The largely informal business of transferring money from immigrants in North America to their home countries is mostly accomplished through small neighborhood agents. Yet many immigrants, according to this research, are dissatisfied with the unreliability and sluggishness of this informal remittance network - and with the exorbitant fees agents charge....
Americans seem increasingly worried about immigration. A 2006 Pew Research Center poll suggested that 44 percent of Americans believe that immigrants today are unwilling to assimilate – you know, learn English and pretend to like baseball more than soccer. That fear – or rather the reverse of...
Is one answer to our economic problems more immigrants? PriceWaterhouseCoopers reveals this week that CEO confidence in the year ahead is down for the first time since 2003. What's stressing out chief executives? Obviously, the economy, but a survey from consulting firm Accenture released this week suggests that C-suite executives...
Should Foreign Languages Be Banned from US Workplaces?Language UseageIn the workplace, on the clock employees need to speak English. I don't care about their heritage -- I care about communication.On breaks or off the clock, speak whatever language you want -- be a mime, I don't care -- but...
This paper suggests how social network analysis, in contrast to looking at physical space, can be used to trace the social and economic location of ethnic enclaves. Taking skilled workers immigrating to Canada from China as an example, the authors analyze critically how split labor market theories describe materialist and...
The foreign-born represent a disproportionate share of nonelderly U.S. adults without health insurance. Using data from Los Angeles County, this report finds that most of the insurance disparities between the foreign-born and native-born can be explained by traditional socioeconomic factors. Undocumented immigrants, however, have lower rates of coverage, both private...
Interest in the health status of immigrant populations has increased dramatically in response to their rapid growth over the past two decades. More immigrants came to live in the US in the 1990s than in any other decade in the nation's history, surpassing even the record number of arrivals during...
Using a variant of the Ricardo-Viner model, fragmentation of manufacturing is analyzed, outsourcing of services, and immigration of both skilled and unskilled workers. Situation is considered in which; Fragmentation arises out of the Heckscher-Ohlin factor intensity difference; Outsourcing is caused by increasing returns to scale in production; and skilled immigrants...
Illegal immigrants constitute a large and growing force in the political, economic, and investment spheres in The United States. The size of this extra-legal segment of the population is significantly understated because the official U.S. Census does not capture the total number of illegal immigrants. In turn, the growth of...
In a meeting with Hispanic leaders, McCain said he would try as president to get an immigration overhaul through Congress. Some restrictionists were unduly alarmed when they heard this report. But there is nothing new here. McCain has never backed off his support for legalizing illegal immigrants. He has also...
WASHINGTON -- The European Parliament's decision to pass a new law allowing member countries to imprison undocumented aliens for up to 18 months and deport children has reignited the debate over immigration, one of the most sensitive issues of our time. The European arguments against immigration are...
WASHINGTON -- At a town hall meeting in Georgia this morning, presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama told an audience that, "you need to make sure that your child can speak Spanish." Speaking in Powder Springs, Ga., the Illinois Senator said that the nation's chief priority should not be for...
EL-ARISH, Egypt AFP — Egyptian police shot and wounded an Ethiopian man on Wednesday as he tried to cross the border illegally into Israel, a security official said. The 28-year-old man was shot in the foot by police south of the border town of Rafah. He had failed...
There is a British family in our neighborhood who came here to America to build a business and a better life. More wonderful people you will never meet. They have been trying to gain citizenship but took bad advice from a U.S. immigration attorney and are now denied even the...
The distorting of political positions results when individuals fail to back up their positions with logic and clarity. A classic case of such distortion is Neil Thomas' letter (Readers' Forum, July 5) criticizing Chuck Baldwin for supposedly unchristian extremist views regarding illegal immigrants. Unfortunately, equating Baldwin's desire...
A Bosnian immigrant has been sentenced to one year federal probation for failing to disclose on his U.S. visa application that he was involved with a military group tied to the genocide of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995. Branko Ristic was charged with two other men...
Canada's faith communities are today appealing to the Prime Minister and Immigration Minister to stop all deportation actions against U.S. Iraq War conscientious objector Corey Glass as well as all those who have sought refuge in Canada. The federal government's July 10 deportation order against Glass is still in effect....
International Philanthropist, Activist and Businesswoman RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Hortensia R. Magana, who started out in the United States as a simple factory worker to eventually lead and own one of the largest tortilla wholesalers in the nation, passed away Tuesday, July 1st,...
The Court of Special Appeals rejected a man's effort to withdraw his guilty plea for child endangerment Thursday, turning aside his argument that he had only entered the plea in the mistaken belief that by doing so he would avoid deportation proceedings. The court, in its 3-0...
FOUR laptops full of secret information have been stolen from what is supposed to be one of the most secure police stations in the country. But far from having to break into the building, the thief simply WALKED in behind an officer who used a swipe...
