Media freedom fell to new lows this month as a self-proclaimed anti-Rohingya supporter, American Rick Heizman, was welcomed with open arms in...
ON THE MEDIA | Myanmar’s press freedom mirage
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On Migration
ON IMMIGRATION | A dozen facts about immigration
This document provides a set of economic facts about the role of immigration in the U.S. economy, describing the patterns of recent immigration, the...
ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | Downward mobility: Where middle-class kids are worse off than their parents
[The economic pressures that trigger resistance to new immigrants] We hear a lot about upward mobility. But what goes up must come down. Source:...
ON MIGRATION | IRIN film takes top prize in the Migration Media Awards
IRIN’s 2017 film describing the squalid living conditions and abuse faced by migrants on the Serbia-Hungary border wins top video award. Source:...
ON THE MEDIA | Robert Greene’s ‘Bisbee ’17’ documentary revisits historic deportation
Documentary "Bisbee '17" looks to the past to understand today. ... artifice can be the most direct route to the truth. That’s especially the case...
Q&A: An Uncertain Future Ahead for Rohingya in Bangladesh
IPS Correspondent Tharanga Yakupitiyage talks to AMBASSADOR MASUD BIN MOMEN, permanent representative of Bangladesh to the U.N about the Rohingya'...
ON MIGRATION | Destination Europe: Unwelcome Homecoming
There’s a saying in Sierra Leone: “To try and fail is not a disgrace”. Except, it seems, if you’re a migrant who returns empty-handed...
ON IMMIGRATION | I came to America as a refugee. You took me just as I was.
Those who advocate abolishing a fundamental characteristic of U.S. immigration — welcoming the tired, the poor, the huddled masses— are neglecting...
IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE ISSUES | Trump to Cap Refugees Allowed Into U.S. at 30,000, a Record Low
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the further cuts to an already scaled-back program reflected a “daunting operational reality.” Source: NYT,...
ON THE MEDIA | NYT Opinion, Myanmar’s Assault on a Truthful Press
When Myanmar’s government defends the harsh sentence given to two courageous reporters who exposed mass murder, it breaks a fundamental promise of...
ON IMMIGRANTS & REFUGEES | Deaf, disabled Detroit immigrant in US for 34 years faces deportation
Francis Anwana, 48, was born in Nigeria and moved to the U.S. when he was 13 to attend a school for the deaf. Anwana lives in Detroit at an adult...
ON IMMIGRATS & REFUGEES | Migrants as Messengers Explain the Dangers of Irregular Migration
By IPS World Desk, Migrants as Messengers is a peer-to-peer messaging campaign by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) where returning...