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Category Archives: Politics

Where are all young men going?

12/08/2014by International Centre for Migration Health and Development Leave a comment

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 […]

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Asylum seekers, Border Dispute, children left behind, Migration, Politics

GLOBALIZATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE BENEFITS OF LABOR MIGRATION

16/08/2013by International Centre for Migration Health and Development Leave a comment

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 […]

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Development, Migration, Politics, poverty, Urbanization

U.S. Channel PBS Airs Controversial Coverage of U.S.-Mexico Border Abuses

30/07/2012by International Centre for Migration Health and Development Leave a comment

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 […]

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Border Dispute, ICMHD, Migration, Politics

Obama’s latest executive order: new possibilities for US immigrants?

26/06/2012by International Centre for Migration Health and Development Leave a comment

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 […]

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Arizona immigration law, ICMHD, Migrants, Politics

World Refugee Day 2012

20/06/2012by International Centre for Migration Health and Development Leave a comment

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 […]

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forced migration, Migrants, Migration, Politics

A New Opportunity for Europe

08/05/2012by International Centre for Migration Health and Development 1 Comment

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 […]

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ICMHD, International Centre for Migration Health and Development, Migrants, Migration, Politics

Shooting Europe in the Foot: Europe’s Migration Migraine (Part 2)

10/04/2012by International Centre for Migration Health and Development 2 Comments

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 […]

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Health, Health Systems, ICMHD, Migrants, Migration, Politics

Shooting Europe in the Foot: Europe’s Migration Migraine

20/03/2012by International Centre for Migration Health and Development 1 Comment

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 […]

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Asylum seekers, forced migration, International Centre for Migration Health and Development, Migrants, Migration, Politics

Climate Change: A health hazard?

20/02/2012by International Centre for Migration Health and Development Leave a comment

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 […]

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climate change, DARA, forced migration, Health, ICMHD, Migrants, Migration, Politics

Asylum seeking: Seeing the positive

06/02/2012by International Centre for Migration Health and Development 1 Comment

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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Asylum seekers, forced migration, International Centre for Migration Health and Development, Migration, Politics

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