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Migrants working in the 30-OECD nations come from all over the world - in the case of the United States, many hail from Latin America.

Most of the migrants trying to reach Australia this year are escaping fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

But it was a condescending stunt whose subtext seemed to be that singing was the best migrants' children could aspire to.

Well-off locals would buy a second home so they could rent it out to migrants from other parts of the country.

From Beijing's perspective and that of the migrants, they are bringing money and progress to an underdeveloped region.

More than 200 African migrants trying to reach Europe were thought to have drowned off the coast of Libya.

Similarly a survey in Ireland late last year suggested that of 200, 000 Polish migrants, around a third expected to leave within a year.

So the first applicants have come mostly from migrants from Laos and Cambodia, where the authorities are more willing to help.

Most migrants seem to see a foreign passport as insurance against the worst-case scenario rather than as a complete abandonment of China.

And today, as you mention, there are still plenty of migrants coming out of the countryside into the cities to look for work.

the poor, the migrants, and the men who do nothing but spend their money on prostitutes.

Fan earns less than $250 a month, and he and his wife, migrants from rural Henan province, pay $120 a month in rent.

If all the migrants were to leave, Beijing would grind to a halt.

Since May, Egyptian border guards have killed at least 17 migrants trying to cross into Israel.

They were at first assumed to be drug traffickers, but were subsequently identified as migrants trying to reach the United States.

There are other long-term costs, including the fact that the children of these rural migrants failed at schools.

In the name of improving safety, it has started closing down basement dwellings where migrants (known as the rat tribe) often live.

Mr. Liu and his wife were much like any of the other millions and millions of migrants who have moved to cities all across China.

GIFFORD: Just five years ago, Sun was one of the army of migrants following the well-beaten path from countryside to city.

Thousands of trucks have been stranded by the side of the road, one main source of transportation for movement among migrants.

But just as EU accession has made it easier for workers to move west , it has made life harder for would -be migrants from further east .

If migrants were a nation, they would be the world's fifth-largest, a bit more numerous than Brazilians, a little less so than Indonesians.

Migrants, he said, had mostly filled gaps in the labour market left by a welfare system that "paid British people not to work" .

The Italians are particularly unhappy with the French who've been blocking hundreds of the migrants trying to cross the border from Italy.

More than three-quarters were migrants returning from, or trying to get into, the United States.

Used to the hardship of the farm and the lack of privilege, migrants seem to be taking the new controls in their stride.

Tian Kun, a lawyer who has been trying to help the migrants, says that forcing them out will exacerbate social tensions in the capital.

ANNOUNCER: Thousands of would be migrants are taking advantage of summer weather and calm seas to try to cross from Africa to Europe.

It might be possible to create financial incentives for migrants to leave at the end of their contract period.

By improving the quality of education of children of migrants, such a migration pattern will also be good for long term productivity growth.

Migrants have no real guarantee that these tiny unregulated operators will send the money to its intended destination.

although quite a few have moved out of their old town premises and rented them to Han Chinese migrants for shops and restaurants.

Within this system, the crisis can only be solved at the expense of the working class, the peasants, the poor, the migrants and youth.

And the transient nature of seasonal working means that the migrants themselves have failed to organise.

Sources close to the Minister say the delay is not related to concerns over such a payment being made available to children of EU migrants.

It's said the men kidnapped around 50 migrants who'd stowed away on the train.

It also found that migration improved the height and weight of the children of Pakistani and central American migrants.

Up to 6m work permits are to be available this year for migrants from the poor ex-Soviet republics.

When migration is made legal and easy, many migrants choose to go home after a year or two.

MARRIAGE between people of different backgrounds is one of the best barometers of social integration, especially for migrants.

The new apartment buildings going up in hundreds of cities will employ workers now and will later become homes for rural migrants.

While rich cities fret over a relatively modest ebb and flow of population, poor cities must cope with a tidal wave of migrants.

France has announced it will close an illegal camp in the border of Calais used by migrants trying to get into Britain.

Yiwu vehicles is an indisputable fact, believe that only through the expansion to be resolved, Yiwu, Yiwu, after all, too many migrants.

At least 80 African migrants were feared drowned Monday after their boats capsized off the coast of Yemen, authorities there reported.

Migrants get out of taxes in their countries of origin and face new taxes at their destination .

The absence of a proper system for recording the flow of migrants, and for preventing illegal entry, is troubling.

Not like the Mon-Khmer native to the Peninsula, the Daic populations were considered to be migrants from the north.

She was "a bit frightened" when she arrived alone and like many migrants she can still feel vulnerable in the big city.

And it is just one of many African firms that use migrants as their eyes and ears in distant lands.

It had become a dumping ground for migrants, cut off from everything.

Migrants can work months and then be cheated out of any pay by a corrupt foreman.

The most significant bit of the convention is the recognition accorded to climate-change migrants.

THE points system for skilled migrants that notoriously preferred hairdressers over Harvard scientists is about to be abolished.

Franklin says, Portland has continued to draw migrants through the recession.

Just as in the United States a century ago, jobs are needed for vast numbers of rural migrants moving into cities.

Heavy fighting continues, raising the prospect that the flow of migrants into Niger will continue as well.

These were newly arrived migrants were most likely tired, hungry and trying to feed.

Even without a hukou, migrants no longer need to present ration coupons to get food and clothing as long as they have the money.

Part of the growth is as a result of legal migrants from China, part of the growth is, of course, natural birth.

This means that even if land trading were to be liberalized, many peasants (or migrants with rural hukou) still could not cash in fully.

Ever since 2002, when America began to recover from a mild economic downturn, migrants both legal and illegal have streamed over the border.

Venice happens to have one of the largest concentrations of migrants from Oaxaca anywhere outside of Mexico.

Italy is cracking down on illegal immigration and under an agreement with Libya has begun sending boatloads of migrants back to Africa.

We started out with inviting any homeless person but are now limiting our offer to refugees and migrants.

To a partial but unknown extent some of the higher education of the migrants results from education obtained after their move to the city.

Recession and tighter security on the northern border may have reduced the flow of migrants entering the United States.

Europe's commissioner for justice and home affairs, Franco Frattini, wants to see more temporary migrants in the EU.

But Thailand has not lifted its threat to arrest and deport migrants who do not comply by the new deadline.

As part of this illegal migration, smugglers ferry fee-paying migrants from Albania across the Adriatic to Italy in speedboats.

Hundreds of migrants have died in the past few months trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea in flimsy boats.

On her visit to Mexico, U. N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay looked into problems including abuse of migrants and women.

Still, the speed with which rural migrants and newborns are adding to already jammed cities gives cause for concern.

Sheikh Hafizuddin, 38, lives in a slum with a few hundred other migrants less than two miles from Cyber City.

When migrants returned to plant their fields in July, the malnutrition wards began to fill up at the district hospital.

The pair reckon that nowadays 39% of domestic helpers in Britain are men, up from 17% in the early 1990s; in London, many are also migrants.

The point is to encourage migrants to be legal.

The migrants murdered in Tamaulipas are believed to have been murdered after refusing to work for the narcos.

Manchester grew at an astonishing rate, and its booming economy attracted migrants from all over Britain.

These migrants, just like the peasant Big-Foot girls, are eager to bind their feet, to gentrify themselves physically and mentally.

IOM spokeswoman Pandya says transporting migrants out of the capital by road would be faster and more economical than by sea.

Two hundred million people out of a working population of nearly 800 million are migrants, chafing at their lowly status and rotten wages.

Millions of jobless migrants may well remain in cities, if not protesting then at least pushing up crime rates.

Although hard times may change migrants' destinations, they do not sap the will to move in search of a better life.

At least in the recent past, the French authorities turned a blind eye to polygamy among north African migrants.

A week ago, an Italian naval vessel intercepted three boats full of migrants.

The bulk of the migrants, 60% or more, have only nine years of education; people with technical diplomas are rare.

Such remittances are important, says Dilip Ratha of the World Bank, but it is not enough to tap the income of migrants abroad.

The Prime Minister is due to express the Government's regrets over the child migrants programme in a statement to the House of Commons.

Migrants around the world will risk everything for the next generation.

And Mr Berlusconi acknowledged that France, in fact, absorbs five times as many migrants a year as Italy.

Thousands of young desperate Somali [migrants] continue to risk their lives in the sea in search of a better life abroad.

According to Guangdong government figures, about half of the province's 19m migrants did not return home for the festival.

Mexico, a vocal advocate of migrants' rights in the United States, has taken steps to reduce risks for migrants within its own borders.

And Britain's appeal as a destination for migrants, legal or not, will depend on how its job market weathers the recession.

In the context of a province with a total population of 110m, half a million migrants is a sizeable but still manageable army of unemployed.

Eastern Europe, it is worth noting, will have to make up for those going west by itself taking in more migrants from farther afield.

The book centers on the journeys of three black migrants, each representing a different decade and a different destination.

It is trying to match up our needs with the migrants coming through.

They see their homeland being stripped of oil, gas, coal and now young people, particularly women, who make up the majority of the migrants.

Despite these unending tribulations and absorbing close to 4 million migrants from all parts of the world, Israel prospered mightily.

So the flow of migrants from inland China can no longer be counted on infinitely to expand manufacturing capacity on the coast.

Within a few years Congress, overturning a veto by President Woodrow Wilson, passed laws that sharply cut the inflow of migrants.

In the early 20th century, thousands of Japanese economic migrants sought a new life across the Pacific in Brazil.

So called "snakehead" gangs have beenresponsible for smuggling thousands of illegal migrants out of China into HongKong every year.

Many of these migrants are failing to integrate with their host communities. Some do not even bother learning the local language.

The ECJ irritated it recently by ruling against its policy of jailing illegal migrants who do not obey expulsion orders.

Pedaled by migrants from neighboring provinces like Shanxi and Anhui, they are cheap and a fun way to see the city.

In the western district of Kreuzberg, Turkish migrants and their prayers have been part of the scene for decades.

Non-Maratha migrants, Muslims and foreign cricketers, Pakistani and Australian, have all been targets of his tirades.

These migrants are part of an epic human tide that is redrawing the map of China, just as migration transformed the American heartland.

Egypt and Israel - Egyptian border guards shot dead at least 28 migrants attempting to cross the Sinai border into Israel.

At least six naval and chartered ships are being used by the government to take the migrants to transit camps on the mainland.

Usually a family member already on the other side will pick the migrants up in a car.

The Philippines, perhaps best-known in recent years for its outgoing migrants, has become a destination for immigrants in its own right.

Most of the migrants said they would keep trying to get to Britain.

As a weak group of our society, the rural migrants catch universal attentions of many news media.

HRW says it has evidence of migrants returning to Libya being put in indefinite detention, where some have been mistreated.

Were migrants to vanish in the meantime, it might save the government's face, but it would be a great loss to Britain.

It notes most of the doctors and nurses on staff had been Egyptian migrants who returned home at the start of the crisis.

Some studies also suggest that increased inflows of migrants are a leading indicator of a pickup in growth.

The station is a main funnel point for migrants travelling in and out of the Pearl River delta manufacturing region.

Mandarin is the main language in Shenzhen because of the migrants. Cantonese is only a dialect here.

The Obama administration has promised to clamp down on cross-border flows of drugs, guns and migrants.

With unemployment quickly rising, the long-term fate of rural-to-urban migrants remains largely unknown.

The Italian government has declared a special state of emergency to cope with the humanitarian needs of the migrants.

The move is in response to the influx of thousands of migrants fleeing the upheaval in Libya and Tunisia.

By participating actively in infrastructure projects, migrants' clubs have brought much-needed accountability to the public sector.

Other reasons why migrants run away is that they were going to be arbitrarily repatriated and their employment contracts have expired.

Migrants are finding jobs closer to home as the poor interior provinces become more prosperous.

If boom leads to bust, recent history suggests that locals might take out their frustrations on migrants who appear to be prospering.

His reasoning is echoed across Brazil, especially among the rural poor and migrants to the big cities.

It had a positive balance of about 1m highly skilled migrants with the EU15 (member countries prior to 2004).

Employers, including the public sector, have grown used to cheap and flexible migrants.

When America admits migrants, it is not diluting its own culture, but spreading its ideals across the world.

The economy was spurred by a continuous flow of urban migrants and rising levels of fixed asset investment.

The flow of migrants was intensified last week when Czechoslovakia also granted free access to West Germany through its border.

Yet even in Britain the ground may be shifting, as the press fills with shrill stories about new migrants from central and eastern Europe.

Finally, migrants may return home, often with skills that would have been hard to pick up had they never gone abroad.

The survivors, mostly migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, were taken to a camp along the border with Libya.

The registration system (hukou, in Chinese) was originally intended to stop rural migrants flowing into the cities.

It has tried to close migrants' schools before, but not since 2006 on such a scale.

While Albania was long considered a source of smuggled migrants and a transit country from the East to the West, this has recently changed.

The International Organisation for Migration says it's evacuating thousands of Ethiopian migrants who've been trapped in Yemen.

Have MENA migrants been able to demonstrate their potential value in the global labor market?

The train and bus stations of Victoria, where many migrants arrive to seek their fortunes, are even closer.

More than 50 people have been killed since violent attacks against migrants and refugees broke out in South Africa on May 11.

These migrants were discriminated against, the report said. "If mishandled, this situation will create a major destabilising threat. "

A boat carrying more than 250 illegal migrants heading for Europe is reported to have sunk off the Libyan coast.

But already, the financial crisis is hitting hard. Factories closed along the Thai-Burmese border are sending many migrants packing.

Most of the migrants who throng London's churches are doing better than the occupants of The Passage, but sometimes not much.

The most common migrants are the wades of the sandpiper family, but they also include other birds ranging in size from herons to shrikes .

Around the fifth century, Taoism was introduced into Xinjiang from inland China by Han migrants.

Third, it would be easier for economic migrants to get in, restraining wage inflation.

The top occupations in the skilled migrants stream were accountants, computing professionals, cooks and registered nurses.

Its Money Exchange division was set up in 1981 to handle migrants' remittances from the kingdom.

But with unemployment high and the pound low, Britain is no longer as attractive a destination and some migrants are returning home.

The city, with a population of about 3m at the hub of the country's richest province, is a magnet for rural and foreign migrants.

Thai officials, calling them economic migrants, blocked most from applying for sanctuary via the United Nations' refugee agency, UNHCR.

Police in Mexico have confirmed that the murder victims from a mass killing near the US border were foreign migrants.

neither can we know to what extent the descendants of migrants will change or adapt by living in secular societies.

Also, since migrants are less likely to be settled and therefore can go where jobs are plentiful.

In contrast with recession-battered places like Phoenix, Houston remains remarkably open to migrants from the rest of America and abroad.

Migrants from the most populous but less developed Chinese inland provinces can be particularly victim to these prejudices.

An abundance of poorly paid migrants means less incentive to upgrade to a more skilled workforce.

For these economic migrants, the main attraction of working abroad was the pay.

Crucially the points system means only the migrants with the skills Britain needs can come - and no more.

My government will limit the number of non-European Union economic migrants entering the United Kingdom.

Younger migrants who prefer indoor pursuits, such as the arts or clubbing, seem to struggle.

"As world population levels stabilize in the next 50 years, a global labour shortage could prompt fierce competition for migrants. "

Most migrants come to cities in search of jobs, which are often unstable, and live under temporary and inadequate housing conditions.

Many internal migrants were also not registered at their current address, so unable to vote.

M-PESA first became popular as a way for young, male urban migrants to send money back to their families in the countryside.

Most of these savings are kept in bank accounts outside Africa or invested in migrants' host countries.

Translated into everyday language of economics, some brain drain may be reversed by imposing special short-term return duties on migrants.

New England Congregationalists settled alongside Scottish Presbyterians and Dutch Reformed migrants from New York.

And without autocrats to deter illegal migrants, countries will have to rethink their immigration policies.

To my own surprise, the fertility of rural-urban black migrants proved to be no higher than that of urban natives (3470 per 1000).

In a bid to protect Australian jobs, the number of skilled migrants allowed into the country is being cut.

About 600, 000 migrants have left Libya since the conflict broke out in February.

Having farmland to go back to, many officials believe, kept the unemployed migrants from taking to the streets.

An increasing number of experts believe that migrants will exert positive effects on the construction of city.

And the points test to be met by prospective migrants will also be revised.

From the EU Mr Maroni sought another deal to allow him to dispatch migrants, but in the opposite direction.

It is true that many skilled migrants have been educated and trained partly at the expense of their (often cash-strapped) governments.

Like thousands of other migrants who flow every year into what Indians call the "Maximum City" , Alam lives in squalor.

Migrants tend to be hard-working and innovative. That spurs productivity and company formation.

AIM: To detect tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis delay of the residents and migrants in Chongqing, and explore the problems and their reasons.

The economic slowdown is expected to hit Latin American exports to the US, as well as remittances from Latino migrants.

Total numbers are skewed by those displaced by the collapse of the Soviet Union or who became de facto migrants when borders moved.

Migrants are less willing to leave home because conditions in China's hinterland have improved.

The better the rural migrants integrate to the urban society, the closer their attitudes to those of permanent urban residents.

Four out of ten Australians are migrants or the first generation children of migrants, half of them from non-English speaking backgrounds.

But 16% of people studied were migrants: they had grown up in one state and moved to another.

Migrants without a city hukou are denied equal access to schooling and healthcare, breeding resentment.

Nor are hard-pressed migrants the only element in Catholic London's rich diversity.

A year ago many of the annual migrants rapidly found work.

Many chafe at restrictions on their religion and culture and a massive influx of Han migrants.

He declared that family migrants must not be a "burden on the taxpayer" .

According to Daxing officials, 80 percent of the crime in the past five years took place in areas dominated by migrants.

GEP recommends increasing access by poor migrants and their families to formal financial services for sending and receiving remittances.

The abundant supply of migrants willing to work for a pittance is slowing.

the police are accused (rightly) of bullying migrants, the bohemians of dallying with terrorism.

Some of the earliest Chinese migrants to Spain happened to come from the nearby town of Qingtian.

They say the real intent of the new measures is to keep track of the migrants, and some have labeled the policy a form of apartheid.

Opponents claim that migrants get more back in services than they pay in taxes.

Migrants who are abused are supposed to have access to legal remedies, regardless of their immigration status.

They tend to twist immigration codes toward welcoming the highly skilled "brain drain" migrants while shutting out most of the unskilled.

This was the 15th mission to evacuate migrants, mainly from northern Africa.

TRADE UNIONS as the bridge between migrants and capital: how to make more migrant workers to be protected by trade unions?

They would also tend to be somewhat older than the more recent migrants, within the age-span limits used.

Many mingle among the million or so illegal Burmese migrants living in Thailand.

He blamed an epidemic of robbery and other crimes on the flood of poor migrants into China's cities and a growing wealth gap.

Results Most migrants working in restaurants, hotels and entertainment establishments were very young and unmarried .

The government's attempt to shift low-cost manufacturing into inland provinces is partly aimed at easing the problems of migrants.

As a consequence, migrant families consume fewer calories per rupee of food expenditure than non-migrants do.

The International Organisation for Migration says it has sent a ship to Tripoli to evacuate migrants.

Interpersonal relations is to explore the adaptation of migrants and local residents, the actual contacts.

These "leisure" migrants have brought economic prosperities and employment opportunities to the island.

If, as some might argue, recent migrants do not deserve minority status, then what is "recent" ?

It is migrants, rather than geeks, who have emerged as the "most aggressive" adopters of new communications tools, says Ms Broadbent.

The border is ineffective and deporting illegal migrants does not work: removed by train, they return on foot.

The contributions and cultural diversity migrants bring with them "have made the United States the country it is today, " the document says.

The posters represent an underground economy spurred on by the flood of students and migrants pulled into the city to find work.

Circular migration could allow migrants to spend short periods of time abroad without creating new amounts of permanent migration.

Although this generation of migrants is more demanding, that does not necessarily translate into more organized protests.

At the bottom are 20, 000 newly arrived migrants, who provide labour for the factories on 12-hour shifts without weekend breaks.

But India's infrastructure issues, while difficult, are nothing compared to the problems China faces in assimilating its migrants.

The new issue also contains articles on the devastating effects of the economic crisis on workers, young people and migrants.

South Koreans (both in their homeland and as migrants to America) often convert from Buddhism to Protestantism as they rise economically.

A forthcoming study of 11 countries by Oxfam, a British NGO, found that migrants took new jobs, often at lower wages or with longer hours.

The advantage of such bonds, he says, is migrants and diasporas have "a different risk perception of the home country than investors. "

But migrants are often hired informally, making it easy for employers to evade such requirements.

Estimates suggest that migrants have contributed considerably to economic growth in "new" receiving countries.

Migrants will still be unable to travel freely or organise into unions.

Migrants and refugees forcibly returned by Israel to Egypt may face arbitrary arrest and detention and unfair trials before military courts.

For Europeans, democracy and prosperity in the region could provide growth opportunities and prevent a further flood of unwanted migrants.

Most of the sections in the Act have been inserted with the wording "Anti-Smuggling of Migrants" .

The brief notes that several European countries are considering measures that may reduce the inflows of new migrants.

These migrants are vulnerable to becoming victims of physical and sexual abuse, confinement and withholding of travel documents.

Migrants have brought their own stories, cultures and myths to combine with those of the colonial Australians.

In many people's eyes, to business migrants is to pay for a green card, must be especially rich Caixing.

However, before the arrival of these im-migrants, the Taino people lived on the island of Puerto Rico.

more city residents, who complain that the migrants have brought many serious problems like crime and prostitution.

With plenty supply of potential migrants in rural areas, it's no wonder that the region saw little wage pressures over recent decades.

One large people-smuggling business is believed to process 700 migrants a year, turning a profit of £ 500, 000.

Could the divorced son of migrants have become president in the pre-1968 conservative idyll of his imagining?

Countries should also make it easier and cheaper for migrants to send remittances home, he says.

Many African migrants try to reach Yemen on the sea every year, most of them from Somalia.

like the migrants that return each spring and autumn.