Australia says its rural migration program failing
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9:29 08/11/2005
An Australian federal Government review finds that the country's skilled migration programs are failing in regional Australia, with almost a quarter of foreign workers unemployed and low wages and...
Survey finds educated workers leave poor nations
17:24 25/10/2005
Poor countries across Africa, Central America and the Caribbean are losing sometimes staggering numbers of their college-educated workers to wealthy, industrialized democracies, according to a World...
EU needs immigration to support ageing population
11:50 25/10/2005
The European Union needs substantial but controlled immigration, said Joaquin Almunia, the EU economic and monetary affairs commissioner. Mr Almunia, a Spanish socialist, called for active labour...
UK immigration hit record high in 2004
17:23 21/10/2005
Immigration to the UK hit a record high in 2004, new statistics have revealed. A total of 494,100 non-Britons migrated to the UK, an increase of 21% on the 2003 figure of 406,800. As reported earlier...
New trends in migration to the UK: report
13:58 20/10/2005
New figures show that about 111,000 workers came to the UK from the new EU countries in the past year. That figure is up from 20,000, the number that arrived before EU enlargement in May 2004. The...
The UK releases migration consultation document
9:40 17/10/2005
The UK has released a managed migration consultation document. Click on the PDF file to view the consultation document in its entirety as released by the UK Home Office. Consultation document (PDF...
