Sentences with phrase «of economic migrants»

Prof Peres added: «Given the enormous supply of cheap unoccupied land, Brazilian Amazonia continues to attract a large contingent of economic migrants from more populated regions.

In April we introduced a limit on the number of economic migrants able to come to the UK from outside the European Economic Area.

Bulgaria and Romania were granted accession earlier this year despite concerns over the transparency of their legal systems, but the biggest worry among existing members is the expected flood of economic migrants seeking work within their borders.

In 2010, the Ghana Immigration Service reported that there was a large number of economic migrants and Illegal immigrants inhabiting Ghana 14.6 % (or 3.1 million) of Ghana's 2010 population (predominantly Nigerians, Burkinabe citizens, Togolese citizens, and Malian citizens).

This distinction matters because in the case of economic migrants what the state is doing when it admits them is best understood in terms of mutual advantage: the migrants gains by moving, and the people of the receiving state gain by having them in their midst.

More importantly, these definitions are to be differentiated from that of an economic migrant whose mobilisation is voluntary and primarily motivated by improved material circumstances as opposed to human rights and safety (Morrow, 1994).

Not exact matches

Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and economic migrants have reached Italy in the last few years, after rescue at sea when smugglers» boats founder in the Mediterranean.

Similarly, earlier in the week, a Deutsche Bank research team argued that in light of upcoming European elections and ongoing large - scale economic and political challenges like the migrant crisis, Europe is unlikely to see deeper coordination:

About 7 % of the UK's workforce is made up of European Economic Area (EEA) migrants, a sharp rise from 2 % in 2004.

Earlier on Wednesday, the U.K.'s National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) reported Brexit would have «significant and damaging» effects on British companies by restricting their ability to employ migrants.

For Carlos Vargas - Silva, associate professor and senior researcher at the University of Oxford's Migration Observatory, the economic impact of migrants can be read in two ways: a fiscal impact — taxes and contributions that new arrivals will make, minus the benefits and services they receive — and the impact that they have on the labor market, which is essentially whether native workers will be displaced from their jobs or not.

Its citizens are more vocal, and the government more responsive to their grievances — economic rather than political: the high cost of living, the wide wealth gap and the inflow of migrants.

For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migrants.

Bekele calls for more, including the rescue and economic reintegration of migrant Ethiopians threatened also in Yemen and the Sinai.

It is the result of massive migration in the post-World War II period, which in turn has had a variety of causes: economic and political pressures in the countries from which the migrants came, labor shortages and an easing of immigration barriers in the countries to which they moved, and in the latter countries probably also an easing of the prejudices that had in the past resulted in high barriers (though arguably this new tolerance could turn out to be a temporary phenomenon).

He was the son of «Okie» migrants to California, fleeing economic devastation and treated in their new home as immigrants often are — with stereotypes and derision.

The same principle of nonrandom selection is responsible for part of the non-Christian presence in the U.S.. For example, the population of India is about 12 percent Muslim, but because of both «push» factors in India and «pull» factors (especially economic opportunities) in the U.S., the proportion of Muslims among Indian Americans is probably higher than that for the same reasons — push and pull factors — Jews are greatly over represented among migrants from the former Soviet Union.

As Christopher Caldwell outlines in a Weekly Standard essay («The Migrants of Calais,» March 7, 2016), the winners in the global economy share economic interests with immigrants from the poor world.

A London economic migrant myself (I first arrived here at 23 as a fresh - faced trainee - solicitor), I can not now conceive of living outside its boundaries or tiring of city centre living.

Secondly, crushing majority of the so - called «refugees» are in fact economic migrants, thus neither EU as a whole nor any Member State has any obligation to accept them.

In line with the growing socio - economic and political significance of immigration, Europe has seen a wide range of policy measures aiming at either halting migrants from reaching Europe or deterring them from settling in their preferred countries of destination (Gibney 2004).

We know a lot about the developmental impacts of migrants» economic remittances, but much less about the ideas, identities and practices which migrants send home or carry with them when they return.

The White Paper outlines a vision for a set of migration policies that encourage skilled migrants to come to and remain in Scotland, in order to meet different demographic and economic objectives, which it explicitly contrasts with the present «Westminster approach».

I think it's far worse than that, with shades of Gentile's corporatism); that it has continued the conversion of competing and / or divergent centres of power into a recursive bureaucratic autarchy, emptying out the wider polity of any sort of dialogue or dialectic, shades of Gentile again, and that socially and fiscally it has been profoundly regressive, continuing the marketisation of the severely wounded NHS and of education, also badly bleeding, treating school and university students as «product», not as people; adopting a broadly Powellite attitude to migrants (useful economic fodder, mustn't change the culture, «British jobs for British people»); devising the catastrophe of PFI / PPP within a broader neo-liberal agenda, and so on.

Right - wing populism in Europe has three causes: a general discontent with European integration; economic exclusion; and disaffection and fear of a large influx of migrants and refugees.

Russia has powerful economic tools (restrictions on imports, increases of gas prices, restrictions on migrant labour); this leverage is complemented by more cultural sources of influence: shared language, history and culture, and kinship.

To term the «creation» of jobs out of thin air by spending tax revenues on wages (often paid to economic migrants creating new load on pubic services) an «investment» is an economic deceit.

To give a few examples, apart from those from outside the European Economic Area who can not lawfully work at all, there have been restrictions on migrants from new EU members states (to self - employment for a period of seven years), those on Tier 2 visas (to a named employer), on students (who may work, but not full time or in a profession), and on domestic workers (who may not seek another employer even if abused).

Should the unthinkable happen, and Owen Smith be elected Labour leader, the party would lurch to the right ahead of the 2020 General Election in an attempt to triangulate both the Conservatives and UKIP, being tougher on welfare than the Tories, being tougher on migrants than the Tories, accepting the economic consensus as it is — regardless of how many people it left behind.

According to the Guardian, «the essays, brought together by the IPPR thinktank, also point out that Labour first devised the idea of a points - based system for economic migrants in 2000, but took until 2008 to bring it into being».

He laid out economic integration and respect for the rights of migrants and the money they send home as his nation's key negotiating points.

Britain can not exclude economic migrants from the EU and now the British economy is recovering while the eurozone economy continues to flatline, this type of immigration is increasing.

Senior Tory ministers insist the interim cap on non-EU economic migrants will cut the number of permits available this year by as little as 1,300.

Jack Dromey, deputy general secretary of the TGWU, said the government should adopt «sensible» policies that avoid making criminals out of law - abiding economic migrants.

The Capital Economics report comes two days after figures from Migrationwatch questioned the economic benefit of migrants (full story).

The new research follows a damaging report from the respected Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) which found the majority of migrant workers in the UK sex industry were not forced or trafficked.

Immigration We have agreed that there should be an annual limit on the number of non-EU economic migrants admitted into the UK to live and work.

«Blaming poor people or migrants for hardships at the time of economic crisis is not entirely unknown, but it is not intelligent politics in my view,» he told the Observer newspaper.

«There have been real economic gains from the arrival of young, hard - working migrants from eastern Europe over the past six years.

We have agreed that there should be an annual limit on the number of non-EU economic migrants admitted into the UK to live and work.

This was particularly damaging over the issue of immigration, where de facto the last Labour government encouraged migrants due to the economic benefits, while simultaneously some figures in the Labour party indulged in dog - whistle collusion in anti-migrant sentiment.

While UKIP supported migrants coming to the UK to fill specific jobs - where there were skills shortages - he said economic problems in the eurozone meant the influx of low - skilled labour to the UK was likely to accelerate and questioned the social and cultural impact it had had.

Says Christine Binder - Fritz: «These barriers include language difficulties, a lack of information about the healthcare system, low socio - economic status, migrants» own interpretations of their health problems or culture - specific preconceptions about causes of illness.»

Meléndez projected that Maria's damage to Puerto Rico's physical, social and economic fabric could result in as many as 200,000 migrants to the U.S. mainland over the next 12 months, with many of the new arrivals relocating to Florida, New York and New Jersey — all of which have existing large Puerto Rican communities.

A paper detailing the study, «The Caloric Costs of Culture: Evidence from Indian Migrants,» appears in the American Economic Review.

«Evidence of Ice Age «economic migrants» in Europe to be unearthed.»

«They were re-colonising lands that had been lost for circa 10,000 years — economic migrants in a period of rapid global climate change, if you like.

«So we should probably be using [these economic and climate] models to examine the impact of future climate change on various migrant - employing sectors of the southwestern U.S. economy.»

The papers included in this interdisciplinary special issue address how poverty can affect human biology and cover issues including war and forced displacement, minorities and migrants, poverty in both developed and developing countries, health inequalities among girls and women in poverty and the impact of the economic downturn.

• Common Interests: Most of the illegal African migrants take advantage of this to protect their socio - economic status, a thing that is felt more in the US than Europe.