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The April 2005 issue examines the long-term impacts of the tsunami, the dimensions of immigrant entrepreneurship in the US, and declining global asylum numbers. Our feature story highlights challenges facing domestic workers, and Poland joins our country profile library. This month you will find:

- a survey by the International Organization for Migration's Frank Laczko and Elizabeth Collett of how Asia's tsunami disaster has mobilized diaspora groups and shifted immigration policies, as well as its longer-term effects on international migration.

- an exploration into the special risks faced by migrant domestic workers in Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates, by Gloria Moreno-Fontes Chammartin of the International Labor Organization.

- an overview of the latest asylum numbers and insights as to why they are declining, by MPI Director Kathleen Newland.

- a spotlight by MPI's Jeanne Batalova and David Dixon on the importance and dimensions of the foreign-born self-employed, a group that comprises approximately one-tenth of the foreign born in the US.

- a Poland country profile by Krystyna Iglicka of the Center for International Relations in Warsaw, exploring how one of the European Union's newest members is confronting its complex role as a transit and receiving country.

- our monthly Policy Beat by MPI's Jennifer Yau, reporting on the immigration-related impacts of recent North America summit talks, a proposed ICE and CBP merger, the International Court of Justice, and more.

- Three new resources, including a study by the Pew Hispanic Center on the estimated size and characteristics of the undocumented population.

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Kimberly Hamilton, Ph.D
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