Full Coverage: Migration

30.01.2006 Patrick Vieira's life story, from humble beginnings in Senegal to triumph with France, shows that football is the world's most globalised industry, says Simon Kuper.

26.01.2006 At least $232 billion was sent home by around 200 million migrants last year, three times official development aid, says Manuel Orozco, and he asks: What impact is this having on poverty reduction?

20.01.2006 Section 9 of the Asylum and Immigration Act seeks to "influence failed asylum-seekers' to voluntarily return" by withdrawing all state support and threatening to take children of "failed" asylum seekers into care. It has been described as "brutal" and "wholly inappropriate". It is the subject of a conference on 28 January, 11am to 4pm, at Central Methodist Central Hall, Oldham St, Manchester.

17.01.2006 Albanian immigrants, who live and work in Greece, protested the killing of the 17 years old boy, Edison Zahaj, in Crete. The Federation of the Albanian Associations in Greece informed that a protest was organized in the capital city of Greece, Athens, on January 15.

16.01.2006 Malaysia is accused of serious shortcomings in the application and enforcement of trade union rights and in migrant workers' conditions in a new report by an international confederation of unions.

15.01.2006 The world Bank latest statistics reveal that almost 54 percent of Mumbai population live in slums today. Another 25 to 30 percent live in chawls and footpaths, which leaves just 10 to 15 percent who, live in buildings, bungalows or high-rises.

13.01.2006 London-based development worker Chukwu Emeka-Chikezie explains how the northern-dominated aid industry and the Make Poverty History campaign have turned Africans into invisible objects and ignored the important role remittances play in tackling poverty. To really fight poverty, he says, increase migration from the developing world!

13.01.2006 Tribals have lifted their economic blockade on Rourkela after they were given a conditional assurance that those “genuinely” displaced would be given jobs.

12.01.2006 MPs debate debate the enforced removal of families with young children - in the absence of the Minister for Immigration, Tony McNulty.

12.01.2006 The chief United Nations envoy to Kosovo is urging displaced persons from the countryÂ’s Roma minority to relocate from their current, lead-polluted camps to a newly-refurbished facility which opened last week, after hearing their concerns over another move to temporary dwellings.

06.01.2006 Public policy expert Amy Traub explains how immigrants contribute to our economic well-being and why immigration policy should be based on solidarity, fair competition, and equal treatment under the law. By extending the same workplace rights and protections to undocumented workers that American citizens enjoy, we can all do better, she says.

02.01.2006 President Husni Mubarak should urgently appoint an independent commission to investigate the use of force by police - reportedly resulting in at least 20 deaths - against Sudanese migrants demonstrating in a makeshift camp in Cairo, a leading rights group urged.

02.01.2006 The constant threatening of the anti-government guerrillas to join their outfit coupled with extreme poverty led many kids from different parts of Nepal to work in stone quarries in central Nepal.