Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Immigration'
UK Immigration Control: Children in Extreme Distress
by Sarah Campbell, Open Democracy, UK - Alarming numbers of parents are being separated from their children indefinitely in the UK for the purposes of immigration control. It is difficult to imagine any other situation where children could have such...
Migrant Workers Shooting in Greece Sets Off #BloodStrawberries Boycott
by Jasmina Babic, Global Voices, Greece - Supervisors shot and injured dozens of undocumented migrant workers from Bangladesh in the strawberry farms of southwestern Nea Manolada for demanding months of owed wages, the latest incident in a country where antipathy...
Barbie Chihuahua: New Mexican ‘Dolls Of The World’ Barbie Carries Passport, Sparks Outrage
by Jill Heller, International Business Times, USA - A new Mexican Barbie in Mattel’s “Dolls of the World” series, which was launched to appeal to a more “diverse generation” of customers and boasts a number of dolls from Latin America,...
Budapest, the Cultural Wasteground
by Agnes Szabó, Der Freitag, Germany - He who swaps his homeland, swaps his soul, they say in Hungary. Still, in the last two and a half years, more than half a million Hungarians have left the country and spread...
The Fragility of Trust: Neo-Nazi Victims Seek Peace with Germany
by Beate Lakotta, Der Spiegel, Germany - Semiya Simsek's family was torn apart 13 years ago when her father was murdered in Nuremberg by a neo-Nazi terror cell. Even worse, German authorities for years suspected the family had been involved....
German Schools Struggle with Wave of Immigrants
by Katja Irle, Der Spiegel, Germany - Germany is experiencing a well-documented boom in immigrants from countries hard-hit by the euro crisis. Less visible, however, are their children. They rarely have any knowledge of German, and schools are struggling to...
Human Trafficking Networks Flourish in Yemen
by Rebecca Murray, Al Jazeera, Qatar - UN figures indicate a "significant increase" in people smuggling and the violence that accompanies the illicit trade....
Britain Shames Itself by Detaining Immigrants Indefinitely
by Ellie Mae O'Hagan, Guardian, UK - Like every former detainee I met at Detention Action, Jay was at the wrong end of the single most controversial element of UK immigration law: the fact that the government imposes no time...
Balancing the GOP Tripwire on Immigration
by Myriam Marquez, Miami Herald, USA - The face of the Republican Party may be white and the hair graying, but the number of young, dynamic Hispanic leaders on display at the GOP convention is telling. Are they “window dressing,”...
Up in Arms over Comedy
by Huma Yusuf, Dawn, Pakistan - Shows like Citizen Khan are essential in multicultural societies and help put all communities on an equal footing — if everyone can have a laugh at everyone else’s expense, then no one can claim...
Arab Diaspora a Business Opportunity
by Nada Akl, Common Ground News, USA - For immigrants in the Arab diaspora – those who have left Arab countries for the West or other regions – the tension between trying to stay connected to one’s homeland and trying...
Everything You've Heard about Failing Schools Is Wrong
by Kristina Rizga, Mother Jones, USA - Attendance: up. Dropout rates: plummeting. College acceptance: through the roof. My mind-blowing year inside a "low-performing" school....
‘Who Gains from Immigrants Being Unable to Speak Swedish?’
by Kajsa Ekis Ekman, The Local, Sweden - How much Swedish does the working class need to be able to speak? Enough to manage a menial job, it would seem. Anything above this – to write, to understand the news,...
UK and Afghan Endgame
by Huma Yusuf, Dawn, Pakistan - As the deadline for Isaf troop withdrawal approaches, Britain is increasingly aware that it has much more at stake in a peaceful resolution to the Afghan conflict than the United States, and that London’s...
Between East and West, a Gulf of Stereotypes
by Rasa Navickaité, IQ, Lithuania - The far right’s hatred for immigrants who do not respect Western values has switched target. After September 11, Islam and Muslims became the scapegoats for all the ills of society; today, it’s the eastern...
The Nigerian Connection
by Juliana Ruhfus, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Every year tens of thousands of West Africans migrate to Europe in search of a better life. But for some of them that search will end in tragedy, as they fall victim to...
For Many Indians, the Land of Opportunity Is the Land They’re Going back To
by Stephanie Nolen, Globe & Mail, Canada - Canada has traditionally competed for India’s skilled migrants with Australia, Britain and the United States. But now there’s a new country in the mix, a destination with increasing appeal for young, educated...
Undocumented Mothers Have Dreams, Too
by Angy Rivera, Mónica Novoa, Colorlines, USA - My mother and I landed in New York on August 29, 1993, a week before my third birthday. She didn’t know that starting this day, we would become undocumented. For years I...
May Day Special: “No Work, No Shopping, Occupy Everywhere"
by Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!, USA - “People all over the country are talking about May Day as our day, whether you want to call it 'workers’ holiday' or 'immigrant rights' or 'the 99 percent,'’ says Martina Sitrin, who notes...
Work in Germany – a Nightmare for Bulgarians
by Katharina Iskandar, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany - With the promise of jobs and income, more and more Bulgarians are being lured to Germany. There, however, they run into race-to-the-bottom wages and illegal accommodation. Frankfurt has become the centre of...
European Refugees Meet Austerity-Era Hostility
by Claudia Ciobanu, IPS, Italy - As the economic slump drags on in Europe, refugees and immigrants are keeping a wary eye on state budgets, as governments in the throes of austerity slash the social protections and public services that...
Indignado Generation Finds Happiness Abroad
by Aleksandra Lipczak, Polityka, Poland - Thousands of young people, often educated, are leaving Portugal and Spain. Europe doesn’t need them while Africa and South America receive them with open arms....
Anonymous Applications Help Immigrants and Women
by Renuka Rayasam, Der Spiegel, Germany - Job seekers in Germany still list their birthday, gender and family status, even attaching a picture to their applications. But newly released results of a project to make German job applications anonymous show...
Emigration – a Beautiful Mirage
by Patrícia Carvalho, Público, Portugal - Along with a lost generation of young people in low-paid and insecure jobs, the crisis is now pushing couples with families to seek work elsewhere in Europe. Unfortunately, arriving in foreign countries ill-prepared, not...
Central Asian Women's Shattered 'Russian Dreams'
by Farangis Najibullah, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - Even as financial necessity amid an extended economic crisis is breaking Central Asian cultural and religious taboos that traditionally deterred women from going to Russia for work on their own, they...
Come South, Young Man, but Here Be Dragons
by Madhumita Dutta, The Hindu, India - The interstate migrant is a much-reviled figure, often unjustly so. Ghettoised and insecure, and lacking any legal or social protection, the interstate migrant workers become easy targets for the state, administration, overzealous nationalist...
Anti-Immigrant Laws in Mississippi
by Ingrid Cruz, United We Dream, USA - The wave of anti-immigrant laws is sweeping through the South, and Mississippi is now next on the list of states that are attempting to pass draconian bills...
Those Who Die to Keep Us Safe: European Union’s Frontex and the Administration of Immigrants
by Flavia Dzodan, Tiger Beatdown, USA - Frontex exists to “protect” us. Their motto is “Libertas, Securitas, Justitia” (Freedom, Safety, Justice) And under that pretense, the agency allows deaths like those of Samba M. to happen. For me, for my...
The Politics of Immigrant Scapegoating: Not Just an American Pastime
by Michelle Chen, Colorlines, USA - Around the world, as long as people keep moving, politicians will continue to talk breathlessly about the immigration “crisis.” It’s a campaign trail standard in the U.S., but in Britain and Western Europe as...
Armored Gun Boats on the Rio Grande
by Melissa del Bosque, Texas Observer, USA - It used to be that the mission of law enforcement was to prevent and solve crimes. The military's mission was to fight the foreign enemy on the battlefield. But now the two...
Creativity Blossoms in the Great Migration
by Lily Yeh, Yes!, USA - On the industrial outskirts of Beijing, the transient children of the world’s largest migration taught artist Lily Yeh about finding healing and rootedness in creative power....
Fleeing Greeks Bank on New Australian Gold Rush
by Helena Smith, The Guardian, UK - For several months a stream of mostly young men and women, fresh off the plane from Greece, has been knocking at the doors of a large building on Lonsdale Street in the heart...
Italy Killings Underscore European Extremism Problem
by Annette Langer, Der Spiegel, Germany - The murders of African street vendors by a right-wing extremist writer in Florence have shocked Italy. Questions are now emerging about whether the gunman acted alone. But one thing seems certain, he was...
French Government Hardens Immigration Stance as Elections Loom
by Ségolène Allemandou, France 24, France - France’s ruling UMP party is toughening its stance on immigration ahead of next year’s elections. By straying into the territory of the far right National Front, French Interior Minister Claude Gueant is playing...
Would Gingrich’s Immigration Policies Be more Humane?
by Melissa Harris-Perry, Rachel Maddow Show, USA - Thanksgiving is unique in that it quite literally celebrates undocumented immigration!...
Neo-Nazis – Just Another Ossi Story?
by Jana Hensel, Der Freitag, Germany - I can’t not shake the feeling that little more than a very thin line in my CV separates me from the three violent neo-Nazis. They’re about my age. And life in eastern Germany...
Europe: Far-Right Extremism on the Rise
by Kudashkina Ekaterina, Voice of Russia, Russia - Interview with Jonathan Birdwell, senior researcher on violence and extremism program at DEMOS, which is a UK Think Tank focusing on power and politics....
Children of Immigrants Hit an Economic Ceiling
By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times, USA - Even the well-educated find it tough to earn middle-class wages, and some end up in the farm fields where their parents toiled to give them better lives....
'Guest Workers' Relive Their Journey to Germany
by Yasemin Ergin, Der Spiegel, Germany - Some 50 years after Germany and Turkey signed a labor agreement, a group of 35 so-called Turkish 'guest workers' embarked on an anniversary train trip to relive their original journey. Following her father's...
Spain: Detained Immigrants "Are Treated Like Criminals"
by Inés Benítez, IPS, Italy - "The very fact of locking someone up for having emigrated is unacceptable."...
Muslims Fight Back Against Russian Nationalists
by Ekaterina Lushnikova, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - The Movement Against Illegal Immigration is just one of many nationalist organizations in Russia that spreads hatred toward minorities. In the region of Kirov, a secretive group called the Black Hawks...
Searching for Accountability in EU Migration-Management Practices
by Polly Pallister-Wilkins, OpenDemocracy, UK - The uprisings in North Africa, the subsequent increase in migrants crossing the Mediterranean and the cataclysmic predictions about an end to the Schengen acquis has highlighted a hitherto under-investigated policy practice of the EU:...
Why Are Israelis Moving to Germany?
by Adi Hagin, Haaretz, Israel - Thousands of Israelis, among them many artists, have chosen to live in Berlin because of its relaxed atmosphere and relatively low cost of living, even if it means living in a country with a...
Lebanon: Empowering Migrant Workers With Language
by Thalia Rahme, Global Voices, The Netherlands - A community of enthusiastic young people in Beirut, The Migrant Workers Task Force, are working to support foreign domestic workers in Lebanon whose living and working conditions are often desperately unfair....
Waiting for Mercy: The Case Against Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain
by Ellie Bernstein, Link TV, USA - Tells the story of an FBI sting operation that took place in Albany, New York during the winter, spring and summer of 2004. The complex operation was designed to entrap Yassin Aref, 37...
Getting Real on Immigration
by Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Hudson Institute, USA - Immigration reform, however divisive, is crucial to economic growth. Making it easier to get lawful entry helps the economy. Today, entering the country legally, whether as a tourist, student, entrepreneur, or worker is...
DSK: A Trial of the Accuser, not the Accused
by Hadley Freeman, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - Maybe one day, in the pitiless light of hindsight, it will become clear why a woman's false statements about her immigration status, made years ago, were deemed more pertinent to an...
Leaving Tunisia
by Alexandra Deniau and Francois Renaut, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Despite the recent revolution, thousands of Tunisians are risking their lives in search of a new life in Europe....
Berlin's Drive to Recruit Foreign Workers Proves Unpopular
by Jutta Wasserrab, Deutsche Welle, Germany - The economic crisis has cost many skilled workers in nations like Greece or Spain their jobs. Some of them now want to try their luck in Germany. That makes labor experts happy, but...
Violence Against Migrant Women Won’t End After DSK Case
by Michelle Chen, Colorlines, USA - Globalization breeds the impunity that enables violence against women. In countries that rely on imported labor—say, the United States—migrant women work in a shadow economy and live outside the law....
African Women in Europe Victims of Human Trafficking
by Beatrice Mariotti, InDepthNews, Germany - As European countries strive to find a solution to Lampedusa that has come to symbolize much disdained African migration to Europe, little attention is being paid to African women and children in Europe, who...
Entry Denied: Revolution in North Africa and the Continued Centrality of Migration to European Responses
by Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Jadaliyya, USA - In fact you could, and I would, argue that the recent revolutions in Tunisia and Libya and the subsequent threat of migrants “flooding” Europe are being used by the European Union as a neat...
Go West, Young Ma: A View on Chinese Immigrants in Africa
by Sarah M. Brooks, Consultancy Africa Intelligence, South Africa - The small-scale Chinese entrepreneurs who have followed - and occasionally preceded - the SOEs have also been criticised for their increasing presence in all corners of the continent. Instead of...
Europe: The Need to Overcome Xenophobia
by Emma Bonino, Deccan Chronicle, India - Diversity is now considered a threat. The signs are plain to see: a propagation of intolerance and fanaticism, growing support for populist and xenophobic parties, an ever more massive presence of immigrants without...
Germany and Austria Open their Doors – At Last
by Michaela Terenzani-Stanková, The Slovak Spectator, Slovakia - Reactions in Austria and Germany to the new freedoms have been mixed: some worry that workers from the east will flood their labour markets; while others rejoice, saying that Austria and Germany...
67 Sueños Shows Love for an Undocumented Majority
by Jamilah King, Colorlines, USA - Over at New America Media’s Youth Outlook, Josue Rojas and Ann Bassette bring us the tale of 67 Sueños, a youth-led collective based in Oakland that strives to tell the stories of everyday young...
Integration Worries Threaten to Upend Cultural Harmony in Marseille
by Julia Amalia Heyer, Der Spiegel, Germany - For decades, the southern French port city of Marseille has been a model of successful integration. But with the debate over immigration now flaring up around France, the era of harmony could...
Denmark: Controversial Law Re-Introduces Border Control
by Maria Grabowski, Global Voices, Netherlands - Denmark has developed extremely tight anti-immigration laws within the last ten years and this increasing far-right discourse seem to have spread across the EU - to Italy, France and the Netherlands....
Young Muslim Mona Bayoum Fights for Asylum Seekers
by Clare Hutchinson, WalesOnline, UK - Mona Bayoumi is one of Wales’ only Muslim woman barristers and specialises in employment and public law. She spoke to Clare Hutchinson about burkas, political point-scoring and what the Arab uprisings mean to her...
No Work, No Home
by Nausicaa Marbe, De Volkskrant, Netherlands - Why should a country not have the right to reinforce its legislation on economic immigration?...
Sarkozy and Berlusconi Are Prisoners of a Resurgent Right Wing
by Agnès Poirier, The Independent, UK - Since Tunisia's Jasmine revolution in December, Italy has seen 25,000 Tunisians arriving on its shore, all looking for a job. Unable to stem the tide, the Berlusconi administration has found a simple way...
Israeli Town Rallies Against African Refugees
by Maya Guarnieri, Al Jazeera, Qatar - The shift is most obvious, perhaps, in Eilat, the small city in the south where Anei and several thousand African asylum seekers live. Here, refugees find their children barred from municipal schools. And...
Integration in the UK : Why the Silence?
by Sarah Spencer, OpenDemocracy, UK - Well founded suspicion of ‘integration’ policies in civil society has let government off the hook, leaving a vacuum in national policy towards those arriving to live in the UK and public debate open to...
Expatriates Await Deportation in Squalor
by Bassma Al Jandaly, Gulf News, UAE - A tiny, filthy, badly ventilated room with dirty mattresses on the floor is the last place those infected with contagious diseases will see before they are deported. Rubbish litters the small room,...
Return of a Nation's Gilded Youth
by Elitza Dimova, Presseurop, France - The brain drain is a serious issue for Bulgarians. But not all of the country’s young people leave for good. Those who have opted to return home after studies abroad have even created an...
Multiculturalism's Failure Allows Europe to Display Courage
by Paulina Neuding, Daily Star, Lebanon - State-sponsored multiculturalism has failed. That proclamation by British Prime Minister David Cameron, following hard on the heels of similar renunciations of multiculturalism by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, suggests...
Victim versus Victim
by Rafia Zakaria, Dawn, Pakistan - Hardworking migrants, many of whom have spent generations working in Bahrain, are put in the impossible situation where the realisation of their rights automatically comes at the expense of granting rights to indigenous Bahrainis...
'Non-National' Tells of Struggle to Pay College Fees
by Grainne Cunningham, Irish Independent, Ireland - Her parents are Irish citizens and she has lived here for over 10 years. But Cate Gatharia is deemed to be a "non-national" and therefore is forced to pay crippling college fees....
Finding Help, Hate and Hope on Lampedusa
by Katharina Peters, Spiegel, Germany - As the tiny Mediterranean island of Lampedusa struggles with another influx of refugees, its inhabitants are torn about how they should respond. While some only see problems for their safety and livelihood, others are...
Is Domestic Violence Cause for US to Grant Asylum?
by Amy Lieberman, Christian Science Monitor, USA - Emerging federal policy allows asylum-seekers to request US sanctuary on grounds they are fleeing domestic violence. Humane, or an immigration floodgate?...
Love the Convert
by Tamar Rotem, Ha'aretz, Israel - Alina and Maxim are confronting the rabbinic authorities in court, in the hope that no other converted couple will go through the bitter experience they had....
Greece to Fence Turkish Border to Stem Illegal Entry
by Katharyn Gillam, France 24, France - Greece's immigration minister on Monday defended plans to block a portion of Greece's border with Turkey to halt illegal immigration into the European Union. The UN refugee agency has urged Greece to ensure...
Deportation Crunch for Zimbabwe Workers
by Melanie Peters and Thabiso Thakali, IOL, South Africa - With just 12 days to go desperate Zimbabweans are battling to get their papers in order ahead of the December 31 deadline, or face deportation...
Wings, Prayers and Refugees
by Liat Collins, Jerusalem Post, Israel - For Ethiopian Jews, arriving in the country is only the start of a long journey, as any immigrant can attest....
France: Outsiders in Their Own Country
by Hélène Frade, France 24, France - My goal is to understand why these two communities have now found themselves not only associated with the problems of insecurity and delinquency, but also associated with each other....
Patriarchal Violence or Uncontrolled Immigration?
by Kristin Engh Førde, Kilden, Norway - Is forced marriage an immigration problem or violence against women and children? The Norwegian authorities have not totally made up their minds....
The New Berliners
by Julia Lipkins, The Local, Germany - 20 years after reunification, the German capital has become an increasingly attractive destination for foreigners hoping to start a new life....
Name Honour Killings to Stop the Violence
by Richelle Wiseman, Calgary Herald, Canada - We have to single out cultural practices which violate women's right to equality, without condemning entire cultural groups....
'This Is My Country'
by Nurit Wurgaft, Haaretz, Israel - As the school year begins, children of foreign workers express their own views - often colored by anxiety - about the success of recent demonstrations against their expulsion....
France Pushes Europe back 50 Years
by Alia Papageorgiou, New Europe, Belgium - According to the Council of Europe the Roma population – whether citizens, displaced persons or migrants – is worse off than any other group in Europe when it comes to education, health, employment,...
Coping with Job Rejections as a Foreigner
by Monika Dittrich, Deutsche Welle, Germany - German companies and ministries are testing new ways of screening job applications to prevent immigrants and other minorities from being discriminated against....
Grandfather at the Centre of Roma Debate Dividing France
by Harriet Alexander, Telegraph, UK - Pensioner René Galinier has become the face of a fierce debate in France over their Roma community and the limits of liberté, égalité and fraternité....
A Better Life That Has Been Anything But
by Tahira Yaqoob, The National, UAE - Safe houses in Abu Dhabi and Dubai have become home to more than 300 Filipina women whose dreams of riches and career turned sour upon their arrival in the UAE....
France's Roma Crackdown Could Spark Xenophobia
by Lizzy Davies, Guardian, UK - Former ambassador issues warning as Nicolas Sarkozy's government prepares its first 'removal flights' to send illegal Roma to Bucharest....
Inside the Brutal World of America's Kidnapping Capital
by Monica Alonzo, Phoenix New Times, USA - Phoenix is labeled the kidnapping capital of the United States because of people- and drug-smuggling out of Mexico. It's a catchphrase that politicians like U.S. Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona use...
Sarkozy Faces Backlash over Roma Expulsions
by Honor Mahony, EU Observer, Belgium - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's drive to expel illegal Roma from the country has provoked criticism from the Roma themselves and a backlash from within the ranks of his own centre-right party....
The U.S.-Mexico Border Is Safer Than You Think
by Elena Shore, New America Media, USA - An FBI report obtained by the Associated Press found that the four big U.S. cities with the lowest rates of violent crime are all along the border: San Diego, Phoenix, El Paso...
Hirsi Ali Urges Refugee Testing
by Rebecca Weisser, The Australian, Australia - Ayaan Hirsi Ali has called for a radical change in the way refugees should be assessed....
UK: Worry in Curry Houses About New Immigration Rules
by Alice Ritchie, AFP, France - But the industry still relies on foreign cooks, largely from Bangladesh -- and it is warning that a cap on non-European Union immigration introduced on July 19 by Britain's new coalition government has put...
Democrats Look to Conservative Evangelicals on Immigration
by Sarah Posner, Religion Dispatches, USA - On matters of faith, why do the Democrats opt for evangelicals over their progressive allies?...
Why Is the Arizona Immigration Law A 'Women's Issue?'
by Amie Newman, RH Reality Check, USA - Immigrant women are the ones who make health care and child care decisions in their families – this law is cutting off communities at the knees....
Uganda: The Silent Practice of Deportations
by Bernadette Iyodu, Pambazuka, Kenya - Deportations to and from Uganda encompass a largely unreported world of human rights abuses....
Anger Builds over Arizona Law
by Angela Stoutenburgh, Socialist Worker, USA - This legalized bigotry is prompting a groundswell of protests across the state and the country in defense of immigrant rights....
Caritas Safe House Fights for Rights of Migrant Workers
by Evita Mouawad, Daily Star, Lebanon - In December, a landmark for migrant workers’ rights in Lebanon was achieved when Filipino worker Jonalin Malibago won her case against her employer, who physically abused her for years, and who was later...
Arizona at Epicentre of Divisive U.S. Immigration Debate
by Valeria Fernández, IPS, Italy - Protests and acts of civil disobedience are taking place in the southwest U.S. state of Arizona as it becomes the main battleground in a divisive struggle over illegal immigration....
Refugee Processing Freeze Breaches International Law
by Jane McAdam and Kerry Murphy, The Australian, Australia - Mental health experts have extensively documented the long-lasting effects of indefinite detention and temporary protection visas. Suspending processing is a variation on this theme....
No Place Like Home: Iraq’s Refugee Crisis Threatens the Future of Iraq
by Rachel Schneller, The Jamestown Foundation, USA - The massive upheaval of Iraq’s population that has occurred since 2006 threatens the long-term stability of the country, regardless of short-term gains achieved through the political process or military surges....
EU Court Thwarts Dutch Immigration Policy
by Marjolein van de Water, NRC Handelsblad, Netherlands - The European Court of Justice has upended the minimum income requirement for foreign marriage partners. More aspects of Dutch immigration policy could be at odds with European law....
And We Still Call Ourselves Buddhists?
by Sanitsuda Ekachai, Bangkok Post, Thailand - The first Makha Bucha occurred on the full-moon day of the third lunar month, nine months after the Buddha's enlightenment. This year, it falls on Feb 28, the day when the government ends...
Churches Ease Immigrant Fears in Wake of New Arizona Law
by Valeria Fernández, New America Media, USA - In a small meeting room at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, dozens of people listened eagerly one day recently as facilitator Vel Piña told them in Spanish, “You don’t have to answer...
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