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The Roma of Eastern Europe: Still
Searching for Inclusion
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Over one million Roma, Europe's largest ethnic minority, became EU citizens in May 2004 when
eight former communist states joined the EU. But their second-class status persists, as Arno
Tanner of the Finnish Directorate of Immigration explains.
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The US Refugee Program in Transition
In addition to post-September 11 security concerns, the US is dealing with less predictable refugee flows.
David Martin of the University of Virginia School of Law reports.
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Spotlight |
The Foreign Born in the Armed Services
The foreign born in the armed forces represent approximately five percent of the total on active duty. Jennifer Yau from the
Migration Policy Institute updates data on the foreign-born members of the military.
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Have You Read... |
IRCA: Lessons of the Last US Legalization Program
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Mary G. Powers and William Seltzer of Fordham University, together with Ellen
Percy Kraly of Colgate University, examine in detail the long-term impact on immigrant integration of a key US legalization law.
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New This Issue - May 2005 |
The May 2005 Source explores the US Refugee Program's responses to changing world trends, the Roma in
an expanding Europe, and immigrants in the US military. We offer two country profiles on the UK and Norway, and continued
coverage of US immigration policy developments.
Click here for more from Managing Editor Kim Hamilton.
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Country Profiles |
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Since the 1970s, Norway has become home to thousands of non-European immigrants and refugees.
MPI's Betsy Cooper takes a detailed look at how the country seeks to control migration while keeping the
door open to labor from an expanding Europe.
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With immigration a hot political topic, the UK government is trying to prove it is meeting labor market needs
while tightly controlling flows, according to Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah and Francesca Hopwood Road of the
Institute for Public Policy Research in this updated UK profile.
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Policy Beat |
MPI's Betsy Cooper reports on the new US passport requirements, the Arizona Minuteman project, the latest REAL
ID Act developments, and more. Full Story
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