Party Platforms Discuss Immigration, But Candidates Scarcely Mention It September 15 — MPI's Claire Bergeron and Muzaffar Chishti report on the Democratic and Republican platforms, the worksite raid in Mississippi, the new citizenship test, and more. Global Nomads: The Emergence of the Tibetan Diaspora (Part I) September 2 — Approximately 122,000 Tibetans, including those of Tibetan ancestry, live outside their homeland. Seonaigh MacPherson, Anne-Sophie Bentz, and Dawa Bhuti Ghoso provide an in-depth look at Tibetan history and Tibetans' migration to India and the West in this first of our two-part series on the Tibetan diaspora. 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.    Little Job Growth Makes Labor Migration and Remittances the Norm in Post-Soviet Armenia  For many Armenians, working abroad and sending money home has become the main way of coping with poverty and limited job prospects. Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan, Arkady Gevorkyan, and Karine Mashuryan examine recent labor migration flows, the growth in remittances, and concerns about the country's dependence on both.

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. Filipino Immigrants in the United States September 10 — The 1.6 million Filipino immigrants residing in the United States in 2006 accounted for 4.4 percent of all US immigrants. MPI's Aaron Terrazas examines their socioeconomic characteristics, where they live, and the size of the Filipino-born unauthorized population. Source Spotlights are often updated as new data become available. Please click here to find the most recent version of this Spotlight. 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. Tiempo de moderar el optimismo: comparando experiencias de migración y desarrollo en México y Marruecos Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region Here, There, and Back Again: A New Zealand Case Study of Chinese Circulatory Transmigration Tradition and Progress: Taiwan's Evolving Migration Reality The Second Generation from the Last Great Wave of Immigration: Setting the Record Straight Women and Migration: Incorporating Gender into International Migration Theory Reassessing the Impacts of Brain Drain on Developing Countries Taiwanese Immigrants in the United States China's Young Rural-to-Urban Migrants: In Search of Fortune, Happiness, and Independence Top 10 of 2011 Issue #5: Substantial Investments to Court Diaspora Entrepreneurs for Development Gains Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region Tiempo de moderar el optimismo: comparando experiencias de migración y desarrollo en México y Marruecos China's Young Rural-to-Urban Migrants: In Search of Fortune, Happiness, and Independence Living In Between: The Chinese in South Africa Women and Migration: Incorporating Gender into International Migration Theory Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States Haitian Immigrants in the United States Emigration, Immigration, and Diaspora Relations in India Chinese Immigrants in the United States The Second Generation from the Last Great Wave of Immigration: Setting the Record Straight

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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