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 IMMIGRATION | A dozen facts about immigration
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Press Coverage of NIRV Films: Refugee Film…on Campus
The New Paltz Oracle (SUNY - New Paltz newspaper) October 4, 2018 by Matthew McDonough Boston based film-making group Community Supported Film...
NIRV Screen & Discuss at St Augustine & St Martin’s Church
“Somos valiente!” — We are brave, said an audience member who believes that immigrants always put themselves forward. She emphasized that immigrants...
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:...
NIRV Events at New York Colleges a Success!
“Just put yourself in the other person’s shoes,” urged a student at SUNY New Paltz, emphasizing the importance of compassion for others. Our project...
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 THE MEDIA | The Shrinking Space for Media Freedom in Uganda
Last month, a horrifying video circulated on social media in Uganda. It shows Reuters photographer, James Akena, surrounded by Uganda Peoples...
ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | Another global financial crisis for developing countries?
George Soros, Bill Gates and other pundits have been predicting another financial crisis. In their recent book, Revolution Required: The Ticking...
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...
Press Coverage of NIRV Films in Ohio: “Short Films … By Immigrants”
The Jambar (Youngstown State University newspaper) September 19, 2018 By Victoria Remley [edited by CSFilm for length and accuracy] The new short...