http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/ A product of the Medill News Service, ImmHT provides a cross-national perspective on immigration, enhancing exposure to world affairs for Americans, providing public space to air compelling stories about diaspora populations, and serving as a repository of facts and figures in an arena of often misleading information. en Copyright 2008 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/ Fri, 09 May 2008 11:27:43 -0600 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss BY ELISA MIGNOT, SCIENCES PO, SPECIAL TO THE MEDILL NEWS SERVICE "We were living in a truck when the Americans attacked," said the man in a low and shaky voice. "We hid behind the driver's seat." He was perched on a chair in the refugee service of Amnesty International in Paris, recounting his odyssey with his wife and three children from Iraq to France. His name is Yeshar, he is an Iraqi Kurd from Baghdad and he said he faces sure death if he has to go home. "We went all the way to Istanbul," he continued. "We stayed there http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/post_15.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/post_15.php Feature Stories Fri, 09 May 2008 11:27:43 -0600 BY ALEXANDER KNETIG, SCIENCES PO, SPECIAL TO THE MEDILL NEWS SERVICE Carera always rents a donkey from his friends A lonely man is crossing the Savannah in his wooden horse cart, hand-painted in red, yellow and green, the national colous of Senegal. In this wide emptiness burned by the torrid Sahel sun, his unhurried whistling is the only sound one can hear within a radius of several kilometers. Albert Carera left his hometown of Louga three hours earlier to amble slowly to his farm, located near the River Senegal more than 300 kilometers north of Dakar, close to the border http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/by_alexander_knetig_sciences_p.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/05/by_alexander_knetig_sciences_p.php Paris Dispatches Mon, 05 May 2008 08:56:27 -0600 BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE [this story was originally published by Reuters on April 29, 2007, and ran in dozens of news outlets around the world, including Washingtonpost.com, Boston.com and NYTimes.com] to the companion story "'I have to do this.' Moroccan to have hymen resewn" Sitting in a cafe near the Champs Elysees, the 26-year-old French-born woman of Algerian descent looks like any other Parisian. But two months ago, she did something none of her friends have done. She had her hymen re-sewn, technically making her a virgin again. "I'm glad I had it done," said the woman, who http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/07/muslim_women_in_france_regain.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/07/muslim_women_in_france_regain.php Feature Stories Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:54:22 -0600 BY ALVARO VILLALOBOS LOPEZ, SCIENCES PO, SPECIAL TO THE MEDILL NEWS SERVICE Sitting at a table, he drinks his coffee while talking to two women. His white shirt is spotless. His hair, in place. His words roll slowly. He looks determined. António de Macedo Andrade, Portuguese immigrant, is the owner of the restaurant Paris Madeira, in Paris' 9th district. Like Andrade, Alberto Alves, Antonia Gonçalves, and José da Silva arrived in Paris between 1968 and 1970. They had to work hard to create their own companies in and around Paris. Affluent and prosperous, they represent a vital minority in France's http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/05/a_minority_within_a_minority_t.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/05/a_minority_within_a_minority_t.php Paris Dispatches Sun, 27 May 2007 10:20:05 -0600 BY MADELEINE LEROYER, SCIENCES PO, SPECIAL TO THE MEDILL NEWS SERVICE [A version of this story won third prize in the 2007 Daniel Pearl Award, a competition sponsored by The Wall Street Journal, in collaboration with the Ecole de Journalisme de Sciences Po in Paris, and was published in the Wall Street Journal Online] Read the English version Read the French version Read the interview of Jean-Francois Dubost in English or in French). Lawyer, specialized in international law, Jean-Francois Dubost is the head of the "Refugee Department" at Amnesty International France. After two years of living in fear, a Chechen http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/05/chechen_refugees_the_long_road_1.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/05/chechen_refugees_the_long_road_1.php Paris Dispatches Sun, 20 May 2007 12:50:08 -0600 BY FANNIE OLIVIER, SCIENCES PO, SPECIAL TO THE MEDILL NEWS SERVICE [A version of this story won second prize in the 2007 Daniel Pearl Award, a competition sponsored by The Wall Street Journal, in collaboration with the Ecole de Journalisme de Sciences Po in Paris, and was published in the Wall Street Journal Online] Read the English version Read the French version Virginie and Ronnie's apartment is perched at the top of a long and narrow spiral staircase. Located in a popular Paris neighborhood near the Gare du Nord train station, it is mansard-roofed and tiny. A painting is soiled http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/04/oneway_ticket_to_quebec.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/04/oneway_ticket_to_quebec.php Paris Dispatches Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:53:51 -0600 BY AURELIE TOULEMONDE, SCIENCES PO, SPECIAL TO THE MEDILL NEWS SERVICE Two versions of this articles are availlable English French "B612!" Twelve high pitched voices holler in unison as fingers shoot to the ceiling. Sitting in the back row, Yassine, a 12-year-old boy, in hallmark baggy pants and hooded jumper has leapt to his feet. His body now stretches across his desk, his arm reaching towards Madame Peltier, the teacher standing at the front of the classroom. His extra effort does the trick. He is rewarded by a disapproving glare but gets the right to answer. "The Little Prince came http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/03/lecole_jeanbaptiste_clement.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/03/lecole_jeanbaptiste_clement.php Feature Stories Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:05:40 -0600 BY JACK C. DOPPELT, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE When Ramadan Khattab left Ramallah for Paris in 1999, it was his first trip to Europe. The Palestinian's English was better than his French, though he'd spent only four years in school and learned no English there. He'd crossed borders before, usually to Jordan or to Israel. His stay in Israel had been his longest away from home; a stretch of 14 months in two Israeli prisons when he was 18 years old, for throwing stones at Israeli troops during the First Intifada. This time he was leaving Palestine for Europe, thanks to http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/02/from_ramallah_to_chatelet_2.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/02/from_ramallah_to_chatelet_2.php Profiles Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:00:20 -0600 Download file http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/01/playing_at_chatelet.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/01/playing_at_chatelet.php Paris Dispatches Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:47:57 -0600