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When migrants go home, they bring back money, skills and ideas that can change a country
Escaping violence, war, poverty and environmental disaster, more people than ever are migrating worldwide. Some 258 million people – 3.4% of the global population—live outside their country of birth.
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More than 100 migrants drowned off the Libyan coast and no one noticed
Seventeen-month-old twins were among more than 100 migrants who drowned when their boat deflated off the Libyan coastline earlier this month, according to witness accounts published Tuesday by Medecins Sans Frontier. The incident only came to light after the aid agency spoke to survivors currently held in detention.
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"She Is 14 But Looks Older": Sweden Launches "Migrant Sex Courses" To Teach Newcomers How To Behave
The Swedish government will pump 5 million Swedish crowns ($564,000 USD) into migrant sex courses according to news outlet Fria Tider. A portion of the funding will support the government's sex-awareness website, "Youmo," which provides translation in Arabic, Somali and Dari. The goal of the website is to "simply inform immigrants about what is in Sweden," reports Tider.
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Americans Really Don't Like Immigration, New Survey Finds
Sixty-one percent of Americans agree that "continued immigration into the country jeopardizes the United States," according to a new poll commissioned by management consulting firm A.T. Kearney that revealed pessimism across a wide range of issues. The degree of concern is remarkable considering that the question was about all immigration, including the legal kind. Even Republican presidential candidate Donald Drumpf has said he supports legal immigration into the U.S.
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German Village of 102 Braces for 750 Asylum Seekers
This bucolic, one-street settlement of handsome redbrick farmhouses may for the moment have many more cows than people, but next week it will become one of the fastest growing places in Europe. Not that anyone in Sumte is very excited about it. In early October, the district government informed Sumte’s mayor, Christian Fabel, by email that his village of 102 people just over the border in what was once Communist East Germany would take in 1,000 asylum seekers.
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Migrants crisis: Slovakia 'will only accept Christians' - BBC News
Slovakia says it will only accept Christians when it takes in 200 Syrian refugees under a EU relocation scheme.
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