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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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Deporting Gandhi from Palestine

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jamal Dajani - Apr. 16 (Opinion) - The Israeli government's recent announcement of Army order No. 1,650 was just the latest act of provocation in a series of calculated measures to derail any possible resumption of peace negotiations.

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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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Peter Watts may serve two years for failing to promptly obey a customs officer

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Boing Boing - By Cory Doctorow - Mar. 21 (Opinion) - David Nickle, a mutual friend who worked with Peter on his defense, has a very good post on the subject, including a quote from one of the jurors: The job of the jury was to decide whether Mr. Watts "obstructed/resisted" the custom officials. Assault was not one of the charges. What it boiled down to was Mr. Watts did not follow the instructions of the customs agents. Period. He was not violent, he was not intimidating, he was not stopping them from searching his car. He did, however, refuse to follow the commands by his non compliance. He?s not a bad man by any stretch of the imagination. The customs agents escalted the situation with sarcasm and miscommunication. Unfortunately, we were not asked to convict those agents with a crime, although, ...

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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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Climate Migration Will Affect the World’s Security

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Michael Werz, Kari Manlove - Dec. 10 (Special Report) - Fast forward to the year 2050. The world’s population will be up to 9 billion people according to the United Nations—an increase of one-third. More than 90 percent of this growth will take place in developing countries. Estimates also predict that 200 million people will be newly mobilized as climate migrants by 2050 due to global warming’s effects. This increased migration will very likely affect global security, which makes it imperative for the United States and other nations to begin formulating responses to climate migration now.

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What is statelessness?

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Worldfocus - Jul. 17 (Special Report) - Statelessness could mean you are trapped in the country you were born — with no birth certificate, no passport and no right to vote. You many not be able to own land ownership, access to health care and legal employment. Twelve to 15 million people live in limbo without the benefits of nationality.

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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's Humanitarian Crisis

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

Council on Foreign Relations - By Jayshree Bajoria - May. 14 (Interview) - Pakistan's aggressive military campaign against the Taliban in response to the country's growing militant threat has led hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee their homes in the Swat, Buner, and Lower Dir districts of the North West Frontier Province. The humanitarian community is calling this the largest migration of civilians in the region since the 1947 partition of India that led to the formation of Pakistan. Michael Young, Pakistan representative of the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian relief organization, says the situation is deteriorating, with projections of 1.8 million displaced, a number that could significantly rise if the fighting widens or intensifies. Young warns that the displaced populations could themselves become a source of unrest, noting the possible presence of militants within the displaced. "There is inevitably going to be some militant presence or families linked to militants," he says.

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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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People are fleeing Taliban-stricken NW Pakistan en masse

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

shortformblog.com - By Ernie Smith - May. 11 (Comment) - 350,000 civilians have left the war zone in the last 12 days alone, 900,000 overall

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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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Sunni Arab Refugees from Iraq Not Returning

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Informed Comment - By Juan Cole - Mar. 26 (Opinion) - Many are traumatized, having seen horrific violence against neighbors, friends or family members. One fourth of the families applying for refugee aid reported having had a child kidnapped. Many have been personally threatened by militias who still control their old neighborhood. Sometimes the militias track them down in East Amman and threaten them again. Iraqi Sunnis do not feel safe returning to districts that are now largely Shiite. Mixed families feel that they no longer have a place to live safely. Most refugees have had their property confiscated. Many former Sunni neighborhoods in Baghdad are now ghost towns.

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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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