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Up to 340,000 foreign workers may flow into Japan under new visa system

Kyodo News
Posted at Nov 13 09:18 PM

Between 260,000 and 340,000 foreign workers are estimated to flow into Japan in the five years from next April through an envisioned immigration control law revision aimed at dealing with the country's serious labor crunch, government sources said Tuesday. Read more »

Central American caravan continues toward US after rest

Yemeli Ortega, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 11 09:01 AM

Around 5,000 Central Americans left Mexico City at dawn Saturday, brushing exhaustion and illness aside to get back on the road towards the United States as part of a migrant caravan that has drawn fury from President Donald Trump. Read more »

OPINION: A Bicolana Fil-Am heads the Institute of Texan Cultures

Buddy Gomez -- Cyberbuddy
Posted at Oct 15 04:48 PM

Since March of 2012, the Institute of Texan Cultures has had for its executive director, Ms. Angelica Docog. She happens to be the first female executive director of the Institute and also the first Latina-Asian to hold that post. Read more »

With border open, Ethiopia and Eritrea are back in business

Chris Stein, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 14 11:18 AM

For 2 decades, little besides soldiers, refugees and rebels moved across Ethiopia and Eritrea's closed border, but today the once-barren no man's land teems with activity.  Read more »

Extortion and abuse: Myanmar workers arrive debt-laden in Thailand

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 04 02:52 PM

YANGON, Myanmar - A "mafia" of recruitment agents is trapping Myanmar migrants to Thailand in debt bondage despite a 2017 law meant to fight exploitation in the kingdom's notoriously shadowy job market, activists and workers say. Read more »

7 menor de edad na ipapadala sana sa Saudi, nasagip sa Pasay

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 10 03:06 PM

Sinalakay at ininspeksiyon ng NBI ang isang ''accommodation house'' sa Pasay City kung saan umano ibinabahay ng isang agency ang mga recruit. Read more »

A Venezuelan family's desperate journey

Rodrigo Almonacid, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 30 12:47 AM

On foot, by bus, on the backs of juddering trucks, like tens of thousands of others they slogged for days along the Pan-American highway through Colombia and Ecuador.  Read more »

On foot, Venezuela's poor seek better lives across South America

Anastasia Moloney, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Aug 27 11:49 PM

With rampant hyperinflation - the International Monetary Fund forecasts Venezuela's inflation could reach 1 million percent by year's end - the monthly minimum wage barely covers the cost of a kilo of rice or flour. Read more »

Poland may take Filipino workers: minister

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 29 08:09 AM

Poland, whose right-wing government opposes taking in migrants, may have to look to Filipino workers to cover a growing labor shortage hurting the economy, a senior official said Saturday. Read more »

U.S. says 463 migrant parents may have been deported without kids

Tom Hals and Reade Levinson, Reuters
Posted at Jul 24 09:04 AM

More than 450 immigrant parents who were separated from their children when they entered the United States illegally are no longer in the country though their children remain behind, according to a joint court filing on Monday by the federal government and the American Civil Liberties Union. Read more »

OPINION: The invisible Filipino, and a young man named Alphonse Areola

Jijil Jimenez
Posted at Jul 22 07:44 PM

The question is not whether our children and future children would want to be Filipinos because they are, but whether they would still want to despite it. Read more »

PH, 191 countries agree on pact to manage mass global migration

Ellen Wulfhorst, Reuters
Posted at Jul 14 06:40 PM

The non-binding agreement aims to make migration safe and orderly amid issues of national sovereignty and international cooperation, UN officials said. Read more »

Only some migrant families to be reunited in U.S. as deadline arrives

Reuters
Posted at Jul 11 01:52 AM

NEW YORK - Facing a court-imposed deadline on Tuesday, the U.S. government has said it expects to have reunited 54 young children and parents separated by immigration officials after crossing into the United States from Mexico. Read more »

1,000 Pinoy nars kailangan sa Saudi; requirements mas pinadali : POEA

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 06 09:38 PM

Hindi man singlaki ng sahod sa Europa ngunit mas madali naman daw ang rekisito para makapasa dahil hindi kasinghigpit ang qualifications na kailangan sa Saudi.  Read more »

Mga nais mag-Kuwait, di pa rin makaalis kahit wala nang 'ban'

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 03 07:50 PM

Paliwanag ng POEA, pagkatapos kasi ng pirmahan ng MOU ay kinailangan pa nilang maglabas ng resolusyon at implementing rules and guidelines. Read more »

US government says it will detain illegal migrant children and parents together

Reuters
Posted at Jun 30 02:17 PM

The US government said in a court filing on Friday that it has the right to detain children and parents caught crossing the US border illegally for the duration of their immigration proceedings. Read more »

Undocumented mothers file lawsuit to be reunited with kids

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 27 09:12 AM

LOS ANGELES - Three undocumented migrant mothers filed a lawsuit Tuesday against President Donald Trump's administration, demanding to be reunited with the daughters they were forcibly separated from after crossing the Mexican border to seek asylum. Read more »

Migrants 'knock at front door' for asylum after Trump crackdown

Anthony Esposito and Lizbeth Diaz, Reuters
Posted at Jun 25 02:58 PM

More Mexicans and Central Americans are lining up to make asylum requests at the US-Mexico border as word spreads of a US crackdown on families crossing illegally and the threat of brutal gangs lying in wait if they go it alone. Read more »

Pope criticizes Trump administration policy on migrant family separation

Philip Pullella, Reuters
Posted at Jun 20 05:33 PM

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has criticized the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border, saying populism is not the answer to the world's immigration problems. Read more »

Bumubuting relasyon ng Pilipinas at Kuwait, ikinatuwa ng OFWs

Maxxy Santiago, ABS-CBN Middle East News Bureau
Posted at May 10 07:22 PM

KUWAIT CITY – Nakatakdang pirmahan ng Kuwait at Pilipinas sa Biyernes ang kasunduan para sa proteksiyon at deployment ng Filipino household service workers dito. Read more »