Where are all young men going?
Dr. Manuel Carballo History has a tragic habit of repeating itself. Besieging civilian populations has always been a weapon of war. In 1940 the Nazis forced over 400,000 Jews into […]
Category Archives: Politics
GLOBALIZATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE BENEFITS OF LABOR MIGRATION
Labor migration has become an increasingly important feature in the current economic environment. As many developed and developing countries head towards an economic malaise, the unemployment rate is increasing at […]
U.S. Channel PBS Airs Controversial Coverage of U.S.-Mexico Border Abuses
Copyright 2005, Mark Campos Alternately feared and lauded by the many who have attempted or succeeded in crossing the border dividing the U.S. and Mexico and those who oppose their […]
Obama’s latest executive order: new possibilities for US immigrants?
Copyright 2010, Jason Redmond, Associated Press President Obama has recently issued an Executive Order that suggests a major shift in his immigration policy. While more immigrants have been deported during […]
World Refugee Day 2012
Copyright 2011, UNHCR As the world celebrates yet another Refugee Day it is important that we remind ourselves that the number of people being forcibly displaced across borders as well […]
A New Opportunity for Europe
President-elect François Hollande’s campaign was marked by an absence of the rhetoric on immigration that has come to characterize much of the political narrative of France and Greece in recent […]
Shooting Europe in the Foot: Europe’s Migration Migraine (Part 2)
A couple of weeks ago,we at ICMHD touched on the growing tendency for politicians to use the theme of migration in their campaigns and, more often than not, blaming migrants […]
Shooting Europe in the Foot: Europe’s Migration Migraine
Thomas Samson/Reuters The presidential campaign in France has predictably focused, once again, on the issue of migration. Migrants represent approximately 11% of the French population. Many, if not most, have […]
Climate Change: A health hazard?
In November 2011, a group of ministers and senior representatives of governments from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific met in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to discuss the threat […]
Asylum seeking: Seeing the positive
Asylum seeking is not new, and is in principle governed by well established and ratified international laws and principles. People have been fleeing persecutions of one kind or another for […]
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