by Sean Reilly | Sep 11, 2008
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a policy research body bringing together the world’s richest developed countries, has suggested that fears about migration and hostility towards migrant workers are unjustified. A new report from...
by Sean Reilly | May 23, 2008
Lutherans in America have expressed concern over the impact of immigration enforcement raids on children and families in the US. They say that US immigration law is ‘badly broken’ and in desperate need of reform. The Rev Steven L. Ullestad, bishop in the...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 18, 2008
Migration “is a fact of life. It is as much an instinct to survive as it is an inevitable consequence of globalization. We can neither turn our backs on it, nor control it,” declared a statement of participants at a 15-16 April Public Hearing on Migration...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 23, 2008
As questions about the fairness of UK migration policy once more come into the spotlight, the Anglican archbishops of Canterbury and York have been visiting the Oakington Immigration Detention Centre as part of a trip to Cambridge. They met the multi-faith chaplaincy...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 1, 2008
Norway’s government has praised the country’s small Roman Catholic Church for its role in supporting more than 100,000 labour migrants from Poland and other eastern European countries – writes Oivind Ostang. “We have become increasingly aware...
