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Government Self-Deportation Program Attracts More Criticism Than Immigrants
August 15 — MPI's Muzaffar Chishti and Claire Bergeron report on the Scheduled Departure program, special visas for Iraqi nationals, hospital "deportations," and more.
China and Africa: Stronger Economic Ties Mean More Migration
August 6 — Along with increased trade and Chinese investment in Africa has come new migration between the two regions. Malia Politzer places this movement in context and looks at the types of Chinese migrants going to Africa and the Africans going to China. More about China on our China Resource page.
Women Migrants in Detention in Mexico: Conditions and Due Process
June 2 — Approximately 400,000 migrants transit through Mexico each year in order to reach the United States, many of them women from Latin America. Gabriela Diaz and Gretchen Kuhner explain how the detention system's structure and new detention procedures affect women.
  
Arizona Hosts Groups on Both Sides of the Immigration Debate
In no state is the immigration debate more polarized than in Arizona. Malia Politzer examines the proimmigrant and border watch groups active in the state and how they seek to influence policy.
Georgia-Russia Conflict
August 12 -- Our Georgia country profile provides background on internally displaced people in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. For the latest on aid for people displaced in the fighting, see the UNHCR page for Georgia.
Vietnamese Immigrants in the United States
August 12 — In 2006, 1.1 million Vietnamese immigrants resided in the United States, accounting for 3.0 percent of all US immigrants. MPI's Aaron Terrazas examines their socioeconomic characteristics, where they live, and the size of the Vietnamese-born unauthorized population.
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Indian Immigrants in the United States
July 11 — The 1.5 million Indian immigrants residing in the United States accounted for 4.0 percent of all US immigrants in 2006. MPI's Aaron Terrazas examines their socioeconomic characteristics, where they live, and the size of the Indian-born unauthorized population.
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South Africa: Policy in the Face of Xenophobia
July 28 — South Africa is struggling to define a post-apartheid migration policy that is responsive to its changing role in Africa, the relationship between migration and development, and the country's rampant xenophobia, seen most graphically in May 2008. Jonathan Crush of the Southern African Migration Project reports on the latest developments. South Africa Resource Page.
 
Nonimmigrants from India and the United Kingdom made up more than one-third of all H-1B "specialty occupation" worker admissions in the United States in 2006. Click here for more information.
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