In Malaysia, Asylum Seekers And Trauma As Currency
Refugees awaiting processing – Betsy Joles Refugees in Malaysia explain how the resettlement process creates a perverse incentive to tailor their past experiences. Betsy Joles NEWS DEEPLY […]
Switzerland: REFUGEE INTEGRATION: Solomon wants to start a new life
By Luca Beti THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 24, 2018 Eritrean refugee Solomon Aklilu is learning the roofing trade in Bern.(Luca Beti) Like many refugees in Switzerland, […]
Hungary slams UN, insists it will ‘never be a country of migrants’
By AFP – Sep 19,2018 -JORDAN TIMES People attend a demonstration against Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest, Hungary, on Sunday (Reuters photo) GENEVA — Hungary’s foreign minister accused […]
Failure of the multicultural project in Europe
Sep 20,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – AKRAN AL DEEK Europe seems to feed what Samuel Huntington called in his 1992 lecture “The clash of civilisations”: a myth that assumes cultural, […]
No more Palestinian refugees
Sep 20,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – GWYNNE DYER Who said this? “The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive. […]
We’ve just completed the largest ever survey into British attitudes to immigration – and this is what we found
Voices We found that most people are not polarised, and instead are ‘balancers’ in terms of attitudes toward immigration. But we also found the scales of balance are weighed differently […]
Merkel takes a gamble with her new immigration law
Source: Gulf Times By Michael Nienaber/ Reuters Berlin Chancellor Angela Merkel hopes a new immigration law will make it easier for foreign workers to find jobs in Germany, but her […]
PM Imran Khan pledges citizenship for 1.5m Afghan refugees
Source: The Guardian By Memphis Barker in Islamabad Mon 17 Sep 2018 Imran Khan has pledged to grant citizenship to 1.5 million Afghan refugees who have lived on the […]
Arsenal star launches new coaching programme in Zaatari camp
By Camille Dupire – Sep 15,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Former Arsenal captain Per Mertesacker launches the ‘Coaching for Life’ programme in Zaatari camp recently (Photo courtesy of Save the Children) […]
Dalai Lama says ‘Europe belongs to the Europeans’ and refugees should rebuild own countries
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP STOCKHOLM The Tibeteans spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama (C), speaks during meeting with the press in Malmo, Sweden, September 12, 2018. (EPA Photo) […]
A Matter of Survival: How to Humanely Solve Europe’s Migration Crisis
Few topics have been as divisive in Europe as the question of what to do with the flood of migrants arriving on the shores of the Mediterranean. But a moral […]
Afghans need asylum, all should not bear blame for few crimes in Europe – U.N.
Reuters International THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 10, 2018 U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi attends a news conference following a joint mission to Afghanistan and […]
Italy’s Salvini hits out after UN migrant criticism
By AFP – Sep 10,2018 -JORDAN TIMES A boat carrying 157 migrants is stranded in the Strait of Gibraltar before being rescued by the Spanish Guardia Civil and the Salvamento […]
Three years after Germany’s borders opened: How migrants are lost in bureaucratic web
AFP news@thelocal.de @thelocalgermany 5 September 2018 Photo: DPA Zaid al-Ahmad fled from war in Iraq, but the 23-year-old is still struggling to get out of a bureaucratic web in Berlin. […]
Three years on from Alan Kurdi’s death and life is no better for child refugees in Europe
Though many grassroots organisations and charities are filling the gaps, they’re doing the work that the government should be doing Katy Fallon 80 years on from the Kindertransport and three […]
Thousands rally in Germany for migrant rescue missions
Source: DW.com Almost 20,000 people have marched through Berlin and Hamburg demanding that Germany take in more migrants stranded at sea. Sunday’s marches were organized in response to the violent […]
Lebanon is on a tightrope, balancing Saudi, Iranian and Western interests – its position is precarious
If Lebanon needs Syria more than Syria needs Lebanon, I suppose that Lebanon needs America more than America needs Lebanon. Either way, the country’s neutrality still protects it from itself […]
Pentagon raises alarm about sharp drop in Iraqi refugees coming to US
By Reuters – Aug 20,2018 – JORDAN TIMES US soldiers gather at a military base north of Mosul, Iraq, on January 4, 2017 (Reuters file photo) WASHINGTON — Military officials […]
Reflects on Hampshire Life report about Pakistani
letter to the editor Thank you for the excellent piece in the Aug. 3-9 Hampshire Life on Ahmadis and Saadat Virk (“Saadat Virk embraces the present in America but thinks […]
Good behaviour: Renewal of Swiss residence permits depends on integration
This content was published on August 15, 2018 Someone with a permanent residence permit may be relegated to temporary resident status if they fail to meet integration criteria. (Keystone) The […]