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Migrants used as 'scapegoats', conference told
Source: Irish Times
by ALISON HEALY THE GOVERNMENT has been accused of using migrant workers as "convenient scapegoats" to distract from the State's employment problems. Migrant Rights Centre director Siobhan O'Donoghue said there were hints that the work permit system was to be reviewed and she said this…
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Sixteen Thirty Fund
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NAFSA: Association of International Educators
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Xenophobic violence last May organised by community leaders, says researcher
Source: Cape Times (South Africa)
JOHANNESBURG: The xenophobic violence last May was organised by "community leaders", a university researcher said yesterday. "The community leaders - the street committees, the comrades, the CPF (Community Policing Forum) as they are called - are involved. "They were the ones who were organising the…
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Strategy & Tactics
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Gautengers open arms to displaced foreigners
Source: The Star (South Africa)
by BONILE NGQIYAZA The African Development Forum has succeeded in reintegrating more than a thousand displaced migrants into communities since Gauteng's last refugee camps closed in October. Ivory Park, Tsakane's Extension 10, and Alexandra, north-east of Joburg, which were flashpoints during the xenophobic attacks, are…
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Immigrant Wins Award For Scholarship Work
Source: NPR / All Things Considered
Original Source and Audio by Nancy Mullane A Mexican immigrant gardener in the Bay Area has just been awarded a $100,000 National Purpose Prize for his work raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to send Hispanic kids to college. Catalino Tapia saved all his money to send…
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Telling the Story About South Africa's Rural Poor
Source: Gara LaMarche
The transition from apartheid to the new South Africa is rightfully viewed as one of the major advances in human history toward equality and democracy. But as I have written here before, many problems still exist: the South African government became an object of ridicule,…
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The Global Financial Crisis and Philanthropy: Altering Course in a Perfect Storm
Source: Gara LaMarche
The roots of the global financial crisis, and the paths out of it, are matters for debate. But what no one disputes is that the landscape in which foundations like Atlantic are working has been dramatically altered, and likely will be for some time to…
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TUI warns budget cuts will 'asset-strip' education
Source: Irish Times
by SEAN FLYNN, GORDON DEEGAN and KITTY HOLLAND Over 1,000 teaching posts will be lost and the entire education sector will be "asset-stripped" because of the budget cuts, the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) said yesterday. In a separate development, the Bishop of Killaloe, Dr…
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