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Illegal immigrants to be given 'bridging visa'
Migrant Rights Centre Ireland is an Atlantic grantee. by Stephen Rogers SEVERAL thousand illegal immigrants open to immediate expulsion are to be allowed stay in the country for at least four months under legislation published yesterday. The group is comprised of citizens from outside the…
Author: Irish Examiner
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Rules favour informalisation, corruption
by CHRISTINA TAYLOR SOUTH AFRICA can gain from offering more resources and legitimacy to immigrants, academics suggest, but the country’s citizens meanwhile suffer from restrictions on the rights of foreign nationals. According to a draft submission by the Forced Migration Studies Programme at Wits University to the…
Author: Cape Times (South Africa)
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Brexit campaign in North ‘played on racism and emotions’
Immigrants in Dungannon are very concerned about what might change and when by Gerry Moriarty in Dungannon Bernadette McAliskey: the lifelong republican and socialist was conflicted about how to vote in EU referendum but went for Remain based on practical reasons. Photograph: Paula Geraghty Lifelong republican…
Author: The Irish Times
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How Cuba Is Leading the International Fight Against Ebola
A health worker is reflected in a mirror as he prepares protective equipment in Sierra Leone’s capital city, Freetown. Cuba has dispatched 165 health workers to the country to combat the Ebola outbreak. Credit: Reuters By Marc Kilstein and Joyce Hackel The US has long…
Author: Public Radio International
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Houston’s Clergy Unites to Urge Support for Immigration Reform
HOUSTON — The Rev. John W. Bowie knows it is hard to sell the people in his neighborhood on the idea that they should support changing immigration laws to give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. His church lies in one of the oldest black…
Author: The New York Times
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Medical school supports strikers
by Lyse Comins The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine has brought lectures, training and clinical duties in hospitals to a halt in solidarity with striking doctors who have vowed to continue protesting until the Department of Health reinstates their 244 fired…
Author: Daily News (South Africa)
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Downsizings force baby boomers to reinvent careers
Original Source by BOB MOOS After a decade or more of corporate downsizings, baby boomers are looking upon cradle-to-grave job security with the same nostalgia as Hula Hoops and 45 rpm records. When boomers entered the workforce, many thought they could spend their careers with…
Author: Dallas Morning News
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CoRMSA Report Outlines Way Forward Following Xenophobic Attacks
The recent violence against non-South Africans across the country is not a new phenomenon nor is it likely to end with deaths that shocked South Africa in May. The violence is but the most recent episode in a long history of the exclusion and marginalisation…
Author: CoRMSA
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US NGOs Fund Nearly $1.5Mln for Health Sector in Central Vietnam
Health: US NGOs Fund Nearly $1.5Mln for Health Sector in Central Vietnam Vietnam News Brief Service (c) 2006 Toan Viet Limited Company. All rights reserved. The US non-governmental organizations of East Meets West and Atlantic Philanthropies have recently funded nearly $1.5 million for eye care…
Author: Vietnam News Brief Service
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Not-So Sweet Home Alabama: What Alabamians Are Saying About Their State's New Immigration Law
Kassi Cruz picks tomatoes in Steele, Alabama, on October 3, 2011. Cruz decided to pitch in to help after the majority of migrant workers left after the new Alabama immigration law took effect last week. By Center for American Progress Immigration Team Alabama has reawakened…
Author: Center for American Progress