obama administration was committed to “substantial changes” to family immigration detention.
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International Students quickly becoming the new future of immigration in Canada
Monday, 29 June 2015 14:28 Overseas students are quickly becoming the new standard of immigration here in Canada, notes Instec International Student of Hamilton, Ontario. The opportunities that now exist for foreign students are likely to continue as visiting students become the country’s new immigrants.
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Britain to set up two-mile steel fence to control illegal immigration from Calais
Monday, 29 June 2015 14:28 BRITAIN is sending a two-mile security fence to France to stop desperate immigrants sneaking over from Calais.
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Australia's visa policy aims to attract more Chinese visitors
Monday, 29 June 2015 14:28 Australia has introduced some new visa policies and adjust some others, which are expected to play an important part in welcoming more Chinese visitors to Australia, Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Michaelia Cash told Xinhua over the weekend before she departed for her six- day China visit on Sunday.
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Muslim immigration to the U.S. on the Rise
Tuesday, 23 June 2015 13:08 Immigration into the U.S. from predominately Islamic countries has doubled in more than a decade and that number continues to rise. Some find this number alarming given recent terrorist events worldwide.
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Clinton says she would go further than Obama on immigration
Tuesday, 23 June 2015 13:08 Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives at the Aria before speaking at the NALEO conference on Thursday, June 18, 2015. Launch slideshow ».
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Croatia, Austria against walls in dealing with immigration crisis
Tuesday, 23 June 2015 13:08 The problem of refugees and illegal immigrants should be dealt with within the European Union, and putting up fences is not the way to do it, Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic and her Austrian counterpart Heinz Fischer said in Vienna on Thursday.
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Poland resists mandatory immigration quota
Tuesday, 23 June 2015 12:53 The Polish government is more and more firmly opposed to the mandatory migrant settlement quotas proposed by the EU in the light of increasing number of immigrants from Syria and Eritrea.
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US Supreme Court Hands Down 2 Decisions on Immigration
Tuesday, 23 June 2015 12:51 The United States Supreme Court handed down two important decisions this week, striking down substantive due-process rights for immigrants, but offering procedural protections for immigrants who miss deadlines in deportation proceedings.
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Slovak police detain 60 people at march against immigration quotas
Tuesday, 23 June 2015 12:51 BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – Police in Slovakia said on Saturday they detained 60 people at an anti-immigration march in the capital Bratislava after protesters damaged police cars and attacked spectators at a cycling race.
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Indian nurses in UK could be forced to return home under new immigration rules
Tuesday, 23 June 2015 12:48 London: Over 30,000 nurses from India and other non-European countries employed with Britain's state-funded National Health Service (NHS) could be forced to leave the UK under new immigration rules.
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Protests against immigration add to EU woes
Tuesday, 23 June 2015 12:48 AS EUROPE struggles to keep Greece from default and to hold its common currency together, violent protests against immigration in Slovakia and election results in Denmark at the weekend have strengthened the forces of disunion unleashed by an impassioned debate over how to deal with a flood of migrants from conflict zones.
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Yarl's Wood: Children fleeing warzones being locked up at detention centre, investigation finds
Tuesday, 23 June 2015 12:28 Children fleeing the horrors of warzones such as Syria and Afghanistan are being routinely misclassified as over-18 and locked up in adult detention centres in breach of Government policies and legal guidelines, an investigation has discovered.
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Immigration tops agenda as Denmark votes in parliamentary elections
Thursday, 18 June 2015 12:35 Voting began Thursday in Denmark's general election with opinion polls suggesting a neck-and-neck race between Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt's left-leaning bloc and the centre-right opposition.
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Poland resists mandatory immigration quota
Thursday, 18 June 2015 12:35 The Polish government is more and more firmly opposed to the mandatory migrant settlement quotas proposed by the EU in the light of increasing number of immigrants from Syria and Eritrea.
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Italy Not Ready to Carry Through With Immigration 'Plan B' –Italian Senator
Thursday, 18 June 2015 12:34 In an interview with Sputnik, Italian Senate Vice President Maurizio Gasparri warned that the government of Matteo Renzi is unprepared to deal with the refugee crisis, and that his warnings of implementing 'Plan B', which would redistribute some of the refugees seeking residency in Italy to other countries, is not backed up by firm political will.
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UK Liz Kendall says she wants an Australian-style points-based immigration system
Thursday, 18 June 2015 12:33 Britain should introduce a strict ‘Australian-style’ points-based immigration system of the kind advocated by Ukip, one of Labour’s leadership contenders has said.
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France says Italy must abide by EU immigration rules
Monday, 15 June 2015 12:39 French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve hit back at Italy over responsibility for migrants on Monday, saying it must abide by European asylum rules and that France would continue to turn them back.
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- Agadir: seminar on "the contribution of Moroccans to local development'
- Tangiers: A collective exhibition celebrates the 60th anniversary of the labour agreement between Morocco and Belgium.
- Moussem Belgica - Histoires Transnationales celebrates 60 years of migration in Belgium
- Rabat: The 6th edition of the "Festival Littératures itinérantes" on the theme of "Literature and Memory"
- Opening of the 4th International Conference on INNOVATION & HUMAN CAPITAL IN HEALTH in Rabat