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BEIJING —  At 53, Guan Junling is too old to get hired at factories anymore. But for migrant workers like her, not working is not an option. For decades, they have come from farming villages to find work in the cities. Toiling in…

BEIJING —  At 53, Guan Junling is too old to get hired at factories anymore. But for migrant workers like her, not working is not an option. For decades, they have come from farming villages to find work in the cities. Toiling in…

Representatives of the European Union, Ministry of Labour and United Nations with participants at the PROTECT project launch. © ILO Bangkok, 26 March 2024 - The European Union (EU) announces a financial support of € 13 million to the…

Last year was the deadliest on record, with 8,541 migrant victims. Nearly 60 per cent of deaths were linked to drowning.  So far in 2024, the trends are just as alarming. Along the Mediterranean sea route alone – while arrivals this year…

1. IntroductionAccording to the International Organization for Migration, the global population of international migrants reached nearly 281 million people in 2020, accounting for approximately 3.6% of the world’s population . The…

Texas has upped its fight to make a controversial new law — which would allow local authorities to arrest and detain migrants — enforceable. The law has been the subject of an ongoing legal battle, with the United States Supreme Court…

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Announcements that City Hall is reversing widespread municipal budget cuts have overshadowed the flip side of the coin, which is that Mayor Adams and Budget Director Jacques Jiha are moving to trim spending 10% from migrant services,…

South Africa has made massive strides in the fight against HIV. One of the country’s flagship interventions has been the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV. Nevertheless, South Africa still has the world’s…

Eight other people were injured and 21 were rescued by Malta’s armed forces.Five people have died and eight others were injured after the boat they were in capsized during a rescue operation by armed forces from Malta off the…

Mayor Adams pushed back Tuesday on new state legislation that seeks to outlaw the 30- and 60-day limits his administration has put on migrants staying in New York City shelters, saying his policies constitute a “successful humanitarian…

New York —  New York is expanding a curfew to additional migrant shelters after violent incidents attributed to migrant shelter residents gained national attention in recent weeks. Mayor Eric Adams' administration will impose an 11…

The twisted fiasco surrounding the Guardian Angels’ takedown of a Bronx man in Times Square — who their controversial boss Curtis Sliwa erroneously called a “migrant” and a “shoplifter” — took a new turn Friday when a woman Guardian…

EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — As more than a dozen Republican governors gathered Sunday on the Texas border, Kyle Willis was across the river in Mexico considering his next move to enter the U.S.The 23-year-old Jamaican, who said he…

1. IntroductionRegional development is conducive to promoting economic development, and the relevant literature on regional development shows that regional talent allocation has a positive impact on high-quality economic development .…

1. IntroductionIndividuals undergoing physical, environmental/territorial, and sociocultural changes due to their transition from their current living spaces to other locations face numerous challenges. These transitions often occur for…

January 22, 2024 – Children detained for a prolonged period in family immigration detention centers in the U.S. are experiencing mental and physical harm due to inadequate and inappropriate medical care, according to a new report. The…

Since 1 January, in Kabul and Daykundi provinces, UNAMA has documented a series of hijab decree enforcement campaigns by the de facto Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, aided by Taliban police units.In the…

New York City won’t freeze hiring of police officers or lay off disabled firefighters this fiscal year after all, Mayor Adams announced Wednesday, saying he’s able to call off the planned NYPD and FDNY cuts thanks to “better than…

Two more suspects have been charged in the stabbing death of a Venezuelan man waiting in the food line at the Randalls Island migrant shelter, police said Tuesday. Ferneys Horta, 33, is charged with murder and and Anthony Havas, 27, is…

Few places in New York City capture the cruelty of Mayor Adams’ recent policy to deny shelter to people seeking asylum like the line snaking around St. Brigid, an intake center on the Lower East Side where immigrants who still have no…

This week, Mayor Adams lamented in a TV interview that the city “can’t even turn over to ICE,” a head-scratching statement from a New York mayor. Perhaps Adams could claim that he was only alluding to those migrants that have committed…

MEXICO CITY —  A top U.S. delegation is meeting with Mexico's president Wednesday in what many see as an attempt to have Mexico do more to limit a surge of migrants reaching the U.S. southwestern border. Mexican President Andres Manuel…

Lingnan University study shows unfair representation of MDW in mistreatment cases in Chinese media. Credit: Lingnan University Most…

Millions of migrants leave developing countries as temporary labor migrants annually. Access to so-called “guest worker" markets can allow countries to cope with origin shocks by enabling a migration response. The key feature of…