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Observatorio Permanente Andaluz de las Migraciones (OPAM)

Date: 07/02/2013 - 09:50
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Making migration work for development

Date: 14/12/2012 - 17:08

This week, SOLIDAR launched the briefing “Making Migration Work for Development –Recommendations for Decent Work, Social Protection and Inclusive Development for Migrants”. Its conclusions are clear: For a truly rights-based approach to migration, we need strong provisions for social protection, the safeguarding of fundamental rights, access to health care, upward social mobility and access to lifelong learning for all members of society. It is about human beings and human rights.

Crossing into the unknown

Date: 23/11/2012 - 09:52

IRIN has launched a new In-Depth on migration - Crossing into the Unknown - exploring the changing dynamics of modern migration.

Reverse brain drain: Economic shifts lure migrants home

Date: 22/10/2012 - 14:43

The tide of brain drain – from developing countries to industrialized nations – has turned. Human capital is returning home to Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Africa, while some European professionals squeezed by the recession, turn toward developing countries for advancement.

ODYSSEIA: New audio magazine launched by the Radio 1812 team!

Date: 14/11/2012 - 16:05

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This pilot edition focuses on the routes migrants take and the difficulties and challenges they face when moving from one country to another. With reports on Mexico and Morocco and a feature interview with Ska Keller, member of the European Parliament for the Greens, our reporters Nina Haase, Jenni Roth and Ruth Reichstein worked hard to make this first edition worth listening to.

The script for this edition is attached.

Morocco, Honduras, Mexico

Économie: l’immigration commence à reprendre

Date: 09/07/2012 - 09:00

En repli pour la troisième année consécutive en 2010, les flux migratoires internationaux sont repartis à la hausse en 2011, selon un nouveau rapport de l’OCDE.

Les Perspectives des migrations internationales 2012 montrent que l’immigration permanente à destination des pays de l’OCDE a connu une baisse de 2,5% en 2010 par rapport à l’année précédente, avec 4.1 millions de personnes concernées.

International migration starting to rebound, says OECD

Date: 29/06/2012 - 12:50

International migration fell for the third consecutive year in 2010 but started picking up again in 2011, according to a new OECD report.

The 2012 International Migration Outlook says that permanent migration into OECD countries fell by about 2.5% in 2010 from the previous year, to 4.1 million people.

Asia to face ‘increased migration’

Date: 27/06/2012 - 15:30

Asia should prepare for a dramatic change in international migration trends due to the worsening debt crisis in Europe, according to the Secretary-General of the Geneva-based International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC).

There is already a reverse trend of migration from Europe to Latin America, Johan Ketelers said, adding that he predicts high-tech talent may also  look for job opportunities in developing Asian countries such as China and India.

Migration as Ecology: How Culture Evolves

Date: 25/06/2012 - 07:59

The immigration debate in the United States often centers narrowly around people who cross a border, and their social impacts on the “destination” country. But what if we viewed migration as a social phenomenon, or as a natural process? An ecological viewpoint can open a new frame for exploring the immigrant experience as a continual cultural and demographic transformation. This month, advocates at the Rio +20earth summit took up the issue of migration as a form of ecology.

Central Asia's Migrant Headache

Date: 22/06/2012 - 08:50

Russia, one of the world’s main recipients of migrant labor, is a major destination country for migrant workers from Central Asia. Remittances from Russia are especially critical to the economies of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan,1accounting in Tajikistan’s case for nearly half of the country’s GDP. But as the 2008 financial crisis revealed, labor migration has become an unreliable political and economic crutch for these states.

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