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Germany's Berlin Wall fell over a decade ago, but numerous other Berlin Walls enslave millions across the world in the form of prohibitive emigration policies. While cognizance is high with regard to human rights abuses such as censorship and religious persecution, awareness of state enslavement is relatively low. This is a significant deficit since prohibition of emigration strikes to the foundation of human rights: self-ownership. It is the purpose of FreeEmigration.com to highlight regimes with prohibitive emigration policies, promote the principle of self-ownership central to human rights, and contribute to the abolition of state enslavement.
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07/29/2010 12:16 PM
Time to Temper the Faith: Comparing the Migration and Development Experiences of Mexico and Morocco With about 10 percent of Moroccan and Mexican citizens living abroad, remittances have become a vital source of income and poverty alleviation for both countries. Hein de Haas and Simona Vezzoli of the International Migration Institute, University of Oxford explore how migration has affected development and ways to reframe the migration-development debate. |
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07/22/2010 12:16 PM
Taiwanese Immigrants in the United States Over three-quarters of Taiwanese immigrants own their home, and almost as many hold a bachelor's degree or higher. MPI's Serena Yi-Ying Lin examines the population's size, geographic distribution, and socioeconomic characteristics. |
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07/15/2010 12:16 PM
Focus Remains on Arizona as Justice Department Files Lawsuit against SB 1070 MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron report on the Justice Department's suit against Arizona's newest immigration law and the Supreme Court's decision to hear a case challenging the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act. Also in this edition: Haitian nationals get more time to file for Temporary Protected Status, the House approves $701 million for border security measures, Tennessee enacts an immigration enforcement bill, and more. |
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06/30/2010 12:16 PM
Nigeria: Multiple Forms of Mobility in Africa's Demographic Giant This West African nation deals with a range of migration issues, from massive internal and regional migration to brain drain and a large, well-educated diaspora in the West that its government sees as key to future development. Blessing U. Mberu of the African Population and Health Research Center and Roland Pongou of Brown University take a comprehensive look at migration issues in Africa's most populous country. |
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06/16/2010 12:16 PM
Jamaica: From Diverse Beginning to Diaspora in the Developed World This former British colony in the Caribbean, once a destination for forced and indentured labor from across the globe, has experienced large emigration flows of both skilled and unskilled workers and their families to the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada over the last half century. As Alex Glennie and Laura Chappell of the Institute for Public Policy Research explain, the Jamaican government has a number of strategies to limit brain drain and to encourage return. |
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06/15/2010 12:16 PM
Political Considerations Surround Decision to Deploy National Guard to Southwest Border MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron report on President Barack Obama's decision to send 1,200 National Guard troops to the Southwest border, the continued debate over Arizona's immigration law, the State Department's 2010 trafficking report, increased US immigration application fees and more. |
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06/09/2010 12:16 PM
Indian Immigrants in the United States The 1.6 million Indian immigrants in the United States are the country's third-largest immigrant group and one of its best educated and fastest growing during the 2000s. MPI's Aaron Terrazas and Cristina Batog use the latest federal data to explore the population's size, geographic distribution, and socioeconomic characteristics. |
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05/27/2010 12:16 PM
On the Other Side of the Fence: Changing Dynamics of Migration in the Americas Migration from Latin America to the United States and Europe appears to have slowed in the wake of the recent global financial crisis. As Jacqueline Mazza and Eleanor Sohnen of the Inter-American Development Bank report, flows between Latin American countries expanded in the 1990s and are still growing, crisis or not, and some countries are taking a more regional approach to managing migration. |
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05/21/2010 12:16 PM
"It's Not Just About the Economy, Stupid" - Social Remittances Revisited Beyond traditional remittances, migrants bring with them and send back social remittances: ideas, know-how, practices, and skills. Peggy Levitt and Deepak Lamba-Nieves explain how social remittances work, their benefits and disadvantages, and how they can scale up. |
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05/17/2010 12:16 PM
New Arizona Law Engulfs Immigration Debate MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron take an in-depth look at Arizona's SB 1070, from the range of responses to what it means for federal immigration reform. Also in this edition: a bill that would revoke the US citizenship of those found helping terrorists, more delays for the "virtual fence," increased approvals for Mexican nationals' asylum applications, and more. |
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