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Refugee and Asylum Seekers

Submitted by brittanyyu on

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bodyontheline.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/on-refugees/

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Refugee and Asylum Seekers

The main refugee problem lies around the middle east; especially b/c of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian refugee camps are dispersed all around in neighbouring countries. Refugees are also in the poorer countries, esp sub-Saharan African countries in Africa due to issues like government instability, problems with ethnicity, climate change, droughts, desertification, poverty, etc. where people have no choice but to take refuge in neighbouring countries.These refugees are under the temporary protection of UNHCR.

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Working Under the Radar

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http://philebersole.wordpress.com/tag/illegal-immigrants/

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Working Under the Radar

This chart describes the different occupations that illegal immigrants participate in and the percentage of unauthorized workers in each sector. The highest number of unauthorized workers: construction labourers because manual labour doesn’t need a high level of education and lower salaries are better than none

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Human Trafficking Pie Chart

Submitted by brittanyyu on

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http://holliamea.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/40/

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Human Trafficking Pie Chart

Prostitution (46%) is the largest sector and domestic servitude is 27%. 1/2 of the people into US so their children can have a ‘better life’. Most people are from East Asian and Pacific countries to US. But this situation is not just happening in the U.S. for there are a total of 800,000 people trafficked per year. The result of this issue restricted migration rules.

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Human Trafficking and Smuggling

Submitted by brittanyyu on

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http://marysanyuosire.blogspot.com/2011/01/human-trafficking-vs-human-smuggling-as.html

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Human Trafficking and Smuggling

As more people are leaving their country of origin to go work/study abroad or to have a better life, the country of origin is left with less qualified people causing the country to become weaker hence accentuating poverty, corruption in the government, etc. Human smuggling and trafficking ‘feeds on poverty’ and it creates ‘greater restrictions to legal immigration.’ Global rules are needed because people are doing whatever it takes to live a better life.

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Unemployment rate for foreign-born workers

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http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2010/ted_20100324.htm

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Unemployment rate for foreign-born workers

This could be partially caused by economic recession. The largest gap: Hispanic or Latino population: 4.5% difference. The smallest gap: White population: 2.7% difference. Lower skilled jobs would be the first to go. A large population of less qualified immigrants are from Hispanic countries. And the population of higher skilled immigrants are mostly from European and Asian countries.

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Brain Drain Index

Submitted by brittanyyu on

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http://www.saworldview.com/article/brain-drain

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Brain Drain Index

This chart represents the percentage of graduates planning on staying in US as opposed to returning to their country of origin.The countries’ percentage of doctoral grads that plan to stay in US are mostly from China, India, Iran, Nepal. The highest percentage of graduates from foreign countries planning to stay are mostly from east and south Asia of 79.2%. Consequences are that the countries of origin lack people with high skills; e.g. many doctors and nurses in Jamaica left to gain a higher wage/salary which is beneficial to the host country but not so much for the country of origin.

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Infographic On The Energy-Water Collision: How Hot, Dry Summers Impact Water and Power Generation

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Max Frankel
Infographic On The Energy-Water Collision: How Hot, Dry Summers Impact Water and
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Every year, the United States consumes more than 3 trillion KWh of electricity. This power is generated by coal-fired power plants, nuclear plants, solar panels, hydroelectric damns, wind turbines, geothermal wells, and other sources and it requires water to produce.

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Aquaculture Tries to Fill World's Insatiable Appetite for Seafood

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Aquaculture Tries to Fill World's Insatiable Appetite for Seafood
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Total global fish production, including both wild capture fish and aquaculture, reached an all-time high of 154 million tons in 2011. Wild capture was 90.4 million tons that year, up 2 percent from 2010. This followed a 1.6-percent decline from 2009 to 2010. The 2011 global capture figure nearly matched the 2007 total of 90.3 million tons, which broke a four-year pattern of declining global wild capture. Since the late 1980s, however, wild capture production has essentially stagnated.

 

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