Calais migrant crisis: UK and France to sign deal
Wednesday, 19 August 2015 13:54 UK and French ministers will meet in Calais on Thursday to agree a new deal to tackle the migrant crisis there.
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Men now outnumber women in Sweden for the first time thanks to mass migration
Wednesday, 19 August 2015 13:53 As Sweden continues to enjoy near unprecedented population growth, a particular demographic is growing quicker than others – men.
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Cuban migration to US rises amid historic thaw in relations
Wednesday, 19 August 2015 13:53 Fears grow that US will end ‘wet foot, dry foot’ policy granting legal status to Cubans who reach Florida shores.
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Europe needs to look at 'bigger picture' for migration
Wednesday, 19 August 2015 13:52 Thousands of migrants have died trying to reach European shores, and the EU is struggling to cope. As Martin Kuebler reports, some critics believe the answer lies in opening the borders, rather than further restrictions.
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Cameron refuses to deny young Britons may lose tax credits in migration row
Wednesday, 19 August 2015 13:51 David Cameron has refused to deny that he is considering plans to stop young Britons claiming in-work benefits – an idea that emerged when the government was told that a Tory manifesto pledge to apply such restrictions solely to EU migrants would be illegal.
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Royal Air Maroc to service flights to Brussels, Madrid, London, Marseille from Rabat
Wednesday, 12 August 2015 12:25 Rabat, Aug - Moroccan Air Company "Royal Air Maroc" announced it will start on Oct.26 new flights from Rabat to Brussels, Madrid, London and Marseille.
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European Union approves 2.4 billion euros funding for migration crisis
Tuesday, 11 August 2015 11:52 The European Commission on Monday approved 2.4 billion euros ($2.6 billion) of aid over six years for countries including Greece and Italy that have struggled to cope with a surge in numbers of immigrants.
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U.S. Support for Increased Immigration Up to 25%
Tuesday, 11 August 2015 11:51 These results come from Gallup's Minority Rights and Relations survey conducted June 15-July 10, which included an expanded sample of blacks and Hispanics. This practice is often referred to as "oversampling," and allows for a closer look at attitudes and opinions of minority groups whose representation in the sample of a standard poll might otherwise be too small for statistical analysis. In 2013, the last time a comparable methodology was used with respect to this question, U.S. adults reported largely similar attitudes. Gallup has also asked this question in several instances in polls that did not include an oversample of Hispanic and black adults, most recently in June 2014. The longer-term trends since 2001 are unmistakable: U.S. adults' support for increased immigration is gradually growing. In surveys conducted within a year of the 9/11 attacks, which were perpetrated by 19 individuals who immigrated into the country, near-majorities or outright majorities of U.S. adults said immigration levels should be decreased. But as the 2000s came to a close and the current decade has unfolded, support for decreasing immigration has gradually fallen, hitting one of its lowest levels this year. As the country has slowly shifted away from this position, the percentage saying immigration levels should increase has doubled -- from 12% in June 2002 to 25% today.Preferences for changes in immigration levels vary considerably by the respondents' race or ethnicity. Hispanics -- half of whom say they are immigrants themselves -- are most likely to say immigration levels should be increased (36%), while non-Hispanic whites offer…
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Fears immigration decline will stunt Australia's economic growth
Tuesday, 11 August 2015 11:51 International travel figures released at the same time as the Reserve Bank of Australia's quarterly monetary policy report on Friday support its suspicion that the economy's potential growth has been cut by slower population growth.
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U.K. immigration crackdown could hit 6,000 Canadian students
Tuesday, 11 August 2015 11:51 Kimberley Hirschy has been dreaming of living in London since she was eight.
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Greece Calls for Collaboration from the EU in Immigration Crisis
Tuesday, 11 August 2015 11:50 The Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, called today for the cooperation of all members of the European Union (EU) to address the growing migration crisis, chairing in an emergency meeting of his government on the issue.
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US accused of poorly treating women and children in immigration detention centres
Tuesday, 11 August 2015 11:50 Maer Torrescano, 6, rests with her father Havacuc, 24, from the state of Morelos, Mexico, at the US Border Patrol detention center in Nogales, Arizona, on May 31, 2006.
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Germany hits new immigration record amid rising tensions
Tuesday, 04 August 2015 13:36 Germany took in a record number of immigrants last year amid growing tensions over the changing face of the nation, official statistics released Monday showed.
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RPT-Calais crisis hardens tone of Britain's immigration, EU debate
Tuesday, 04 August 2015 13:35 Dramatic images of migrants storming the Channel Tunnel from France have prompted Prime Minister David Cameron's government to ramp up anti-immigration rhetoric and spurred Eurosceptics to amplify calls for Britain to quit the European Union.
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Families of refused asylum seekers to be stripped of automatic right to financial support
Tuesday, 04 August 2015 13:35 Home Office ministers to adopt more hardline approach to those who have exhausted appeal rights, to demonstrate that UK is not ‘land of milk and honey’.
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Illegal immigrants to UK face eviction without court order under new laws
Tuesday, 04 August 2015 13:34 Immigrants living in Britain illegally will face abrupt eviction from rental properties under new laws designed to make Britain a tougher place to live in, the government will announce as it redoubles its response to the Calais migrant crisis.
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US: Law clinic students inspired to help immigrant families being held in detention
Tuesday, 04 August 2015 13:34 The situation in the family immigration detention centers near the U.S.-Mexico border may be changing quickly following a federal court order, but the underlying issues inspiring some University of Wisconsin Law School students to volunteer to help the people being held there are unlikely to be resolved any time soon.
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UK to target migrants' landlords as more attempt entry
Tuesday, 04 August 2015 13:32 Britain has announced new measures to tackle illegal migrants by forcing landlords to evict them, as a growing number of migrants in Calais continued their attempts to enter the UK via the undersea cross-channel Eurotunnel.
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Creative young Brits are quitting London for affordable Berlin
Tuesday, 04 August 2015 13:31 The building that houses Agora, tucked away in a small side-street in residential Neukölln, in an old lock-making factory, is easy to ignore.
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Migration: the Mediterranean flow continues for Italy and Spain
Tuesday, 28 July 2015 13:27 While debate about how to accommodate them rages in the north of Europe, a steady stream of migrants continues to arrive on the shores of the south.
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- Agadir: seminar on "the contribution of Moroccans to local development'
- Tangiers: A collective exhibition celebrates the 60th anniversary of the labour agreement between Morocco and Belgium.
- Moussem Belgica - Histoires Transnationales celebrates 60 years of migration in Belgium
- Rabat: The 6th edition of the "Festival Littératures itinérantes" on the theme of "Literature and Memory"
- Opening of the 4th International Conference on INNOVATION & HUMAN CAPITAL IN HEALTH in Rabat