U.S. Polls Bode Ill for Immigration Reform
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Matthew O. Berger WASHINGTON, Nov 1, 2010 (IPS) – With conservatives likely to be the biggest winners in Tuesday’s U.S. congressional elections,...
View ArticleMEXICO: Tens of Thousands of Missing Central American Migrants
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Nov 5 , 2010 (IPS) – The last time Estela Domínguez of Mexico saw her daughter Estela Paz was in April 2006, when the young...
View ArticleU.S.: Courts Throw Out a Third of Deportation Cases
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Nov 19, 2010 (IPS) – While U.S. immigration authorities are "understandably eager to trumpet the overall number" of people...
View ArticleECUADOR: "Universal Citizenship" Clashes with Reality
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Feb 14, 2011 (IPS) – "Good morning. I’ve come to see a friend," says a young man in a brown cap carrying a small plastic bag of...
View ArticleFormer U.S. Soldier Told He Has No Country
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Viji Sundaram* SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 4, 2011 (IPS) – Forty-four-year-old Ramdeo Chankar Singh is at his wits’ end. The former U.S. soldier, honourably...
View ArticleITALY: Migrants Settle Into Permanent Struggle
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Matt Carr BOLOGNA, Italy, Mar 13, 2011 (IPS) – The momentous political events in North Africa have been accompanied by increasingly apocalyptic...
View ArticleLibya Poses Immigration Challenge to Italy
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Sabina Zaccaro ROME, Apr 2, 2011 (IPS) – The influx of migrants arriving from Libya and other African countries has created an unprecedented...
View ArticleQ&A: U.S. Immigration Reform Mired in Philosophical Differences
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Aline Cunico interviews MARC ROSENBLUM of the Migration Policy Institute NEW YORK, Apr 12, 2011 (IPS) – As Alabama became the latest U.S. state to...
View ArticlePrison Lobbyists Help Spread Anti-Immigrant Laws to U.S. South
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Matthew Cardinale ATLANTA, Georgia, May 26, 2011 (IPS) – Earlier this month, Georgia became the third state to enact some of the most anti-immigrant...
View ArticleUrban Transformation for Interethnic Cities
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marina Lalovic ROME, Jun 7, 2011 (IPS) – Urban centres, marked by globalisation, migration and the intermingling of culturally and ethnically diverse...
View ArticleITALY: Refugees Find Easier Reception, For Now
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Matt Carr LAMPEDUSA, Italy, Jun 21, 2011 (IPS) – It’s 4.30 in the morning and the full moon is low in the sky above Lampedusa harbour as the Guardia...
View ArticleARGENTINA: Deep-Rooted Prejudice Against Immigrants
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Jun 24, 2011 (IPS) – Although Argentina’s immigration law is regarded as one of the most progressive in Latin America,...
View ArticleU.S.-Mexico Border Build-Up Found Excessive
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Apr 19, 2012 (IPS) – While Republican politicians and other "border hawks" call for ever-tougher measures to secure the...
View ArticleImmigrants’ Fear Palpable in Arizona
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Daniela Pastrana TUCSON, Arizona, Aug 18 2012 (IPS) – Fear stalks the streets in the U.S. state of Arizona. Seven-year-old Matthew feels it when his...
View ArticleArgentina – The Promised Land for South American Neighbours
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Stephanie Wildes BUENOS AIRES, Aug 28 (IPS) – "The new buildings in the Argentine capital were built by Paraguayans,” Isidro Méndez says with some...
View ArticleIrregular Migrants Face the Boot in Greece
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, Aug 29 (IPS) – A crackdown on irregular migration has entered its fourth week in Greece. The government is shutting the...
View ArticleImmigration Reform May Be Big Winner in U.S. Elections
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON, Nov 08 (IPS) – In the aftermath of a surprisingly lopsided victory for President Barack Obama’s Democratic Party and for...
View ArticleIt Was the Demography, Stupid
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Nov 09 (IPS) – Twenty years ago, Democratic pol James Carville immortalised the phrase “It’s the economy, stupid” in explaining how...
View ArticleIceland Tackles ‘Invisible’ Trafficking
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Lowana Veal REYKJAVIK, Dic 27 (IPS) – For 18 months, a Chinese immigrant named Xing Haiou slept on a massage table in a windowless room in Reykjavik...
View ArticleThink Tank Urges “More Ambitious” U.S.-Mexican Agenda
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Border leading into the desert at the Mariposa port-of-entry. Credit: Jeb Sprague/IPS Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Feb 06 (IPS) – The electoral and political...
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