Search for Work and Workers at Heart of Migration in This Century, Says IOM's World Migration Report 2008.
GENEVA, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- People are becoming increasingly mobile within and across borders to meet the social and economic challenges of globalization with the search for employment at the heart of most movement in the 21st century, says the World Migration Report (WMR) 2008, launched today by the...

Palestinian labour migration to Israel; labour, land and occupation.
9780415333566 Palestinian labour migration to Israel; labour, land and occupation. Farsakh, Leila. Routledge 2005 264 pages $95.00 Hardcover The Routledge political economy of the Middle East and North Africa series HD5856...

A Political Economy of the Middle East.
A Political Economy of the Middle East, Third Edition, by Alan Richards and John Waterbury. Westview Press, 2008. 474 pages. $50.00. Alan Richards and John Waterbury's A Political Economy of the Middle East has always been a bit hard to characterize. It is clearly intended to be...

Canada's experience with managed migration: the strategic use of temporary foreign worker Programs.
MIGRATION SYSTEMS, MANAGED MIGRATION, AND TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKER PROGRAMS Like international trade patterns between exporting and importing countries, the movement of people across national-state boundaries follows a similarly-observable set of patterns. These human migration flows form the basis for a transnational migration system. A migration system is...

International migration in interesting times: the case of the UK.
Immigration to the UK is changing and growing. This paper focuses on developments in labour migration and the policies designed to manage it, as well as the entry of foreign students. It pays particular attention to the role of intra-company transfers and the internal labour markets of large trans-national...

Flexibility in domestic organization and seasonal migration among the Fulani of Northern Burkina Faso.
ABSTRACT Migration patterns among the Fulani of Burkina Faso have changed over recent decades from predominant transhumance, involving whole families, to seasonal rural-to-urban labour migration of young men. This article uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative data to examine the relationships between the new forms of...

It's destination Ireland for skilled pros.
Byline: Urmi A Goswami NEW DELHI: The Emerald Isle could be the next stop for the restless Indian. The Irish government, which is finalising an Immigration and Residence Bill, proposes a permanent migration system , where people would be selected as potential future citizens as well as...

GBP54.3 Billion Into UK Coffers From Migrant Workers.
New Research Shows That the UK Cannot Afford to Dispense With Inflow of Professional And Managerial Migrant Workers Migrants Create an Unprecedented 5% of UK GDP/GVA LONDON, November 28 /PRNewswire/ -- New research by professional services and outsourcing company, Harvey Nash, highlights how the UK would lose...

Indians take British govt to court over 'racist' rules.
Byline: Rashmee Roshan Lall LONDON: An estimated 30,000 Indians who left the mother country to work in Britain on the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP) have begun the fraught task of taking the UK government to court for its allegedly racist new immigration policies. The...