Health officials in US warn migrants about flu

As migrant workers from Mexico begin their journey north to take summer jobs in fields and construction sites across the U.S., public health officials and others are fanning out to intercept them at food lines and churches in hopes of stemming the spread of deadly swine flu.

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UN: Migrant worker cuts won't solve global crisis

Any move by countries to cut their migrant worker numbers in response to the global financial crisis will not work, a senior U.N. official said Tuesday.

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Spanish minister backtracks on migrant visa plan

Spain's labor minister has backtracked from a much criticized proposal to drastically slash the number of work visas available to migrant workers.

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Days before its 4,000 employees, mostly migrants, started off upon their annual trips home for the Chinese Lunar New Year, Tiansheng Group, a textile company in the eastern Zhejiang Province, promised pay rises hoping workers would all come back after the holiday.

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The survey of Catholic, mainline Protestant, born-again Protestant, and Jewish voters used neutral language and was one of the largest polls on immigration ever done.

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The large numbers of migrant workers in Dubai from Asia and the Middle East are likely to bear the brunt of the emirate's severe credit problems. For them Dubai had offered an escape from poverty in their home countries.

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Walmart, the world's largest retailer, is embroiled in a child labour scandal in the United States, after children as young as five were found working on a farm that supplies blueberries to the company.

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Guatemalan national Ever Ricardo Morales, 22, was arrested on Wednesday in Murfreesboro, TN and charged with five counts of statutory rape. The victim is a 13-year-old girl.

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THE United Nations' Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) will subject the Philippine government to "a higher level of scrutiny" when it comes to protecting the rights of migrant workers, after the Philippines claimed to be a global "model" among coun …

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BEIJING – The global economic crisis has taken hold deep in China's impoverished countryside, as millions of rural migrants are laid off from factory jobs and left to scratch a living from tiny landholdings — creating unsettling prospects for a government anxious to avoid soc …

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Migration and Unemployment Predictions for 2009

Migration and Unemployment Predictions for 2009 By Bernardo H. January 10, 2009

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WASHINGTON – Farm worker advocates and opponents of illegal immigration are blasting one of President George W. Bush's "midnight regulations" that will make it easier for agricultural employers to hire foreign workers.

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The Bush administration is posting new rules for bringing foreign farmworkers into the U.S. The goal is to make it easier for farmers to find a workforce that's here legally. Critics say the new rules will drive down wages and housing benefits, and put Americans out of work.

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Will Americans Pick Vegetables?

Miller Farms, a family-run operation in Platteville, CO, 37 miles north of Denver, had a bumper crop in 2008.

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"Eight members of a neo-Nazi group known as the "Petah Tikva Gang" were sentenced in Tel Aviv District Court to terms ranging from seven-and-a-half years to 15 months in prison for a series of assaults, including racially motivated attacks on Asian workers, haredim, blacks and ho …

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Tens of thousands of women migrant domestic workers in Jordan face isolation, exploitation and abuse, with little or no protection from the state.

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Senator Barack Obama responds to a comprehensive 36- point questionnaire on Immigration while McCain is mum on the issue.

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Circus Chimera came to NewPark Mall for the past four years and to Union City before that, but the acrobatic show won't go on this summer in the Tri-City area, or anyplace else.

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Advertisments have appeared recently in a Guatemalan newspaper for men to work at a meat packing plant in Postville, IA. The only meat packing plant in Postville, is the Agriprocessor plant, the object of a raid by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on May 12.

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Half of the 1 million eastern Europeans who have come to Britain since 2004 have already gone home, according to a new study.

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A criminal gang in northern India held 17 men captive and drained their blood, selling it for thousands of pounds, police say. The victims - all poor migrant workers - were so weak when they were rescued that they could not stand up. They are now being treated in hospital. Fiv …

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A weekly confrontation at a parking lot in Phoenix perfectly mimics the national debate over immigration.

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On the issue of immigration, politicians and much of the mainstream media are playing with our minds. By repeating the phrase "illegal immigrants," they're creating a misleading stereotype. It's inaccurate.

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Gulf states are failing to curb serious abuses of Sri Lankan migrant workers employed as maids in their countries, a Human Rights Watch report has said. The US-based group says abuse of maids is rampant in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Lebanon.

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For several years stories in the media have reported a farm labor shortage. This study examines this question and finds little evidence to support this conclusion. First, fruit and vegetable production is actually rising. Second, wages for farm workers have not risen dramatically.

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Mass migration, they say, has spawned an underground economy of staggering proportions.

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Brutal Beatings and Killings Symptomatic of Wider Abuse The killing of two Indonesian domestic workers by their employers in Saudi Arabia highlights the Saudi government's ongoing failure to hold employers accountable for serious abuses, Human Rights Watch said today.

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A firm which failed to pay agricultural workers for 35 days has had its licence revoked, the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) said.

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