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“The global economic crisis has devastated workers around the world, none more than migrants whose daily wages are dependent on the whims of global financiers. Witness Dubai. Even before the meltdown of Dubai World, migrants whose labor literally built Dubai from the ground up suffered serious job losses with the onset of the global recession in [...]

Nisha Varia, senior researcher in the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, says, “Governments seem to forget that when men, women, and children migrate, they don’t leave their rights at home. Instead of protecting people who already are at special risk of abuse, many governments further marginalize migrants, punish them, or push [...]

Did you often wonder at how those tiny birds literally fly from one continent to the other? They do this twice a year migrating from a cold place to a warmer place. A new study conducted by a group of researchers Wojciechowski and colleague Berry Pinshow at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland revealed that the birds reduce their night time [...]

Vibrant economies are fueled by human capital. Today, in the age of globalized economy, that much-needed human capital is composed, to some extent, of migrant labor that has come about due primarily to the phenomenon of migration. The bigger economies of the world thrive on migrant workforces. Those who espouse anti-immigrant sentiment do not see the [...]

Prior to its publication next month, The Independent on Sunday was able to access the 6,700-paged report entitled 2009 State of the Future which is ‘backed by a diverse range of leading organizations such as UNESCO, the World Bank, the US army, and the Rockefeller Foundation.’ The report, composed of contributions from 2,700 experts around the [...]

Cuba responded positively to the U.S. proposal to reopen negotiations on Cuban immigration to the United States, halted in 2004 by President George Bush. The U.S. offer was a new gesture of openness of the Obama administration which attempts a cautious and gradual approach with the Castro regime. Cuba also accepts the U.S. proposal to establish direct [...]

Singapore has one of the most conducive business climates in the world. If you wish to migrate to Singapore and set up your own business on the city-state, you will find that the country makes it easy, encouraging, and favorable for people like you. The country is strategically located on the cusp between the developed West and the potentially developing [...]

Marketing has moved away from macromarketing and into the age of micromarketing. The underlying concept is market segmentation, and the overall mission is to better serve a diversity of markets. What marketers are trying to do is identify segments within the marketplace where they can position their products. Market segmentation is not a fad. The underlying [...]