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Human migration is a matter of global concern. Flows of migrants and refugees influence and change the social, economic and political dynamics of their destinations -- and the places they have left behind. IPS covers crucial issues such as migrant and refugee rights, irregular or undocumented migration, human trafficking, remittances, displaced persons and forced labour. And the positive: in many cases migration creates a new dialogue among civilisations. Migrants themselves become the building blocks of bridges connecting different cultures.
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SOUTH SUDAN: Still Counting the Dead in Inter-Ethnic Conflict

Tue, 24/01/2012 - 00:52
In the ward of a partially destroyed clinic, Mangiro (who did not give his last name) sat on a bed next to his wounded nine-year-old daughter, Ngathin. The little girl is fortunate, she survived the recent inter-ethnic clashes in Pibor county that killed her mother and sisters.
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MEXICO: Even Educated Young Women Face Poor, Jobless Future

Tue, 17/01/2012 - 19:38
The year 2012 started off with little promise for workers in Mexico, with analysts projecting job losses and wages below subsistence levels.
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Haitian Diaspora Tests Brazil's International Solidarity

Thu, 12/01/2012 - 16:40
Brazil, for decades a source of migrants to the United States and Europe, is now facing its own humanitarian challenge: applying the international solidarity it trumpets to the Haitians who are arriving in the thousands, in search of a better life.
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KYRGYZSTAN: China Expanding Influence, One Student at a Time

Fri, 06/01/2012 - 17:22
Among its Central Asian neighbours, China these days is more often feared than loved. This attitude is perhaps most apparent in Kyrgyzstan, where despite an overwhelming dependence on Chinese imports, Chinese-owned malls and mining pits have been the subject of attacks in recent years; nationalist editorials in the local press play on fears of the Middle Kingdom.
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PORTUGAL: No Jobs? Just Emigrate!

Sun, 01/01/2012 - 11:03
Hounded by the economic crisis that shows no signs of letting up and by political leaders of all stripes, Portugal's conservative Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho sent out an unprecedented message to his fellow citizens: emigrate.
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Cubans Hope for Migration Reform

Mon, 26/12/2011 - 13:18
Whether or not they live in Cuba, whatever their political affiliation, most people consulted by IPS want changes to Cuban migration policy that include three key elements: freedom, rights and normalisation.
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False Perceptions Underpin Anti-Migrant Sentiments

Fri, 09/12/2011 - 15:37
The rising tide of anti-migrant sentiment worldwide is caused primarily by the biased, polarised and negative debate on migration, according to a new study released here.
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TAJIKISTAN: President Taking a Press Beating in Dushanbe

Mon, 05/12/2011 - 08:09
Following a diplomatic faux pas that enraged Russia, the knives seem to be out for Tajikistan's long-time president, Imomali Rahmon.
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ISRAEL: Eritreans Flee From Dictatorship to Detention

Mon, 05/12/2011 - 01:55
Standing across the street from the American embassy in Tel Aviv, more than 200 Eritrean asylum seekers chanted "Yes to justice! Yes to humanity!", and demanded international intervention to stop torture camps in the Egyptian Sinai. Protests by African asylum seekers in Israel are growing, in the face of increasingly tough policies by the Israelis.
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Workers Send More Money Home, Surpassing Development Aid

Mon, 05/12/2011 - 00:00
Despite a global economic crisis, worsening employment prospects for immigrants and hardening views on immigration in the U.S. and Europe, migrant workers are sending more money home, according to a World Bank report on global remittances released Wednesday.
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Andean Migrant Women Create Opportunities

Sun, 04/12/2011 - 07:19
Women make up a majority of migrants from South America's Andean region and they send more money home to their families than men, according to a study carried out in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
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US: Battered Bodies, Broken Families: Remembering Immigrant Women

Wed, 30/11/2011 - 09:18
Today marks the first of "16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence", a campaign launched in 1991 to insist that 'women's rights are human rights'.
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Q&A: The Finer Points of Rising Sea Levels

Tue, 22/11/2011 - 15:20
Long before the Pacific will rise to a level that will leave its estimated 30,000 islands submerged, most of them might be severely affected by frequent flooding and storms.
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ASIA-PACIFIC: Refugees of Climate Change Rising Steadily

Mon, 21/11/2011 - 22:29
Asian countries, home to about 60 percent of the world's population, will be hit hardest by changing weather patterns and a degrading environment, research indicates.
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U.S.: 2010 Saw Record Number of International Students

Sun, 20/11/2011 - 02:50
For the fifth consecutive year, the number of international students studying in the U.S. increased, hitting an all-time record high, according to a report released Monday by the Institute of International Education (IIE) at the start of International Education Week.
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Indonesian Migrants Facing Death Get Legal Aid from Home

Sat, 19/11/2011 - 13:40
With 221 Indonesian migrant workers facing death sentences in China, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, the government of Indonesia has approved a legal aid budget to assist these workers, who often do not have access to such assistance otherwise.
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TAJIKISTAN: Dushanbe's Plane Caper Not Flying with the Kremlin

Sat, 19/11/2011 - 13:11
Memo to leaders of Central Asian nations that lack abundant energy resources: messing with Moscow usually backfires.
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SRI LANKA: Alive or Beheaded this Maid is a Heroine

Sat, 19/11/2011 - 07:54
Will Rizana Fathima Nafeek return to this poverty-ridden coastal village in Sri Lanka alive and in one piece? Or will the beheading sentence passed on her by a Saudi Arabian court in 2007 be finally carried out?
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U.S.: Helping Immigrants Fight Wage Theft

Tue, 15/11/2011 - 13:53
For many immigrants living in the U.S., a good job can be hard to come by. For those who do find employment - generally in low-paying jobs – every paycheck counts. Which is why, when a paycheck is smaller than it should be – or when it doesn't show up at all – everything comes to a halt.
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OP-ED: Rwandan Refugees Fear Cessation Clause

Mon, 14/11/2011 - 02:57
They should be wary of each other. The historical conflict between their ethnicities has resulted in Africa's largest genocide.
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