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INDIA: Lay-offs from Recession-hit Gulf Lead to New Lives at Home
By K S Harikrishnan
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India - Domestic worker Beena Joy, 35, came back empty-handed after losing her job in recession-hit United Arab Emirates, but soon found that getting laid-off has given her a happier life back home here in this southern Indian city.
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GREECE: New Migrant Law Tough But Respects Rights
By Apostolis Fotiadis
ATHENS - The newly elected Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) government's plans to move legislation, that will greatly affect migrants and refugees, have been both welcomed and criticised by rights organisations and activists.
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RIGHTS-INDIA: Commonwealth Games: No Medals for Labourers
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - If medals are being given out for backbreaking labour on miserable wages and impossible working conditions, thousands of migrant workers, slaving to complete stadia and other facilities for the October Commonwealth Games in the Indian capital, will be the champions.
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MIGRATION: Lost in the Desert? There's an App for That
By Enrique Gili
SAN DIEGO, California - Over the past two decades, Ricardo Dominguez has made a career for himself tweaking the sensibilities of government officials and developing software tools meant to disrupt the status quo.
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RIGHTS: This Time Around, Thailand Targets Karen Refugees
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Thailand’s attempt to repatriate over 3,000 ethnic Karens who fled the conflict in military-ruled Burma last year has triggered strong local and international objections, including from 27 members of the United States Congress.
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U.S.: Immigration Enforcement Prone to Abuses

By William Fisher
NEW YORK - A little-known programme run by the Department of Homeland Security is using inaccurate databases and functioning "as little more than a dragnet to funnel even more people into the already overburdened" detention and deportation system of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
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JORDAN: Palestinians Unfairly Stripped of Citizenship - Report
By Charles Fromm
WASHINGTON - The Jordanian government should halt the arbitrary revocation of nationality from its citizens of Palestinian origin, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Monday.
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MIGRATION: Fortress Europe Starts With Greece
By Apostolis Fotiadis
ATHENS - When Michalis Chrisohoidis, Greek minister of citizens' protection announced that FRONTEX, the European Agency for Border Control and Protection, would double its representation in this country in spring, it was clear that Greece is being charged with special responsibilities to apprehend and repatriate illegal migrants into Europe.
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FRANCE: Burqa Ban Keeps Immigration Issue Alive
By A. D. McKenzie
PARIS - With the French regional elections coming up in March and a debate on national identity raging, the burqa polemic is keeping the immigration and "values" issue alive here.
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LABOUR: Migrant Domestic Workers’ Rights Next on ILO’s Agenda
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Po Po has been enduring long hours of hard work, poor pay and abuse within the confines of her employer’s home for the past seven years. Poverty forced her to leave her family in eastern Burma and abandon a university education to work as a domestic helper in Thailand.
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MIGRATION: Haitians in U.S. See Chance for Better Life
By Marguerite A. Suozzi
NEW YORK - More than a decade ago, Marie Elisemonde left Haiti, fleeing threats of rape and murder by thugs, or zengledo in Creole, who could only be appeased with money. She paid 700 dollars for her seat on a boat to the United States, without any guarantees of a safe arrival or entry.
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LABOUR: North America's Long Winter of Discontent
By Peter Costantini
SEATTLE, Washington - In the wake of a blizzard of economic hardship across North America, native land of the financial crash of 2008 and ensuing Great Recession, the shapes of other possible worlds are emerging from the drifts. Some are frozen and dystopian, but others may harbour green shoots of hope.
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ZIMBABWE: One Million Casualties of Land Reform
By Ann Hellman
JOHANNESBURG and CAPE TOWN - The seizure of large commercial farms - almost all white-owned - has continued despite the formation of a unity government in Zimbabwe. The country's farm workers say they are the biggest losers.
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Human migration is a matter of global concern. Flows of migrants and refugees influence and change the social, economic and political dynamics of their destinations -- and the places they have left behind. IPS covers crucial issues such as migrant and refugee rights, irregular or undocumented migration, human trafficking, remittances, displaced persons and forced labour. And the positive: in many cases migration creates a new dialogue among civilisations. Migrants themselves become the building blocks of bridges connecting different cultures.