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Immigration to Australia from the UK has more than doubled in recent years, climbing from 9000 at the beginning of the decade to just over 23,000 in 2007.
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The biggest group of humanitarian immigrants allowed into Canada in 2006 came from Mexico, almost 12,000 of them or about 13% of the total in that category.
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Chinese immigrants to Canada have outnumbered all other nationalities every year for the past decade, accounting for roughly 13% of all new permanent residents, followed by those from India (12%), PhiIippines (7%), Pakistan (5%) and the U.S. (4%).
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More than 100 New Zealanders emigrated to neighbouring Australia every day, between March 2007 and March 2008.
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16,700 immigrants arrived by boat in Lampedusa and the coast of Sicily in 2007
Many of them came from Nigeria, Morocco, Somalia, Tunisia, Eritrea, Ghana, and other African countries, and usually take a boat to Lampedusa from Libya. (More)Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: Europe, Italy, There
An estimated 8 million illegal immigrants reside in the EU, half of whom entered in legally but overstayed.
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In 2007, roughly 31,000 Africans tried to reach the Canary Islands, a prime transit point to Europe, in more than 900 boats.
About 6,000 died or disappeared, according to one estimate cited by the United Nations. (More)Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: Europe, There
In 2007, less than 20,000 people came to set up a new life in Israel, according to the country's central statistics office.
Numbers have declined even further in 2008, with only 3,424 new immigrants in the first quarter - bringing immigration levels down to those of the time before the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. (More)Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: Israel, There
The number of immigrants living in Spain has soared from around half a million in 1996 to about 4.5 million, or 10 percent, of a total population of 45 million in 2008.
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The 49,000 Zimbabweans living in the UK, according to the 2001 UK census, will triple by the next census in 2011.
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African countries collectively lose $12 billion a year in economic growth due to factors such as malaria-related spending and sick workers unable to work.
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A report, conducted by Australia's NSW Secondary Principals Council in 2006, showed the percentage of Anglo-European students in public schools had decreased by a third in western NSW, by 42% in North Sydney and 37% in New England.
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White flight -- where Anglo-European parents shun state schools that have a high proportion of students from other racial backgrounds -- had become a big challenge for multicultural Australia.
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In 2007 429,649 people were admitted into Canada, which is 60,000 more than four years ago. There was a 12 percent increase in the number of people admitted through temporary Canada immigration.
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The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Ikoyi Passport Control Office generated about 300 million niara from the issuance of e-passports, a new service for the country, between January and March 2008.
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From the early 1990s to 2006 the share of adults who considered "immigration and race relations" as the most important issue facing Britain increased from less than 5 percent to over 40 percent.
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The UK population grew from 56.4 million in 1981 to 60.6 million in 2006. By 2031 UK population is expected to be 71.1 million - more than two thirds of this growth is attributable, directly or indirectly, to future net immigration.
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In 2006, 3% of immigrants to the UK were born in Africa and the Middle East, and 2.5% in the Indian subcontinent.
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As a member of the European Union, the UK cannot regulate the number of people from the European Economic Area (EEA) entering the country.
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Remittances are Mexico's third-largest source of income after oil and tourism.
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800,000 eastern Europeans applied to live in the UK between 2004 and 2007, and only 30,000 were turned down.
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In 2007, a near-record number foreigners was allowed into Canada - 429,000 - a total higher than in any year since 1911.
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A steady influx of immigrants helped turn Spain into Europe's miracle economy.
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In 2005, Spain's Socialist government made between 600,000 and 700,000 illegal workers legal.
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Between 2004 and 2007, 40 percent of all the new jobs in the European Union were created in Spain.
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In 2008, for the first time in Spain's electoral history, immigration has become a campaign issue.
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Israel is not a common destination for refugees, but the late Prime Minister Menachem Begin set a precedent in 1977 when he offered asylum to nearly 400 Vietnamese boat people.
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In 2004, Ireland had about 18,000 mixed families of Irish children and illegal-immigrant parents. Wary of the costs of large-scale deportation, the government ran a one-time legalization program that gave residency to about 95 percent of those parents.
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Ireland not only offered citizenship to children born upon arrival, but until 2003 it also allowed their illegal-immigrant parents to stay, a shortcut many asylum seekers used to win residency.
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In the 1980s, young Irish were fleeing unemployment in droves, many to work illegally in the United States. By the late 1990s, an economic boom called the Celtic Tiger was luring them home, along with a wave of asylum seekers, many from Africa.
Some had escaped harrowing wars or genital mutilation. But officials grew skeptical of their claims as their numbers surged to about 12,000 in 2002 from a trickle a decade before. (More)Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: Ireland, There
When a Dublin high school student was deported from Ireland to Nigeria in 2005, his protesting classmates won his return.
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Portlaoise, a town south of Dublin, has Ireland's first African-born mayor.
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For centuries, Ireland was a racially homogenous land of emigrants. Now, in the 21st century, it is a multicultural nation of immigrants, whose share of the population, 11 percent, is nearly as high as that in the United States.
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Nearly 800,000 workers from the new EU countries such as Poland have applied for UK immigration in the past four years.
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In February 2008, the British government implemented a points-based system, based of the Austrailian system, which is designed to ensure only those with skills the country needs can come to Britian to work.
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Until February 2008, there were 80 different ways people could apply to come to Britain for work or study, which many found confusing and complex and which critics said failed to meet government goals
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Migrants from Sudan, Chad, Niger and Mali make it across the Sahara to Libya and Algeria. On this journey, conservative estimates put the number of dead at 1,079 people since 1996.
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In the course of 2007, some 1,861 migrants died trying to cross into Europe by sea, according to the Italian monitoring organization Fortress Europe. This is only a slight improvement upon 2006, when the number of known deaths was 2,088.
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The number of foreign workers has risen above two million for the first time in Britain, which in 2008 proposed tightening of immigration rules for people from India and other non-EU countries.
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While the number of babies born to British mothers has fallen by 44,000 a year since the mid-nineties, the figure for babies born to foreign mothers has risen by 64,000, pushing the overall birthrate to its highest level for 26 years.
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Africans have been sneaking into Israel in increasing numbers during 2007 and 2008. More than 7,000 have entered the country illegally through Egypt in just a little over a year, including more than 2,000 by February 2008.
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The Filipino community in Manitoba, a Canadian province, numbers about 50,000, and accounts for nearly 25 percent of the province's total immigration.
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The Filipino community in Canada will continue on its growth path, topping the half million mark by 2017.
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Three quarters of immigrants in smaller cities are fluent in one of Canada's official languages, compared to 61.5 per cent of those in large cities.
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Immigration is a crucial requirement for population growth in Canada.
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Nearly three quarters of Canadian immigrants settle in Canada's three largest metropolitan areas, Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal.
However, a 2008 Statistics Canada report suggests that those who go against the grain and start their new lives in smaller Canadian centres will likely experience an even more successful integration into Canadian society. (More)Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: Canada, There
In 2008, about 1,400 Falashmura, Ethiopians who claim Jewish ancestry despite conversion to Christianity over the years, received approval to move to Isreal after the High Courts of Justice ruled that the Isreali government cannot restrict immigration.
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Nearly 800,000 Eastern European immigrants have applied to work in Britain since Poland and seven other ex-Soviet countries joined the European Union in 2004.
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Since the early 1990s, legal immigration in Italy has more than quadrupled, reaching nearly 3.7 million in 2006, the most recent statistics available.
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There are about 200 million migrants in the world - probably a record, demographers say, in both relative and absolute terms - and more than 80 percent live outside the United States.
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More than 100 foreign nationals deported to their home countries have been returned immediately to the UK, between 2003 and 2008.
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There are 176 holding centres in Europe for illegal immigrants: 16 are in Italy, 19 in Greece and four in Malta where most immigrants head.
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About 8,800 Egyptian illegal emigrants died in European holding camps from 1993 to 2006.
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The "dirty dozen" is the name for the detainees Australia's immigration system that no one knows what to do with. These 12 have become semi-permanent, if unofficial, residents. They cannot be deported or released from the detention center.
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Over 100,000 illegal immigrants arrive in Europe from Arab countries every year.
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Eritrea receives about 40 percent of its gross domestic product through remittances, whereas exports contribute about 4 percent to the G.D.P.
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Africans who immigrate to the United States contribute 40 times more wealth to the American economy than to the African economy. According to the United Nations, an African professional working in the United States contributes about $150,000 per year to i
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The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has estimated that one highly trained African migrant between 25 and 35 years old, the age group into which most of the Africans going abroad fall, represents a cash value of $184,000 at 1997 prices.
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There are about 200 million potential immigrants in the world, out of which 10 million Africans in the diaspora are working for betterment.
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Refugee and multicultural advocates say that Australia's controversial citizenship test, implemented in October 2007, discriminates against applicants from marginalised, non-English speaking backgrounds.
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Statistics New Zealand says the unemployment rate fell to 3.4% in the December 2007 quarter - its lowest level since the survey began in 1986. The government is being asked to relax the immigration laws in bid to curb the labour shortage.
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Australia has always relied on immigration to fill jobs and keep its economy growing (ABC News, Feb. 5, 2008)
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New Zealand's immigration growth was the lowest in more than six years in 2007
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The Phillipines deported 101 Chinese during the months of June and December 2007. Next on the list were 43 Americans, 37 Koreans, 24 Japanese, 23 Indians and 22 Nigerians.
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More than 400 foreigners were prevented from entering the Philippines from June to December 2007 as a result of the bureau's intensified campaign against human smuggling.
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Chinese nationals topped the list of foreigners barred from entering the Phillipines in the year 2007.
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China has been the biggest source of immigrants to Canada in recent years. In 2005, China was the source of more than 42,000 of the 262,000 immigrants who arrived in Canada, far more than the 33,000 who came from India.
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Australia has accepted 6.5 million newcomers since the end of World War II. Almost half of the population of 20 million people were born overseas or have one immigrant parent.
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Dubai, the commercial and tourist hub of the United Arab Emirates, issues two weeks tourist visas for $200, generating an annual revenue of $170 million a year.
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