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04 Feb 2012


Economist Daniel Sullivan shows that involuntarily job displacement doubled the short-term mortality rates of those displaced
[The Hamilton Project, April 2010]
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Immigration

Skilled immigrants / Talents

Foreign talents are coming

Italy February 03, 2012

In Italy, it was published in the Official Gazette the decree setting to 48,806 the number of visas and residence permits that may be issued to foreigners for the access to university and high artistic training courses, for the academic year 2011-2012.
Child care services, Foreign minors, illegal immigration

Nursery schools open to illegal immigrants

Italy February 03, 2012

Milan opens the doors of its kindergartens to the children of immigrants without residence permit. This is one of the main changes contained in the municipal circular letter which establishes the criteria for the registration of children in the nursery schools for the year 2012/2013. In the text of the [...]
Refugees, Asylum seekers

Home sweet home

Belgium February 03, 2012

In Belgium there is a boom of assisted voluntary returns. In 2011, immigrants who have decided to return to the motherland have reached a record level of 3,400: +14% over the previous year. A phenomenon that, in addition to the severe economic crisis, is due in particular to the success [...]
Fundamental rights, citizenship and nationality, Second generation

Becoming citizen of Milan

Italy February 02, 2012

In Milan, in 2011, the grants of citizenship to immigrants’ children born in Italy increased by 39.1% over the previous year. For a total of 458 out of 479 entitled people. The new citizens are predominantly Philippine (163 youths), Egyptian (105), Chinese (94) and Peruvian (22). These are some of [...]
Refugees, Asylum seekers, illegal immigration

Immigration by sea

E.U.Italy February 01, 2012

In 2011, more than 58,000 immigrants arrived in Europe through the Mediterranean Sea. A new record that exceeds the previous one of 2008: 54,000. To be noted that the vast majority of them landed on Italian shores: 56,000, of which 28,000 from Tunisia. These are some of the figures recently [...]
Refugees, Asylum seekers

Home sweet home

Belgium February 03, 2012

In Belgium there is a boom of assisted voluntary returns. In 2011, immigrants who have decided to return to the motherland have reached a record level of 3,400: +14% over the previous year. A phenomenon that, in addition to the severe economic crisis, is due in particular to the success [...]
Integration and reception

Fines to immigrants

Belgium January 26, 2012

925 administrative fines have been given by the Flemish government in Belgium to immigrants who attended less than 80% lessons of civic integration courses. The news comes from Geert Bourgeois, minister for Civic Integration. Actually a compulsory program called “inburgering” is required to all foreigners (non-EU contries) who decide to [...]
Skilled immigrants / Talents

Immigration is not the cure

Belgium December 09, 2011

In Belgium, the hunt for foreign healthcare professionals is becoming a real business. In order to try to cope with staff shortages in the health sector, in fact, many recruitment agencies have begun to recruit doctors and nurses from abroad. The key countries where medical personnel have been recruited are [...]
Trafficking in human beings

Immigrants in the hands of Cosa Nostra

BelgiumE.U. October 19, 2011

Criminal organizations in Europe managing the human trafficking have diversified their business. No longer limited to prostitution, but also to other sectors such as catering and construction. The victims are lured to their countries of origin using sophisticated tricks. Often, criminal people present themselves as employees of employment agencies and [...]
Skilled immigrants / Talents, Work permit

A new Belgian record

Belgium September 09, 2011

In Belgium, the bureaucratic procedures for obtaining a work permit for highly qualified workers are unmatched in Europe. Efficiency and speed are on the agenda in this state without a government. At the point of being a real magnet for excellencies minds around the world. It is what emerges from the study by Deloitte, conducted on a biennial basis, which indicates the timing required to get permission in some European countries. While in Brussels it takes three weeks to get it, in [...]
Refugees, Asylum seekers, illegal immigration

Immigration by sea

E.U.Italy February 01, 2012

In 2011, more than 58,000 immigrants arrived in Europe through the Mediterranean Sea. A new record that exceeds the previous one of 2008: 54,000. To be noted that the vast majority of them landed on Italian shores: 56,000, of which 28,000 from Tunisia. These are some of the figures recently [...]
Second generation

It comes to my mind

E.U. January 17, 2012

Among those who have experienced, especially at an early age, migration it is more likely to suffer from a psychotic disorder. It is the result of a study conducted in the Netherlands. It is not surprising for the higher incidence of this disease among immigrants compared to the natives, but [...]
Integration and reception

A hand to the states

E.U. January 13, 2012

€ 826 million has been earmarked by the European Union for the integration of immigrants in all spheres of society. The fund covers the period 2007-2013 and aims to support efforts by member states in this difficult field.
Schengen

Warning immigration

E.U. December 23, 2011

A new migratory tsunami is likely to fall on the Old Continent. But this time the danger doesn’t comes from the Maghreb, but that's incredible, from Liechtenstein. With its 36 thousand inhabitants, in fact, the small state nestled between Austria and Switzerland officially joined the Schengen area. This means that [...]
Integration and reception

Remittances do not know crisis

E.U.ItalySpain December 14, 2011

While the city burns, there is always someone playing the harp. Surprisingly, however, are the immigrants in the European Union to have suffered less from the setbacks of the current economic crisis. The latest Eurostat data on remittances are clear. In 2010, foreign residents in Europe have sent to their [...]
Fundamental rights, citizenship and nationality

2) Le Pen phenomenon

France January 31, 2012 - by Giuseppe Terranova

Two months before France's presidential election, Front National continues to rise in the polls, registering its best historical result. It is an unexpected success, especially if we consider that it was only one year ago that Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder and undisputed leader of the party, retired from political [...]
Fundamental rights, citizenship and nationality

1) Marine Le Pen, the new Circe enchantress

France January 27, 2012 - by Giuseppe Terranova

Twelve months after Front National established its leadership and four months before next presidential election, Marine Le Pen may represent a real shift in the French political landscape. Not only for the wide and strong citizens' approval it obtained, confirmed by a recent TNS Sofres survey, but also because, within [...]
Integration and reception

Separated but in peace

France January 12, 2012

Few details are missing to complete the Muslim cemetery in Strasbourg. The first in the history of the French Republic, to be funded with public money: € 800 thousand invested by the local government. It will be open on February 6 and, on a land of 1 ha in the [...]
Visa and residence permit, illegal immigration

My heart is à droite

France January 11, 2012

Nicolas Sarkozy is working in sight of the next election betting everything on immigration. The objective is to stop the Front National Party and its leader Marine Le Pen. This is one of the reasons why the French Secretary of the Interior Claude Guéant has announced pompously that the number [...]
Integration and reception

Immigration, opportunities or problems?

FranceGermanyItalySpainUnited Kingdom December 16, 2011

From the report "Transatlantic Trends: Immigration in 2011" comes through loud and clear criticism of the citizens of Germany, Italy, UK, France and Spain, with regard to migration policies put in place by their respective Governments. However, the majority sees the central state as subject that must engage in this delicate matter. Then, for 52% migration is a complication in the contemporary social landscape, but the same percentage is highly optimistic about integration. Moreover a significant number of citizens are [...]
Refugees, Asylum seekers

German refuge

Germany January 30, 2012

In 2011, in Germany the number of asylum seekers has risen by almost 11% over the previous year. On 45.741 presented requests more than 7 thousand were successfully accepted. Afghanistan remains the first country of origin, but both Syria (+76%) and Pakistan (+202%) showed a strong increase compared to 2010. [...]
Integration and reception

Integration courses, try to believe

Germany January 27, 2012

The detractors of integration courses for immigrants have to think again. They are in fact "an indispensable business card for entry into the society and especially in the labor market of the host country". It declares that the vast majority of newcomers who frequented them in Germany. So much so [...]
Integration and reception

Immigration, a step forward and two steps back

Germany January 19, 2012

Every light has its shadow. The German government presented last week the second “Integrationsindikatorenbericht”, a detailed report about the situation of 16 million of immigrants belonging to both the first and the second generation. According to the report, on the hand the unemployment rate among immigrants is lower than in [...]
Dependant older people, Long term care, Long-term residents

Multicultural healthcare

Germany January 12, 2012

The first generation of Muslim immigrants in Germany is aging and in need of care. To try to answer this new emergency in Berlin just opened the International Hospital of Kreuzberg, reserved only for patients with dementia who have Turkish or Arab origins. Specific feature of this structure is to [...]
Visa and residence permit

People going, people coming

Germany December 19, 2011

115 thousand are the Germans who, in 2010, chose to come back home after staying abroad. 14.4% of 800 thousand people who, in the same year, emigrated in Germany. With a 11% increase over 2009. At the same time, emigration to foreign countries has declined (670 thousand in 2010, compared [...]
Asylum

Nearly all asylum requests rejected

Ireland April 04, 2011

In 2010 Irish authorities rejected 98% of asylum claims. According to Eurostat only 25 applicants out of 1,600 have been granted refugees status.
Immigration, Social protection

Immigrants without Welfare

Ireland March 30, 2011

9,000 migrants were refused social welfare payments in Ireland last year because they failed to meet the required residency standards.
Immigration

Land of emigrants

Ireland December 27, 2010

According to government estimates, at least 100 thousand people will leave Ireland in the coming four years. A figure that transforms the island of Joyce in the country with the highest rate of migrants in Western Europe, amounting to almost 2% of the population.   
Demography, Family, Immigration, Poverty

The new Irish famine

Ireland October 12, 2010 - by Meabh McMahon

Once Ireland was regarded as an admirable tiger. Today its image has been reduced to a disgruntled PIG. Back in September 2008, Ireland became the first EU country to officially enter a recession in a public declaration and two years later there are still no signs of light at the [...]
Immigration

Irish Brains emigrate

Ireland August 25, 2010

In Ireland in 2009 about 9% of graduates with the highest votes would be transferred abroad for professional reasons. According to data released by the Higher Education Authority had they were just 5% the previous year and four times less now than in 2007. This confirm that because of the [...]
Skilled immigrants / Talents

Foreign talents are coming

Italy February 03, 2012

In Italy, it was published in the Official Gazette the decree setting to 48,806 the number of visas and residence permits that may be issued to foreigners for the access to university and high artistic training courses, for the academic year 2011-2012.
Child care services, Foreign minors, illegal immigration

Nursery schools open to illegal immigrants

Italy February 03, 2012

Milan opens the doors of its kindergartens to the children of immigrants without residence permit. This is one of the main changes contained in the municipal circular letter which establishes the criteria for the registration of children in the nursery schools for the year 2012/2013. In the text of the [...]
Fundamental rights, citizenship and nationality, Second generation

Becoming citizen of Milan

Italy February 02, 2012

In Milan, in 2011, the grants of citizenship to immigrants’ children born in Italy increased by 39.1% over the previous year. For a total of 458 out of 479 entitled people. The new citizens are predominantly Philippine (163 youths), Egyptian (105), Chinese (94) and Peruvian (22). These are some of [...]
Refugees, Asylum seekers, illegal immigration

Immigration by sea

E.U.Italy February 01, 2012

In 2011, more than 58,000 immigrants arrived in Europe through the Mediterranean Sea. A new record that exceeds the previous one of 2008: 54,000. To be noted that the vast majority of them landed on Italian shores: 56,000, of which 28,000 from Tunisia. These are some of the figures recently [...]
Ethnic business

Rules for doing business

Italy January 31, 2012

A guide produced by the Prefecture of Florence, in collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce, explains to the immigrants how doing business in full compliance with rules. The handbook answers, among others, to questions such as: Why should I work with a regular contract? What are the benefits I am [...]
Multilingualism and intercultural dialogue

Romania, studying in mother tongue

Romania November 19, 2010

The Romanian Senate adopted yesterday a proposal to modify an older Romanian law in a way that would allow adults from national minorities to get vocational training in their mother tongue. Although the Romanian Constitution gives the right to people belonging to national minorities to study in their mother tongue, [...]
Immigration

Romanians in Italy

ItalyRomania October 22, 2010

4% of Romanian population is living in Italy as of the 1st of January 2010, according to the data published by the Romanian National Institute for Statistics.  That means that 880 thousand Romanian citizens were registered with the Italian municipalities. However, as many of the Romanians living and working in [...]
Anti discrimination, Ethnic group, Immigration

Roma people between Bucharest and Paris

FranceRomania August 04, 2010

The Romanian Government has appointed Valentin Mocanu State Secretary to resolve the thorny issue of the Roma in relations with France. A decision, made after that last July 26 the Government of Sarkozy threatened the new EU members, during the meeting of foreign eu ministers, to block its adhesion to [...]
Ethnic business, Integration and reception

The Chinese VAT

Spain January 30, 2012

It is a crisis time, you know, but not for Chinese immigrants resident in Spain. In 2011 only as much as 45% of new members to the National Register of workers with VAT came right from the Celestial Empire. This explains why, especially in large Spanish cities, among the entrepreneurs [...]
Integration and reception

Immigration, opportunities or problems?

FranceGermanyItalySpainUnited Kingdom December 16, 2011

From the report "Transatlantic Trends: Immigration in 2011" comes through loud and clear criticism of the citizens of Germany, Italy, UK, France and Spain, with regard to migration policies put in place by their respective Governments. However, the majority sees the central state as subject that must engage in this delicate matter. Then, for 52% migration is a complication in the contemporary social landscape, but the same percentage is highly optimistic about integration. Moreover a significant number of citizens are [...]
Integration and reception

Remittances do not know crisis

E.U.ItalySpain December 14, 2011

While the city burns, there is always someone playing the harp. Surprisingly, however, are the immigrants in the European Union to have suffered less from the setbacks of the current economic crisis. The latest Eurostat data on remittances are clear. In 2010, foreign residents in Europe have sent to their [...]
Integration and reception

Buying a house is not easy

Spain November 29, 2011

In Spain, only 27% of non-EU immigrants has owned a house. Against 85% of the native population. Almost half of the foreigners, then, is at risk of poverty. These are the figures that emerge from a study presented by EAE Business School.
Life of families, Trafficking in human beings

Spain, gold medal of prostitution

Spain October 31, 2011

39% of Spanish men usually attends a prostitute. The highest percentage of the entire EU. In this special classification follow the Swiss (19%). The lowest number is recorded, however, in Sweden, as a probable consequence of a well-established law that provides penalties also for customers. This was announced by the [...]
Child pornography, pedophilia and trafficking, Integration and reception

Young witches

United Kingdom January 23, 2012

In the United Kingdom, since 2000, there were 74 official cases of child abuse linked to witchcraft. According to the latest official study, three quarters of the known facts occurred in London and the children were mostly of African ethnicity. The alarm is raised by the African group Unite Against [...]
Skilled immigrants / Talents

Sorry, I don’t understand

United Kingdom January 16, 2012

Ask for help to the emergency room and be told "I do not understand". This is not the misfortune of an Italian tourist in London, but one of many medical malpractice of which are victims British citizens themselves. Strange, but true. In many hospitals of Her Majesty, in fact, health [...]
Integration and reception

Immigration-unemployment, a controversial link

United Kingdom January 11, 2012

There is no link between rising immigration and rising unemployment. This is, briefly, the conclusion of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. That found  no association between higher immigration and joblessness. In fact, the Institute's researchers suggested that the opposite might be the case and that immigration acts [...]
Integration and reception, Tuberculosis

Later discoveries

United Kingdom December 22, 2011

In the United Kingdom, 2 years is the minimum time after which an immigrant discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. In 2010, 75% of those who suffered from this disease was foreign born. In addition to the high incidence of diseases such as HIV, hepatitis, malaria and TB among [...]
Integration and reception

Immigration, opportunities or problems?

FranceGermanyItalySpainUnited Kingdom December 16, 2011

From the report "Transatlantic Trends: Immigration in 2011" comes through loud and clear criticism of the citizens of Germany, Italy, UK, France and Spain, with regard to migration policies put in place by their respective Governments. However, the majority sees the central state as subject that must engage in this delicate matter. Then, for 52% migration is a complication in the contemporary social landscape, but the same percentage is highly optimistic about integration. Moreover a significant number of citizens are [...]
Fundamental rights, citizenship and nationality

2) Democracy, easier said than done

World December 20, 2011 - by Mattia Rosini

It is not simple to build a democratic country. Tunisia is trying to do so after the January revolution, which caused the fall of the twenty-year Ben Ali's regime and his escape to Saudi Arabia. This is what we discuss with Hamza Chourabi, the president of the association Demokratie Tunesien, [...]
Fundamental rights, citizenship and nationality

1) Tunisia, a year after

World December 17, 2011 - by Mattia Rosini

Everything started one year ago. The nth police abuse of power, the usual neglect of institutions, a country – Tunisia – governed for more than twenty years by the same person, President Ben Alì, who had established a corrupt and brutal regime. For Mohammed Bouazizi that was too much, the [...]
Integration and reception

The American Dream at crossroads

World October 10, 2011 - by Guido Bolaffi

The Dream Act signed last Saturday by Jerry Brown, the governor of California, allows irregular foreign but deserving students to benefit from public grants. Through this Act, California takes a stand in the power play concerning immigration, which has paralyzed and divided the US over the last years. As for [...]
Integration and reception

From Kosovo with love

World September 13, 2011 - by Mattia Rosini

One shoot is enough, to rekindle the nationalism. Afërdita Dreshaj does know it well, as she posted on her facebook wall a photo together with Anja Saranovic; two girls who friendly embrace themselves, as many others do. But it is not so. Afërdita is miss Kosovo, Anja is miss Serbia; so [...]
illegal immigration

Immigration turn over the page

World August 31, 2011 - by Giuseppe Terranova

Among the many revolutions that have taken place in 2011, one was almost ignored: for the first time in the last sixty years the illegal migration flow towards the U.S. of Mexicans came to a halt. We discuss it with Douglas Massey, Professor of Sociology at the Priceton University and [...]