Great Red Hope.
[The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Statin's Russia, Tim Tzouliadis, Penguin, 362 pages] THERE ARE MANY BOOKS about immigrants from the Russian revolution. Anyone with an interest in 20th-century history has read or heard of the aristocrats who fled from their murderous Bolshevik usurpers to become waiters,...

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...

France opens doors for Filipino professionals and competent workers.
French Ambassador Gerard Chesnel said his government has softened its immigration policy to welcome foreign workers, refuting claims that France would close its doors to Filipino workers following the European Parliament's adoption of the draft directive on the return of illegal migrants last June 18. "On the...

Chief Justice Puno vows to improve poor's access to courts.
But Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno vowed to act on the complaints as he assured that "we will not lose even a fraction of time before aggregating the ideas proposed in this forum and putting the doables into our rule books." "Words on a parchment, without more,...

Canadian employers in Manila to recruit Filipino workers.
POEA Administrator Rosalinda Dimapilis Baldoz said a large number of employers with many job vacancies from the Canadian province of Saskatchewan are looking to hire Filipino workers during a one-week recruitment mission. Baldoz said that recruitment will be through Philippine licensed agencies selected by the Saskatchewan government...

Asia-Pacific labour mobility and the two track labour market.
John Sutton is National Secretary of the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU). The following opinion piece is a revised version of his address to the Catalyst Seminar held in Sydney, 6 May 2008, by Catalyst Australia, a new labour movement think-tank. Here he presents evidence showing that the...

Research note: issues of production vs. reproduction/maintenance revisited: towards an understanding of Arizona's immigration policies.
The subject of international immigration has been a topic in which anthropologists have historically shown great interest. Especially since the 1970s and 1980s anthropologists in the United States have studied the dynamics of immigration and the patterns of adaptation of immigrants from around the world. In order to understand...

BI acts on crime rings in Cebu; Sends team to Mactan airport to probe report on escort services.
Byline: JUN RAMIREZ Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Marcelino C. Libanan yesterday dispatched a team to Cebu City to look into reports that crime syndicates are operating escort services at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA). Libanan's move is in response to a report from an...

No prohibition for Bayno to coach in PBA - Jun B.
PBA commissioner Jun Bernardino stressed this point during yesterday's PSA Forum, saying there is no article in the league by-laws standing in the way of American Bill Bayno coaching the Phone Pals this season. "There is no prohibition in the PBA charter to disallow Talk 'N Text...