By : JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS One August morning nearly two decades ago, my mother woke me and put me in a cab. She handed me a jacket. “Baka malamig doon” were among the few words she said. (“It might be cold there.”) When I arrived at the Philippines’ Ninoy Aquino International Airport with her, my [...]

..it might be time to return back home … as the popular saying goes : – no matter how far away you roam, there’s no place like home!     About three weeks ago, while I was in the heat of preparing and participating in some eight seminars as part of my Masters Degree programme, [...]

Skilled immigrants are returning to their native countries to start businesses. The author of a new study examines the motivations of Chinese and Indian returnees—and urges the U.S. to fix immigration policy to get them back By Vivek Wadhwa In a speech last week to Facebook employees, President Obama discussed the role immigrant entrepreneurs play [...]

The direct and indirect repercussions that the late Osama bin Laden’s actions in masterminding the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 have had on the agencies, policies and attitudes affecting immigrants in the United States are far too many to mention in a short list. The attacks led to the dissolution of the federal immigration infrastructure at [...]

Immigrants from eastern Europe have added almost £5bn to Britain’s economy since 2004, according to a new report. The National Institute for Economic and Social Research says 700,000 people moved to the UK after their former communist homelands joined the EU. It believes they drove up British GDP by 0.38% in the years to 2009, [...]