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...Fernanda Canofre Not every note is perfectly pitched in an immigrant’s song. Cosme shares a similar sentiment. “If we come here, it gets better. Now we are planting to reap in the future. For now, it’s good. I had to decide because when I was younger I didn’t have such opportunities.” His...

... to make a life for themselves in their unfamiliar homelands. She introduces us to Khe Khoeun, a former refugee now living with relatives in Cambodia, and describes how those with mental health problems are singularly ill-equipped to navigate America’s complicated immigration court system. Copyright ©...

... parties must build broad-based support for a multiethnic approach to governance that addresses inequality, strengthens unions, and develops sustainable immigration policies. These approaches work if voters are empowered to imagine a better future for themselves and their children. It is imperative...

... for condemnation, and the violence that would likely follow. Shabana Rehman, a comedian and journalist, and the daughter of Pakistani immigrants, warned her dark-skinned nephew to stay indoors. He might be mistaken for a Muslim, she thought, and be lynched. There was little violence in Oslo that day...

... comfortable to do business with Spain.” Amid the gloomy news of foreigners and natives fleeing the troubled peninsula, a hopeful omen has appeared. The new European Immigrant Citizens Survey found that in 2011, migrants were generally more satisfied with their lives in Spain and Portugal than the average...

...Michele Wucker Copyright © 2004 World Policy Institute 2004 Michele Wucker is a senior fellow and a member of the Program on Citizenship & Security Core Working Group a t the World Policy Institute. She is co-director of the Immigrant Voting Project (www.immigrantvoting.org...

...James Angelos The concern that subsequent immigration of families, so called “family reunification,” can exacerbate isolation of ethnic communities and hinder integration is widespread in Europe. As the Economist put it, “In countries founded through immigration, such as the United States...

...Deborah Steinborn “ a multicultural society also brings us opportunities .” Germany’s top political figures have been unable or unwilling to convey that message. When Sarrazin’s book rekindled mainstream anti-immigrant sentiment last year, Chancellor Angela Merkel fanned the flames...

... Institute 2017 United Kingdom Theresa May immigration minimum wage family migration TERMINAL5INSIDER L ondon —Mustafa has not seen his father for three years, a painful absence that often comes to his mind during the daily school run. “Where is my father?” he asks his mother, Muhado...

... the party line when it comes to his ideals, especially around nationalism and anti-immigration. Moreover, the two share an affinity for Italy’s most notorious leader. Berlusconi has often compared himself to Mussolini, and at a 2013 ceremony for Holocaust Remembrance Day he commented that the dictator...

..., the better off immigrants are, migrant worker remittances at an increas­ the less likely they are to send remittances. ing rate. In 2003, migrant workers living Thus, it is the poorest workers who are most abroad sent more than $100 billion in re­ responsible for keeping their home countries...

..., and education. In Denmark, the ultra-right, anti-immigrant Danish People’s Party, or DPP, entered parliament in 2001 as the country’s third-largest party. Now it’s underpinning a center-right government coalition, which has drafted tough new asylum policies and cut aid to the developing world. In 2014...

... spin. In France, the National Front has always been strong in its eastern departments, areas that had been occupied by Germany for decades. The Mediterranean coast, home to both rightist former colonists and poor immigrants both from northern Africa, is a winning ground as well. During recent...

... education systems to meet their needs. Those who stay in school often fall behind. These problems are not confined to the poorest countries. In OECD member states, first-generation immigrants typically lag 1.5 years behind their native peers. In several countries, including Germany, the Netherlands...

...Horacio Castellanos Moya I’ve sometimes thought that what I experience as I go through immigration—officers eyeing me with suspicion—might be due to the tragic expression that has settled on my features, and that this unconscious expression is not the product of an individual fear...

... and assisting, and the real depth of that work on the self and others, is also a naïve optimism that will kill. Refugees and immigrants cannot be reduced to the delinquencies of a minority, but there is a problem of values, values that must be shared, imposed, defended, and taught. It raises the problem...

...Natasha Bluth; Melody Chan World Policy Journal asked five experts from around the globe how the media has promoted or deterred xenophobia. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 media journalism xenophobia immigration The media’s coverage of the 2015 European refugee...

... congregation comprises several hundred parishioners from more than 16 nations. Most are either immigrants or the children of immigrants from the Caribbean and Central and South America. “Once they get inside the doors they feel something different,” he says of new members, many of whom come from a Catholic...

... to immigration decisionmaking, and a highly proportional and tax cuts. electoral system ensured that no one party In neighboring Austria a year ago, Jorg could exercise political dominance. The ideo­ Haider’s far-right Freedom Party won a logical conflict between the opposition...