| | | | By Yvette Ruzibiza and Simon Turner Tanzania’s previously generous policies towards refugees have grown more restrictive. Many newcomers are confined to camps separated from the rest of the community, and authorities have been accused of pressuring thousands of migrants to return to Burundi and Mozambique. In border communities, however, relations between natives and foreign nationals are much calmer, as this article details. |
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| By Caitlin Davis and Jeanne Batalova Immigrants from the Philippines make up the fourth-largest foreign-born group in the United States, numbering nearly 2 million people. Compared to other U.S. immigrants, Filipinos are more likely to have strong English skills, be naturalized U.S. citizens, and hold a college degree. This article provides statistics about these and other elements of the Filipino immigrant population. |
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| | | By Julia Morris For two decades, many asylum seekers hoping to reach Australia by boat were diverted to Nauru, a small Pacific Island nation that made a hefty profit off the extraterritorial asylum arrangement. But the program had costs of its own, including damage to Nauru's global public image and the transformation of its local economy to support the asylum industry. The arrangement ended this year, when the last refugee held by Australia left Nauru in June. Now, the island nation confronts a future without refugees. This article examines how offshore asylum deals such as Nauru's affect local communities. |
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| | | By Muzaffar Chishti and Kathleen Bush-Joseph A record 1.9 million migrants in the United States have a twilight immigration status such as humanitarian parole, protection through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, or Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Additionally, more than 700,000 other migrants have been allowed to enter the United States through even shorter-term immigration parole to undergo removal proceedings. The ballooning number of immigrants without a clear path to lawful permanent residence is a sign of the Biden administration's embrace of executive authority to grant immigration protections in the absence of congressional action, as this article explains. |
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| | | As a migration corridor, the Arabian Desert tends to receive far less attention than the scrub of the Chihuahua desert that stretches across the U.S.-Mexico border or the waves of the Mediterranean between North Africa and Europe. But the dangerous passage and traumas afflicting migrants on the Arabian Peninsula deserve just as much scrutiny. Hundreds of asylum seekers and other migrants from Ethiopia were killed by Saudi authorities at the Saudi-Yemen border between March 2022 and this June, according to recent allegations by Human Rights Watch. The group’s report last week documented cases in which migrants were shot at close range, subjected to mortar attacks and other explosives, and were raped or forced to rape fellow travelers. While Saudi officials have denied the claims, U.S. diplomats reportedly learned about the grim developments months ago, but declined to reveal or condemn them publicly. The Ethiopian government said last week it was launching an investigation “in tandem” with Saudi Arabia. The killings and other attacks detailed in the report appear to be a systematic escalation of the violence and abuses that have long afflicted migrants along the Eastern Route connecting the Horn of Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, as an earlier Migration Information Source article detailed. The pathway is traversed virtually exclusively by Ethiopians, of which there are an estimated 750,000 living in Saudi Arabia, where they might expect to earn five times what they could in their origin country. The riches of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states may be a powerful lure. But migrants must first pass through Yemen, where a nearly decade-long civil war in which the Saudis have intervened has ground to a stalemate. Migrants face further difficulties when reaching the border: Saudi authorities have repeatedly been accused of forcibly returning irregular arrivals and subjecting them to long periods of detention in overcrowded facilities. For those who get in, many Ethiopian immigrants in Saudi Arabia say they do not feel safe there, and Riyadh has sought to deport large numbers resident without authorization, publicly agreeing to return more than 100,000 last year. More than 90 percent of the nearly 870 migrant deaths recorded along the Eastern Route last year by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) were near the Saudi-Yemen border. This death toll is surely a dramatic undercount, given the remoteness of the territory and the large numbers of people who disappear in the Gulf of Aden or in the desert sands. Without a doubt, Gulf-bound African migrants often endure great difficulties on this dangerous migration pathway. The recent report shines crucial light on a journey that can be punctuated by horrors as travelers approach their destination. Best regards, Julian Hattem
Editor, Migration Information Source
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"More refugees arrived in the United States in the first eight months of fiscal year (FY) 2023 than any year since FY 2017." |
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"Given Japan’s rapid population aging, growing foreign population, active government recruitment of targeted immigrant groups, and efforts to better integrate the foreign population already in Japan, it is a reasonable assumption that immigration will continue to grow." |
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