tagged w/ Migrants
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Increasing floods, famines, droughts, fires, and other disasters are displacing people globally. As climate change continues to advance, more catastrophes will occur forcing more people from their homes. Most of the migration will take place within one's own borders. The poorest are going to suffer the most. Increasing floods, famines, droughts, fires, and other disasters are displacing people... more
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JUAN GÓMEZ, Dominican Republic ? The scrap-wood shanties on a muddy hillside are a poor man?s promised land.
They have leaky roofs and dirt floors, with no lights or running water. But hundreds of Haitian migrants have risked their lives to come here and work the surrounding fields, and they are part of a global trend: migrants who move to poor countries from even poorer ones.
Audio slide show:
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/world/20071227_MIGRATION_FEATURE/index.htmlJUAN GÓMEZ, Dominican Republic ? The scrap-wood shanties on a muddy hillside... more
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The biggest mass migration of people is happening in China. Over 100 million migrants have moved from the poor countryside to the cities in search of work. Laura Ling looks into the migrant situation in China and the rights for migrant workers.The biggest mass migration of people is happening in China. Over 100 million migrants... more
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Under pressure from Spain and the European Union, Morocco has begun a crackdown on the wave of sub-Saharan Africans trying to reach Europe. Mariana van Zeller visits with immigrant communities who are living in the shadows of Moroccan slums.Under pressure from Spain and the European Union, Morocco has begun a crackdown on the... more
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