| | | | By Jeanne Batalova In previous decades, the vast majority of Vietnamese immigrants to the United States arrived as refugees. Recently, most are coming through family reunification channels, either as immediate relatives of U.S. citizens or through other family-sponsored pathways. The change represents an evolution of the Vietnamese immigrant population, which is the sixth-largest in the United States and now includes more than 1.3 million people. This article provides a range of details about this group over time and currently. |
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| By Caroline Zickgraf According to extreme predictions, hundreds of millions of people will migrate because of climate change in coming years. So where are they? In fact, many adapt to environmental changes in place, choose to remain in their homeland, or simply cannot leave, due to a lack of money, connections, legal avenues, or other means to do so. These “trapped populations” may be among the most affected victims of climate change, this article explains. |
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| | | | Por Caitlyn Yates y Juan Pappier El paso por el Tapón del Darién ha transformado la migración en las Américas. Cada día, más de 1.000 personas cruzan lo que no hace mucho era un tramo de selva poco transitado entre Colombia y Panamá, la mayoría con la esperanza de llegar a Estados Unidos o Canadá. Es un viaje increíblemente arriesgado. Los gobiernos se han esforzado por responder al creciente movimiento, que se espera que supere los 500.000 cruces en 2023. Read the article in English: How the Treacherous Darien Gap Became a Migration Crossroads of the Americas |
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| | About 1.5 million Afghans living in Pakistan are at risk of being pushed out of the country due to a new crackdown targeting immigrants without authorization. Leaders in Islamabad have pledged to expel all irregular migrants starting in November, amid an increase in violence that the Interior Ministry says is connected to the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban, which has links to the Taliban in Afghanistan. The policy is intended to kick out unauthorized immigrants of all nationalities, government officials say, but Afghans are likely to bear the brunt of the crackdown. An estimated 3.7 million Afghans reside in Pakistan, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), of whom 1.3 million are registered refugees and 840,000 hold other legal status. That leaves about 1.5 million with no papers, including about 600,000 who arrived since the Taliban took control of Kabul in 2021. Pakistan’s new policy has raised alarm at the United Nations and with rights groups. Authorities have previously been accused of pushing out hundreds of thousands of Afghans in 2016, and it remains unclear precisely how they intend to implement the new effort or whether it would be possible to do so. But at the least, the move is likely to create new animosity towards Afghans in Pakistan, aggravating tensions on the ground. Meanwhile, about 2,000 miles to the west, 100,000 ethnic Armenians have fled the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh over the last few weeks, heading to Armenia amid a monthslong blockade and rapid-fire military campaign by Azerbaijan that leaders call an “act of ethnic cleansing.” The region has been hotly contested since the breakup of the Soviet Union, but this month the leader of the long unrecognized ethnic Armenian Republic of Artsakh announced its dissolution in the face of the Azerbaijani incursion. Tensions over the Afghan-Pakistan border and around Nagorno-Karabakh are longstanding, involving decades of violence, displacement, and geopolitics. As ethnic rivalries and nationalism heat up, innocent civilians are caught in the middle, targeted by attacks and forced out of their homes. Best regards, Julian Hattem
Editor, Migration Information Source
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| | "Compared to immigrants overall and the U.S. born, Filipino immigrants are more likely to hold a college degree and have a higher income, and are less likely to lack health insurance. Filipino immigrants also tend to be older than these groups." |
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"In landlocked Afghanistan, the key environmental drivers of migration are an increase in drought (due to low precipitation and reduced snowfall), frequency of floods (due to heavy and uneven rainfall, which has increased by between 10 percent and 25 percent over the last 30 years, as well as rapidly melting snow), and warmer temperatures that are on average 1.8 degrees Celsius higher than in 1950." |
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"In many places in North America and Europe, transit system riders are disproportionately immigrants." |
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