Full Coverage: Migration

06/29/2007 UNFPA reports on the state of world population 2007 attempts to look beyond the current problems which are real, urgent, poignant and call to action. The Report tries to grasp the implications of the imminent doubling of the developing world’s urban population and discusses what needs to be done to prepare for this massive increase.

06/29/2007 A UN Population Fund (UNFPA) report indicates that more than half the global population, projected at 3.3 billion, will be living in towns and cities by 2008. In Asia the urban population will increase from 1.36 billion to 2.64 billion while Africa's urban population will go up from 294 million to 742 million, and that of Latin America and the Caribbean from 394 million to 609 million.

06/28/2007 "We both have the same blood running through our veins," says a young Mexican-American about her undocumented friend. So why can one get a job while the other cannot?

06/28/2007 Despite losing her bid to become a city council person in Watsonville, California, Mireya Gomez brought many young Latinos into the political process.

06/28/2007 An online magazine created by five friends in Boston brings news and networking to their community.

06/28/2007 Writing about her childhood in the Salinas Valley, Rose Castillo Guilbault describes the migrants, the men who came alone, the families, and one "special friend."

06/28/2007 Host Alexander Zevelyov brings trademark zeal to interviews with pop stars, debates over San Francisco streets, and the identity dilemmas of Russian immigrants.

06/28/2007 OneWorld and New America Media bring you the voices and stories of those at the center of the political firestorm.

06/28/2007 Growing up, I recall my mother hardly being at home. She left for work at ten in the morning and returned home at eleven at night. It wasn't that my mother was neglecting me; she was doing what was needed in order to survive.

06/28/2007 Thirty years after fleeing Vietnam, Andrew Lam rediscovers old family letters and tries to recognize the childhood innocence he left behind and decides to write a letter addressing his young self.

06/28/2007 After seven years of struggle and $10,000, Ernesto Javier is finally getting his legal status.

06/28/2007 Teens in the Central Valley of California have seen hundreds of immigrants detained in ICE raids. These are some of their thoughts.

06/28/2007 With close to 9 million Poles in the United States, it would seem a natural for young Poles to come here looking for work, but for various reasons, they are saying "Who needs America?"

06/26/2007 NEW YORK, Jun 26 (OneWorld) - As the U.S. Senate voted today to resume debate on its immigration reform bill, a new poll brings the voices of those at the heart of the debate -- undocumented workers themselves -- into the mix.

06/13/2007 Despite all the talk (and shouting), how much do we really understand about what causes people to move from one country to another? Get your questions answered by experts and advocates.