IMMIGRATION
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Labour's 'secret plan' to lure migrants - Telegraph
Voting trends indicate that migrants and their descendants are much more likely to vote Labour. The existence of the draft policy paper, which was drawn up by a Cabinet Office think tank and a Home Office research unit, was disclosed last year by Andrew Neather, a former adviser to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett. He alleged at the time that the sharp increase in immigration over the past 10 years was partly due to a “driving political purpose: that mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multi-cultural”. However, the full document was made public only yesterday following a Freedom of Information request by Migrationwatch, a pressure group. A version of the paper was published in 2001, but most of the references to “social objectives” had been removed. In the executive summary alone, six out of eight uses of the phrase were deleted.Islam
«Une politique de contingents migratoires limitatifs serait sans utilité réelle en matière d'immigration de travail, inefficace contre l'immigration irrégulière.» Voilà une formule qui semble enterrer définitivement un dispositif de quotas en France. En tout cas, telle est la principale conclusion du rapport de la commission sur le cadre constitutionnel de la nouvelle politique d'immigration, que Le Figaro s'est procuré. Le 30 janvier dernier, Brice Hortefeux, ministre de l'Immigration, avait en effet confié à Pierre Mazeaud la présidence d'un groupe de parlementaires, juristes, démographes, économistes… afin d'éclairer le gouvernement sur deux questions : comment définir des quotas d'immigration ?
Le Figaro - France : Immigration : le rapport officiel qui conte
cost in social capital
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118510920/abstract by Jun 17
The growing education and employment of women are usually cited as crucial forces behind the decline of marriage since 1960. However, both trends were already present between 1900 and 1960, during which time marriage became increasingly widespread. This early period differed from the post-1960 decades due to two factors primarily affecting men, one economic and one demographic. First, men’s improving labor market prospects made them more attractive as marriage partners to women. Second, immigration had a dynamic effect on partner search costs. Its short-run effect was to fragment the marriage market, making it harder to find a partner of one’s preferred ethnic and cultural background.
immigration & marriage
Using information from the latest U.S. census results, the maps show the extent to which America has blended together the races in the nation’s 40 largest cities. With one dot equalling 25 people, digital cartographer Eric Fischer then colour-coded them based on race, with whites represented by pink, blacks by blue, Hispanic by orange and Asians by green. The resulting maps may not represent what many might expect Barack Obama’s integrated rainbow nation to look like, as many cities have clear racial dividing lines.
Race maps of America | Mail Online
is love colorblind
J UST three decades ago, Thurgood Marshall was only months away from appointment to the Supreme Court when he suffered an indignity that today seems not just outrageous but almost incomprehensible. He and his wife had found their dream house in a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., but could not lawfully live together in that state: he was black and she was Asian. Fortunately for the Marshalls, in January 1967 the Supreme Court struck down the anti-interracial-marriage laws in Virginia and 18 other states. And in 1967 these laws were not mere leftover scraps from an extinct era.
After a year marked by riots over cartoon portrayals of Muhammad, a major terrorist attack in London, and continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, most Muslims and Westerners are convinced that relations between them are generally bad these days. Many in the West see Muslims as fanatical, violent, and as lacking tolerance. Meanwhile, Muslims in the Middle East and Asia generally see Westerners as selfish, immoral and greedy – as well as violent and fanatical. A rare point of agreement between Westerners and Muslims is that both believe that Muslim nations should be more economically prosperous than they are today. But they gauge the problem quite differently.
The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other | P
ASYLUM
Desired destinations
MANY people would like to up sticks and move somewhere better. But according to new Gallup polling data gathered over the last three years, 16% of adults—or some 700m people—in over 130 countries say they would like to start a new life abroad. The most popular destinations specified are wealthy Western countries, though Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are also attractive.
En cautionnant la "discrimination (dite) positive", Nicolas Sarkozy s'inspire implicitement de la pratique américaine . Celle-ci se traduit par exemple, d'après une étude de chercheurs de Princeton , par un "bonus" de 230 points sur 1600 accordé aux étudiants noirs postulant à l'entrée à l'université. Le principe d'une telle discrimination est intrinsèquement choquant. Mais parfois des usages choquants sont nécessaires quand le bien de la société l'exige (la peine de mort, l'expropriation...).
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Affirmative action