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World Policy Journal (2009) 26 (1): 33–44.
Published: 01 March 2009
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 108–119.
Published: 01 December 2014
... snow often for the first time in their lives. One of the most European features about the Sierra, though, is the legacy of Italian culture brought by immigrants at the end of the 19th century. By 1875, Brazil was already independent, when the government launched a colonization policy to bring people...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 76–82.
Published: 01 September 2017
... 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. Given...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 26–29.
Published: 01 March 2017
... 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...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 3–7.
Published: 01 March 2017
...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...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 88–100.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Bjørn Stærk Refugee immigrants find it particularly difficult to obtain employment in Norway. Only 28 percent of working age Somalis, 40 percent of Eritreans, and 42 percent of Iraqis have jobs. In the case of some highly educated immigrants, prejudiced employers may be to blame. Research shows...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 33–42.
Published: 01 March 2013
.... But despite stringent austerity measures, Spanish unemployment topped 25 percent, with Portugal at 15 percent. Joblessness is twice as high for immigrants. As Iberians settle in for what looks like a prolonged state of economic emergency, it appears that many social and cultural programs may be in jeopardy...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 41–49.
Published: 01 September 2004
...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...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 22–32.
Published: 01 March 2012
... awaits such women in Germany and their impact on German society is open to considerable debate, but more rarely discussed is the fact that many of the would-be immigrant spouses are men. In 2010, 43 percent of the spouses coming from Turkey were men, about the same percentage as 2006, the year before...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 100–108.
Published: 01 December 2011
... member, hit number one on the national bestseller list, accusing Muslim immigrants, particularly Turks, of dragging down German society. The book, Deutschland Schafft Sich Ab ( Germany Abolishes Itself ), claims Germany’s Turkish minority refuses to integrate, lacks intelligence, relies far more...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 21–25.
Published: 01 September 2017
... 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...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 14–21.
Published: 01 June 2018
... was last in power, Berlusconi has been convicted of tax evasion and abetting underage prostitution; he now seems to be even more popular than he was before. As for Meloni, she checks a lot of boxes for the Italian right: She’s a mamma, she’s anti-immigration, and she’s smart. And perhaps as importantly...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 37–46.
Published: 01 June 2004
..., 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...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 31–34.
Published: 01 December 2014
... influx of foreigners immigrating to Sweden from places like Eritrea, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, and Turkey, as well as Gypsies from Eastern Europe. The charge that there are too many of them and that they are taking jobs and benefits from ethnic Swedes was the main thrust...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 21–30.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., while taking their cars to the shopping mall—where they often find groups of young Moroccans lounging aimlessly. The Netherlands’ multicultural society is also visible at the soccer club. The teams are growing more ethnically diverse, but few immigrant parents are willing to volunteer to keep...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 19–21.
Published: 01 March 2013
... 2013 World Policy Institute Graham Lees President Barack Obama has thrown down the gauntlet with his call for “a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity.” It’s a bold move for a mainstream politician. Across the world...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 30–34.
Published: 01 March 2018
...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...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 64–66.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., certainly. It’s a fascinating tale of fantasies being played out. The events in themselves couldn’t correspond better to the mingling images that the Westerner cultivates of the Other, the immigrant-refugee: bleeding-heart optimism, terror, reactivation of the ancient fear of invasion of barbarians...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 105–114.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Damaso Reyes Still, expanding beyond immigrants is one of the biggest challenges Pentecostalism faces in Spain. Culturally, most Spaniards are Catholic, even if most haven’t stepped inside a church for years. While immigrants to Europe make up large percentages of Pentecostal congregations...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 17–24.
Published: 01 December 2001
... 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...