Migrants

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• Burmese Migrant Workers Arrested in Bangkok Night Bazaar

  
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  Burmese migrant workers selling goods in the Lonmany night bazaar in the centre of Bangkok have been arrested since the market began earlier this month. About 3700 shops employing thousands of Burmese migrants working in the market had previously paid 1,000 Baht per worker to the local police. Store owners ...
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• Important Migrant News:Thailand to issue residential permits to migrant children

  
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  by Kyaw Kha Sunday, 13 December 2009 23:15 Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The Thai government is working on issuing official residential permits to children of migrant workers their country. The children between 5 and 15 years of age of migrant workers hailing from Burma, Laos and Cambodia must apply for registration at ...
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• Tories Reveal Official Immigration Policy: “Tens of Thousands of Immigrants a Year”

  
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  A Conservative Party government will encourage “tens of thousands of immigrants” to come to Britain every year, according to Tory Party shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling. Speaking at an immigration debate organised by the leftist Institute for Public Policy Research think tank last week, Mr Grayling made the ...
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• Brit authorities allowed Manchester terror suspects to work as security guards

  
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  London, Dec. 13 (ANI): The British Home Office had allowed all the ten members of a suspected Islamic terror group, who were arrested earlier this year on charges of plotting attacks on nigh clubs and shopping centres in Manchester, to work as security guards in the country, it has emerged.According to The Times, the ...
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• Barn Swallow flocking

  
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  “It has been a better migration year compared to last few years, with more Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica gutturalis) and more first winter/juveniles seen. This group comprised approximately 150-160 birds, with 10-15% first winter/juveniles. They were preening mid-morning after feeding.“Still a far cry from when I ...
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• Rep Luis Gutierrez wants CIR ASAP!

  
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  Earlier today Representative Luis Gutierrez announced he would be introducing a comprehensive immigration reform bill this upcoming Tuesday. And while Representative Gutierrez has been a true champion for just and humane immigration reform, he has some serious support behind this new bill already, with the ...
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• First settlers in China and the Orient were Indian migrants: Study

  
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  New Delhi, Dec. 11 (ANI): The ancestors of the contemporary population of China, Japan and other East Asian countries had migrated from India, according to a research study conducted by a team of scientists from 10 Asian countries.The Minister of State for Science and Technology, Prithviraj Chavan, disclosed this ...
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• Radio marathon for International Migrants Day

  
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  Radio 1812 - radio marathon for International Migrants Day on Friday 18th December By Cathy Aikinson from Radio 1812 Join us on Friday 18th December when Phonic FM takes part in Radio 1812 , a worldwide radio marathon for International Migrants Day. Negative stories about migration and migrants are never ...
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• Thailand to register migrant children

  
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  Dec 10, 2009 (DVB)–Children of migrant workers from Burma, Laos and Cambodia will soon be registered by the Thai government and eligible to enroll in school, migrant organisations have announced. The process is already underway in a number of towns on Thailand’s border with Burma, and Thai government officials ...
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• Prejudice and discrimination against migrants

  
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  According to a recent survey of 8 European countries the British are more anti-immigrant and xenophobic than the rest of western Europe – blaming immigrants for unemployment, and split over whether to grant them equal social benefits.One in 10 people living in the UK is now foreign-born and two in three people ...
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• JACBA:ယာယီပတ္စပို ့မလုပ္ ေသာ ဘန္ေကာက္ျမိဳ ့အနီး့္ၾကက္သားစက္ရံုအလုပ္သမားမ်ားဖမ္းဆီးခံရ့့့

  
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• Climate Refugees Could Number 1 Billion by 2050

  
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  Climate refugees in central Zimbabwe. Photo via EcoWorldy While the disastrous consequences of climate change may seem a ways off for some in the developed world, the International Organization for Migration reported today that it has already driven an estimated 24 million people from their homes–a number, they ...
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• Climate change already driving migration: IOM (human migration)

  
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  GENEVA (AFP) – Climate change is already forcing people to migrate, with most moving within their countries or to a neighbouring country, a report by the International Organization for Migration said Tuesday. While the report did not give any estimates on numbers of climate change migrants, it warned that poor ...
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• Advent: Hope for Immigrants Too

  
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  Last year at Christmastime one of my neighbors was deported. The next day his mother showed up to volunteer as a gift wrapper at our annual community Christmas Store. I told her she should go home, that it was all…
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• Dr Cynthia Mg 50th Birth Day 6Dec2009

  
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  [IMG: http://img.youtube.com/vi/GgQN6wFNz2E/2.jpg][IMG: http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democracyforburma.wordpress.com&blog=5783676&post=20147&subd=democracyforburma&ref=&feed=1]
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• Assam amends illegal foreigners notice

  
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  Guwahati, Dec 8 (IANS) The Assam government issued a notification Tuesday amending the Quit India Notice order for those identified as illegal foreigners and has asked the authorities to immediately arrest such persons.Announcing this in the state assembly, Accord Implementation and Revenue Minister Bhumidhar Barman ...
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• Immigration, A Collection of Images

  
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  There’s more on immigration  here (including a discussion of the links between migration and human rights). Other collections of human rights images are here . U.S. ark welcoming immigration Canada welcoming immigrants ( source ) ( source ) ( source ) ( source ) Posted in ...
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• China top source of immigration

  
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  Peter Martin; 8/12/09China has become Australia’s biggest source of migrants, for the first time eclipsing New Zealand and Britain. The latest migration figures show a record 6350 new settlers arrived from mainland China in the four months to October, compared with the 5800 from Britain and the 4740 from New ...
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• Monsoon fails to budge Tamils from sit-in at Indonesian port

  
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  Stephen Fitzpatrick; 8/12/09More than 240 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers staging a sit-in at an Indonesian port are maintaining their protest in the hope of resettlement in Australia, New Zealand or another country, despite worsening conditions on their cargo boat.  The group’s leader, Sanjeev “Alex” Kuhendrarajah, ...
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• Urban refugees struggle to make ends meet in South Africa

  
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  PRETORIA, South Africa, December 7 (UNHCR) - Telmore Mutinhima struggles to sleep on his grimy, threadbare mattress on an early South African morning. It’s his most treasured possession - it’s his only possession.There’s the odour of unwashed bodies in the abandoned warehouse where he lies in a cubicle amid ...
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