2011 Week 39 population Immigration & Citizenship Clippings

Commission for population regulation mooted in Kerala
The State-appointed Commission on Rights and Welfare of Women and Children has recommended the setting up of a Kerala State Commission for Children and a Commission for implementation of the Population Regulation Policy in the State. ... India The Hindu
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2482469.ece

South Africa’s population growth slowing
South Africa's population growth has slowed considerably, a progress review of the implementation of the population policy white paper shows. The annual growth rate of 2.1% between 1996 and 2001, and 1.3% between 2001 to 2007, is projected to decline… South Africa Times LIVE

http://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2011/09/22/sa-population-growth-slowing1

Risks Seen for Children of Illegal Immigrants
By JULIA PRESTON Children whose parents are illegal immigrants or who lack legal status themselves face “uniformly negative” effects on their social development from early childhood until they become adults, according to a study by four researchers ...USA New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/us/illegal-immigrant-parents-pass-a-burden-study-says.html?_r=2

Refugee challenges department for 'unfairly barring his family'
A REFUGEE who arrived in Australia as an unaccompanied minor is fighting an immigration ruling denying a reunion with his family. Sayed Abdul Rahman Shahi arrived on Christmas Island from Afghanistan as an unaccompanied minor seeking asylum in May 2009 ...Australia The Australian

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/refugee-challenges-department-for-unfairly-barring-his-family/story-fn9hm1gu-1226147326097

Labour's task is to restore the social contract between public and state
There can hardly be a social contract, implicit or otherwise, if a great number of people resent the State. And the State will always be resented by a great number if it persists with a tax system that widens the gap between rich and poor. ..UK The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/27/labour-social-contract-britain

The 2011 Labour Party conference Ed Miliband blows his big chance to explain ..
ED MILIBAND, the man with the second-best chance of being prime minister of Britain after 2015, this afternoon declared that the country was living through a once-in-a-generation chance to rewrite the terms of the very social contract that binds ..UK The Economist

http://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2011/09/2011-labour-party-conference-0

Tsai pledges to offer social housing for the disadvantaged
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen promised on Friday to set up an exclusive fund for social housing and increase social housing to 10 percent of Taiwan's total housing stock if elected in January 2012. ..Taiwan eTaiwan News

http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=1722822

Asylum seekers 'prevented from lodging cases'
Asylum Screening Unit are preventing claimants lodging complaints, claim Law Society. Photograph: Clara Molden/PA Asylum seekers are being prevented from lodging claims for permission to stay in the UK unless their lawyers threaten legal action, ..UK The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/sep/29/asylum-seekers-prevented-lodging-cases?newsfeed=true

Malta appeals at UN for sharing of asylum-seeker burden from North ...
Malta has urged United Nations Member States to help the Mediterranean island country cope with an influx of refugees and other immigrants who have fled ...Malta UN News Centre
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39810

Real Clear World - Video - Dealing With Demography 55 minutes forum style - excellent
Dealing With Demography. How are extreme demographics changing opportunities and strategies? www.realclearworld.com/.../dealing_with_demography.html

Syria refugees say they are trapped, unsafe in Lebanon
A Syrian refugee woman holds her three-week-old baby, who was born in Lebanon, as she sits on a mattress in an abandoned school where food and shelter are provided by a local charity, in Wadi Khaled area, northern Lebanon September 28, 2011. ... Lebanon Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/29/us-lebanon-syria-refugees-idUSTRE78S24G20110929

U.S. citizenship should not be for sale
U.S. citizenship should not be for sale ... on the basis of his degree in "computer applications" from a so-so college and was later even granted U.S. citizenship. ..USA World Net Daily
www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=349141

International students and the law of unintended consequences

28 September, 2011 | The federal government’s new rules designed to increase student numbers could boost the number of migrants who are permanently temporary, writes Peter Mares in Inside Story

http://apo.org.au/commentary/international-students-and-law-unintended-consequences

The Social Contract
Nobody,” she declared, pointing out that the rich can only get rich thanks to the “social contract” that provides a decent, functioning society in which they can prosper. Which brings us back to those cries of “class warfare.” Republicans claim to be ...USA New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/opinion/krugman-the-social-contract.html

Are housing providers being forced into social policing?
In this latest echo of the division between the deserving and undeserving poor - albeit this time with an added means test - the argument is that the privilege should be lost by those who breach the social contract. Those who are not, or are no longer, ..UK The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/housing-network/2011/sep/20/housing-providers-social-policing

[VIDEO] - Belgium's asylum crisis deepens <<...>>
21/9/11 - Reception centres for asylum seekers are once again full.… Belgian Videozone http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/mediatheek_en/1.1115472

3101.0 Australian Demographic Statistics, Mar 2011
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/3101.0?OpenDocument

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