Venezuela’s Deepening Crisis Triggers Mass Migration Into Colombia
February 20, 20184:57 PM ET JOHN OTIS
Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, a political risk consulting firm, calls it the world’s “least-talked-about” immigration crisis.
Category Archives: migrant
dreamers and wall
NPR Poll: 2 In 3 Support Legal Status For DREAMers; Majority Oppose Building A Wall
the wall
Former Agent Says, ‘Border Patrol Does Good Work … But There’s Tension There’
February 6, 20184:57 AM ET STEVE INSKEEP
And so I really think, no matter what obstacle we put at the border, it’s going to be subverted. People are going to find a way up, over, under or around it.”
Italy migrants
Driver opens fire on African migrants in Italian city of Macerata
At least six people are said to have been shot in attack described as racially motivated
Thousands protest against Racism and Xenophobia in Macerata
https://www.thelocal.it/20180209/far-right-demonstrators-clash-police-banned-protest-macerata
The Banality of Crimes against Migrants
The Banality of Crimes against Migrants
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/editorial-on-crimes-against-migrants-a-1175239.html
Ioannis Kalpouzos and Itamar Mann October 28, 2017
Around the world, migrants are locked up in camps, abused and often driven to the brink of starvation. Many die as a result. These crimes should finally be punished, by the International Criminal Court.
Agnes Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, and Arbitrary Executions, presented animportant new report to the UN General Assembly on Friday. The report is on “Unlawful Death of Refugees and Migrants”
Militarized borders have soon been deployed against migrants on the fault lines between the “developed” and the “developing” worlds.
Australia has introduced windowless and allegedly un-drownable rafts to push refugees back to foreign shores. In 2015, European countries sought and obtained a UN Security Council Resolution to use force against smugglers in the Mediterranean, a extraordinary measure clearly signaling the unprecedented militarization of border controls.
Australia has struck agreements with Nauru and Papua New Guinea and used private corporations like G4S and Ferrovial to host and run camps of indefinite and inhumane detention. The EU has used Turkey and, most lately, Libyan militia to ensure migrants don’t make it across the Mediterranean.
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) is increasingly accused of ‘torture-like’ practices in support of the Government’s deportation imperatives. Some of its detention facilities are also privately run.
Sea Prayer
Sea Prayer, a new virtual reality experience
The night before a potentially fatal journey, a father reflects with his son on their life in Syria before the war – and their unknown future. Painted with Google Tilt Brush and written by Khaled Hosseini, award-winning author of ‘The Kite Runner’ and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador.
Germany for Germans
US Ad Agency with ties to Trump works with AfD
https://www.facebook.com/groups/hons221/permalink/1933845970161238/
refugees and forced migration
conference Istanbul Turkey
REFUGEES AND FORCED IMMIGRATION ’17 / II. International Interdisciplinary Conference on Refugee and Forced Immigration Studies in Social Sciences, Humanities and Art
SEPTEMBER 29-30, 2017
Istanbul, Turkey
All of the presented papers will be published in the proceedings e-book (with an ISBN number), which will be given to you in a DVD box and will be sent to be reviewed in the “Thomson & Reuters WOS’ Conference Proceedings Citation Index-CPCI”.
paris france
The French, Coming Apart
A social thinker illuminates his country’s populist divide.
Christopher Caldwell Spring 2017
https://www.city-journal.org/html/french-coming-apart-15125.html
Christophe Guilluy calls himself a geographer. 2010, with the newest, Le crépuscule de la France d’en haut (roughly: “The Twilight of the French Elite”
At the heart of Guilluy’s inquiry is globalization. Internationalizing the division of labor has brought significant economic efficiencies. But it has also brought inequalities unseen for a century, demographic upheaval, and cultural disruption. Now we face the question of what—if anything—we should do about it.
A process that Guilluy calls métropolisation has cut French society in two.
Cheap labor, tariff-free consumer goods, and new markets of billions of people have made globalization a windfall for such prosperous places. But globalization has had no such galvanizing effect on the rest of France. Cities that were lively for hundreds of years—Tarbes, Agen, Albi, Béziers—are now, to use Guilluy’s word, “desertified,”