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BBC News
March 25, 2018
Almost 200 people marched through the streets of London as part of an art project looking at the capital's "issues after Brexit". People carried clay hearts inscribed with messages from the riverside of Somerset House to London Migration Museum in Lambeth. The procession was the brainchild of artist Penny Ryan, whoÃâà...
Economic Times
March 25, 2018
Globally, wealth migration is accelerating. Around 95,000 millionaires left their countries last year, as against 82,000 in 2016 and 64,000 in 2015, according to a NW World report. India, therefore, is following the global trend in wealth migration. When seen in conjunction with the rate of growth of millionairesÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 24, 2018
At a meeting in Niamey last week European and African interior and foreign affairs ministers and international organisations met to discuss smuggling and trafficking. The meeting is the next step in the initiative for cooperation on security and migration launched at the Paris meeting convened by PresidentÃâà...
Governing
March 23, 2018
Migration out of densely populated areas has broadened, now spanning highly educated urban counties and more regions of the country. Some jurisdictions, such as New York City's boroughs, are seeing larger than typical losses to other localities. Even big counties experiencing population growth aren'tÃâà...
CSUN Today
March 23, 2018
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan's Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (Spanish for crossing the face of the moon) was one of the performances handpicked by The Soraya staff to address topics of migration and immigration as part of their Music Knows No Borders series. The Mariachi Vargas performance had 58Ãâà...
Brookings Institution (blog)
March 23, 2018
Migration has often been a means for people to improve their well-being—by enabling them to pursue better economic opportunities, escape oppression and violence, and enhance their quality of life, for example. In Chapter 3 of Foresight Africa 2018, viewpoint author Abebe Shimeles shows that in 2017Ãâà...
Scientific American
March 23, 2018
A new World Bank report released this week declares that if nothing is done to curb global warming and factor migration into development planning, by mid-century this internal population shift could involve more than 140 million people in three regions examined: sub-Saharan Africa, south Asia and LatinÃâà...
Dove Medical Press
March 18, 2018
Introduction: Although some circRNAs have been found to regulate the progression of malignancies, their functions and coupled molecular mechanisms are still unclear. In our study, we sought to assess the underlying molecular mechanisms of circRNAs in breast cancer and therefore explored theÃâà...
The Libya Observer
March 18, 2018
Interior Minister, Abdel Salam Ashour, attended the international meeting on combating the smuggling of migrants, human trafficking, and related crimes, with the participation of the interior ministers of the countries of origin, transit and destination. The meeting, which was held in Niger's capital, Niamey onÃâà...
POLITICO.eu
March 18, 2018
The EU has adopted a condescending tone in dealing with Eastern European countries on migration, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said in an interview with Die Welt am Sonntag. “A moralising tone has crept in with the Eastern Europeans, which is counterproductive because every state has itsÃâà...
Scottsbluff Star Herald
March 17, 2018
Each year, 80 percent of the world's Sandhill crane population stages in Nebraska during the migration from the big birds' southern wintering sites to their northern breeding grounds. March marks the peak of the migration for numerous birds, including cranes and waterfowl. About half a million cranes stopÃâà...
The Independent
March 16, 2018
President Donald Trump's pick to lead the United Nations migration organisation has been sharing his view that Muslims want to impose Sharia law in the US for several years. A CNN investigation revealed that Ken Isaacs has an “extensive history” of posting tweets promoting “anti-Muslim sentiments”.
ABC News
March 16, 2018
A man injured lies on the ground during the clashes with Spanish National Police in Lavapies, a neighbourhood of Madrid, Spain, Thursday, March 15, 2018. Street clashes erupted Thursday night in central Madrid over the death of a 35-year-old African vendor who witnesses said died trying to escape fromÃâà...
News Deeply
March 13, 2018
Speeding up asylum decisions and stepping up returns offer Italy's politicians an effective and decent answer to public anger over migration. John Dalhuisen and Gerald Knaus say that the human rights lobby must recognize the alternative is far worse.
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
March 13, 2018
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Sputnik International
March 13, 2018
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The promise of Germany's incoming Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer to accelerate the deportations of migrants is no more than empty words, while in fact he plans to oppose the tough stance on migration represented in the parliament by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party,Ãâà...
UGA Today
March 13, 2018
Animal migration patterns are changing as humans alter the landscape, according to new research from the University of Georgia. Those changes can affect wildlife interactions with parasites—with potential impacts on public health and on the phenomenon of migration itself. In a paper published inÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 13, 2018
Tokyo – The Government of Japan has donated USD 30.5 million to support IOM, the UN Migration Agency, in its 2018 operations – assisting vulnerable migrants such as displaced persons, refugees, returnees and affected communities, in the midst of various conflicts and crises continuing around theÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 13, 2018
Geneva – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, will join a high-level panel on 14 March during the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva (FIFDH), Switzerland. The panel titled “Climate Refugees”: Drop the Quotation Marks! will focus on the impact of climate change on populationÃâà...
Devex
March 12, 2018
CANBERRA — Climate change is a more important driver of migration than income and political freedom at origin countries combined, and that figure may even be underestimated, a leading researcher on the interplay between climate and migration has told Devex. Combining migration flows between 198Ãâà...
BBC News
March 11, 2018
Priscilla Ng'ethe, Zara Rashid and I all have something in common: our mothers are all immigrants. Our grandmas still live in their home countries of Kenya, Pakistan and Guyana, but we all grew up in the UK. Our mums made the journey abroad to England and by doing so they changed our lives forever.
fox2now.com
March 11, 2018
The road closes every spring and fall to allow for the safe migration to and from winter hibernation areas. It's in the LaRue-Pine Hills Research Natural Area, on the western edge of the forest. The (Carbondale) Southern Illinoisan reports that the two-month migration attracts people from around the countryÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 11, 2018
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, an indigenous woman from the Mbororo pastoralist community of Chad, explained her situation to the UN's Migration Agency. "Migration has now become an inevitable method of adaptation for us ... As a means of survival for us and our animals, we are forced to continuouslyÃâà...
Irish Times
March 10, 2018
Prof Bryan Fanning's deep knowledge and experience of researching and publishing on migration and Ireland makes him an eminently suitable author to tackle this complex topic on such a scale. His new book tackles inward and outward migration over a millennium, showing that it is one of the definingÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 9, 2018
Berlin – Since IOM, the UN Migration Agency, began collecting data through the Missing Migrants Project in 2014, it has recorded the deaths of 1,234 women, more than half of whom died while attempting to cross the Mediterranean. This figure represents less than five percent of the total number of migrantÃâà...
Inside NoVA
March 9, 2018
Great Falls resident Robin Kent has photographed landscapes all over the world, from Iceland and Yosemite National Park to Antarctica, but also has sought an elusive, mobile quarry: monarch butterflies. Tens of millions of the iconic orange-black-and-white butterflies shuttle back and forth betweenÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 9, 2018
Mar 8 2018 (IOM) - To fully understand the Caribbean region, one must look at migration and its effects. This region has experienced – and is still experiencing – several migratory movements which have contributed to the configuration of Caribbean societies. The feminization of migration, the emigration ofÃâà...
National Geographic
March 9, 2018
The annual migration of blacktip sharks from southern Florida to North Carolina has begun—and researchers who track this amazing ritual say there are seeing only about one-third the usual number. The sharks—all male—swim south during the coldest months of the year and head north when springÃâà...
EUobserver
March 9, 2018
"The pilot project crime information cell will be a hub within operation Sophia to optimise the use of information collected by Sophia for crime prevention, investigation, and prosecution," EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos told reporters. He said one of the key objectives is to ease two-wayÃâà...
Wyoming Business Report
March 6, 2018
“Studying human migration is very important, especially new studies, such as this one, that are multi- and interdisciplinary in their approach,” Jankovi writes. “Only through a holistic approach where we discuss genetic, archaeological and anthropological data, and through collaboration of scientists ofÃâà...
EU News
March 6, 2018
Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, Dimitris Avramopoulos, said: "It is now time to go beyond the "crisis discourse" about migration we hear every day, and to focus instead on how to turn migration into a real opportunity, for all of us. Now and in the long term. For those who haveÃâà...
The Conversation AU
March 5, 2018
But it is also true that immigration is affecting house prices and rents. Australian governments are squandering the gains from migration with poor housing and infrastructure policies. Our new report, Housing affordability: re-imagining the Australian dream, shows what's at stake. Unless the states reform theirÃâà...
eNCA
March 4, 2018
HARARE, 04 March 2018 - The International Organisation for Migration and the United States are lauding the Zimbabwean government's efforts in dealing with human trafficking and migration. Video: eNCA. HARARE - The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and the United States have praisedÃâà...
Scientific American
March 4, 2018
Then, we examined archival records such as the Bristol Register of Servants to Foreign Plantations to see if the language clues we'd identified were backed up by historical evidence of migration. Indeed, these boat records indicate that indentured servants departing for English colonies were predominantlyÃâà...
Council on Foreign Relations
February 26, 2018
In 2017, more than one hundred countries began discussions on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees. Both seek to arrive at agreed-upon principles and commitments among UN states on issues facing migrants and refugees with the goal ofÃâà...
CNBC
December 31, 1999
The European Union (EU) has been "very unbalanced and very irresponsible" in its handling of the continent's migration crisis, Hungary's foreign minister told CNBC on Monday. Peter Szijjarto said Hungary "should be able to control and protect its own borders." Budapest's relations with the EU have beenÃâà...
Science Daily
December 31, 1999
When human-provided food resources allow some animals to forego migration and form resident populations, the consequences can be serious. For one thing, by the time migrants return, resident individuals may already be taking up breeding territories and resources, putting the migrants at a competitiveÃâà...
EU News
December 31, 1999
Ahead of the March European Council, the Commission is reporting today on progress made under the European Agenda on Migration and sets out further key actions to be taken, including as set out in the Commission's roadmap from December 2017 towards a comprehensive deal on migration by JuneÃâà...
The Conversation US
December 31, 1999
Then, we examined archival records such as the Bristol Register of Servants to Foreign Plantations to see if the language clues we'd identified were backed up by historical evidence of migration. Indeed, these boat records indicate that indentured servants departing for English colonies were predominantlyÃâà...