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Census 2010: Gains and Losses in Congress

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Matt Bloch, Matthew Ericson, Kevin Quealy - Dec. 21 (Research) - The Census Bureau rearranged the country’s political map on Tuesday, giving more Congressional seats to the South and the West, and taking away from the Northeast and the Midwest. The state population counts are the first results released from the 2010 Census, and are used to reapportion seats in Congress, and, in turn, the Electoral College.

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GOP-Leaning States Gain in Census

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Patrick O'connor - Dec. 21 (News Report) - Republican-leaning states in the South and Southwest will add congressional seats in the next election with the release of new Census figures. Texas will gain four House seats, while Florida will add two seats.

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Chinese Remake the ‘Made in Italy’ Fashion Label

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Rachel Donadio - Sep. 13 (News) - Chinese laborers, first a few immigrants, then tens of thousands, began settling in Prato in the late 1980s. They transformed the textile hub into a low-end garment manufacturing capital — enriching many, stoking resentment and prompting recent crackdowns that in turn have brought cries of bigotry and hypocrisy.

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In Guillen’s Strong Words, Mets See a Nugget of Truth

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Waldstein - Aug. 03 (News) - Beltran, like many of the rest of the 15 active Mets born outside the continental United states, sees some validity in what Chicago White Sox Manager Ozzie Guillen said Sunday when he claimed Asian players were afforded preferential treatment. Why, Guillen wondered aloud, do Asian players get interpreters but Spanish-speaking players do not, especially at the lower levels of the minor leagues?

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The global political issues playing out at the World Cup.

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Brian Fung - Jun. 11 (News Analysis) - Since attending the World Cup is out of the question for most North Koreans, Pyongyang has solved its on-site fan shortage by recruiting a thousand Chinese citizens to fly the old red, white, and blue on its behalf. Among the members of the

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Brain gain: African migrants returning home

Sat, 29 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - May. 29 (Special Report) - Africa may still be suffering from a chronic brain drain but some of the continent's elite are turning their backs on the West and taking their talents back home according to film-maker Andy Jones.

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Downturn Does Little to Slow Global Flow of Workers

Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By JASON DePARLE - May. 28 (Special Report) - The world may be staggering through its worst economy in 70 years, but international migration, an ever-growing force, shows few signs of retreat.

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India's migrant workers face hostility in Mumbai

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Ben Arnoldy - Apr. 09 (News) - In India's crowded and burdened cities such as Mumbai, local politicians have rekindled antimigrant attitudes by trying to restrict labor licenses to those who can speak a local language. Most migrant workers cannot.

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Once again, Ireland's young prepare to leave

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Tracy McVeigh - Feb. 28 (Special Report) - Ireland, which went from being one of Europe's poorest countries to one of its richest in less than a decade, has hit the bottom. Gross domestic product fell 7.3% last year. This month a report by financial experts Davy Research concluded that the republic had largely wasted a decade of high income during the boom, with private enterprise investing its wealth "in the wrong places".

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Genetic 'map' of Asia's diversity

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By Bbc - Dec. 11 (News) - An international scientific effort has revealed the genetics behind Asia's diversity.

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Migration and climate change: A new (under) class of travellers

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - By Addis Ababa, Lokichoggio - Jun. 29 (Special Report) - The International Organisation for Migration thinks there will be 200m climate-change migrants by 2050, when the world’s population is set to peak at 9 billion. Others put the total at 700m.

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U.S. Signals Willingness to Reopen Talks With Cuba

Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ginger Thompson - May. 23 (News Report) - In a new gesture toward Cuba, the Obama administration signaled willingness on Friday to reopen a channel with Havana that was closed under President George W. Bush by scheduling high-level meetings on migration between the two countries. The move comes as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to fend off pressure from her Latin American counterparts to take an even bolder step by endorsing a proposal that would reintegrate Cuba into the Organization of American States. The question of how far the new administration is willing to go toward engagement with Cuba carries fresh urgency two months after President Obama lifted restrictions on travel and remittances to Cuba for Cuban-Americans with relatives on the island.

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Blue whales returning to their former Alaska habitat: Marine Wildlife

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Mary Pemberton - May. 19 (News Report) - Blue whales are returning to Alaska waters in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say.

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Pakistan: Pashtun hospitality for 19 adults, 25 children, and four camels

Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Ben Arnoldy - May. 14 (Special Report) - Strangers are opening doors to strangers all across the Pakistani communities that lie in walking distance from Swat and Buner, easing the burden on the crowded official refugee camps. Residents say their hospitality traces back to an ancient Islamic practice known as muakhat, as well as pashtunwali, the ethnic code of behavior that in different circumstances has led some Pashtuns to shelter fleeing Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters.

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Pakistan flight resembles Darfur, U.N. official says

Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Mark Magnier, Zulfiqar Ali - May. 12 (News Report) - The plight of Pakistanis fleeing warfare in the Swat Valley echoes conditions in such hard-pressed regions as Darfur and Congo, a U.N. relief official said Monday, as thousands more displaced people poured out of the conflict area and strained humanitarian organizations. The government pressed its weeks-old military campaign against Taliban insurgents and said its troops had killed 700 militants in the last four days, a figure that could not be independently verified.

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Pakistan's displaced people

Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - May. 11 (Other) - People flee Pakistan's restive Swat valley after a curfew was temporarily lifted to allow people to leave the intensifying conflict

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Japan Pays Foreign Workers to Go Home, Forever

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Hiroko Tabuchi - Apr. 23 (Special Report) - The repatriation offer is part of a new drive to encourage Japan’s sizable pool of Latin American factory workers to leave the recession-wracked country.

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Australia slashes immigration as recession looms

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Mar. 17 (News Report) - Australia will cut its intake of migrants for the first time in a decade, the government said today, amid concern that skilled foreign workers could stoke resentment by taking jobs at a time of rising unemployment.

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A Global Retreat As Economies Dry Up

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Anthony Faiola - Mar. 05 (Special Report) - Singapore is an epicenter of what analysts call a new flow of reverse migration away from hard-hit, globalized economies, including Dubai and Britain, that were once beacons for foreign labor. Economists from Credit Suisse predict an exodus of 200,000 foreigners -- or one in every 15 workers here -- by the end of 2010.

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An orphaned Koranic prodigy finds his place in the world

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Sara Blask - Nov. 18 (Special Report) - In this teeming immigrant employment mecca, the struggle of a Pakistani child suddenly alone in the world might easily fall below the humanitarian radar.

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Ireland Transformed

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Alexandra Starr - Oct. 16 (Special Report) - Walloping economic growth made the so-called Celtic Tiger one of the richest countries on the continent and an immigration magnet.

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Germany: History's Long Shadow

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Alexandra Starr - Oct. 16 (Special Report) - ... just because there is a moral imperative to appear open to foreigners doesn't mean that Germans are genuinely comfortable with outsiders. Indeed, many Germans believe that ethnicity, rather than citizenship, culture, or a sense of allegiance, dictates whether someone is part of the deutsch community. The queasiness with diversity and vigorous political correctness coexist uneasily and can make for disjunctive state policies.

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Leaving America

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Oct. 13 (News Report) - THE economic slump has pushed immigration down the agenda during America's presidential-election campaign. It may also have helped to contribute to the first decline in the number of unauthorised immigrants since 2002. In March this year an estimated 11.9m people were thought to be living in America without papers, down from 12.4m in 2007, according to the Pew Hispanic Centre. Various factors are at play, including rising unemployment and stricter policing in America, and better economic conditions in home countries, especially Mexico, origin of nearly 60% of America's immigrants.

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Europe in Turmoil After Irish Vote

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Marc Champion, Charles Forelle - Jun. 14 (News Report) - The treaty calls for the EU to appoint its first president, create an EU diplomatic service under a single foreign-affairs chief, and win greater powers to legislate in areas such as immigration. Lisbon would also make it easier for the bloc, which has grown to 27 countries from 15 in 2003, to make decisions, by reducing the number of policy areas that require unanimity.

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Border union sues Chertoff over fence

Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Times - By Stephen Dinan - May. 17 (News Report) - Members of the Texas Border Coalition yesterday said Department of Homeland Security officials "lied" about reaching out to Texas landowners over the U.S.-Mexico border fence, and filed a class-action lawsuit against Secretary Michael Chertoff demanding he give landowners more say before the fence is built. Under the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, the group of border mayors, county judges and community leaders said the federal government violated the rights of landowners and intimidated them into signing away, for a $100 payment, rights to come on their land and prepare for building the fence. "What's being forced upon us is not the American way," Brownsville Mayor Pat M. Ahumada Jr. told reporters and editors at The Washington Times. "The fact that they hoodwinked the stakeholders into believing they had no choice but to give the government the right to access to the land for six months to do whatever they want was dishonest, disingenuous and I think illegal, and that's why we're filing the lawsuit," Mr. Ahumada said.

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