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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
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It is indeed very inaccurate for Nigerians in the homeland to even begin to think that diasporan Nigerians do not care anymore about their homeland. They haven’t really abandoned ship, because not only do the diasporas still dream of an eventual ‘home coming’, they also have members of their immediate families and friends living in Nigeria with whom they maintain regular contacts, such that complete dissociation becomes impossible. |
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Sunday, 14 October 2007 |
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The Socialist leader François Hollande has questioned the cost of the scheme, and said there were better ways to prove family links than generalised testing. Immigrant welfare groups described the plan as unacceptable. One warned it could lead to dire consequences for France's diplomatic relations with other countries. Daniele Lochak, a former president of GISTI, a group providing information and support for immigrants, suggested that procedures would be abused. "It's obvious that applicants who refuse [DNA tests] will have every chance of having their visas refused," she told Le Monde. |
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Thursday, 09 August 2007 |
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Despite their European presence Africans are frequently denied belonging in the European space and their movement into Europe is increasingly problematised and associated with politics of securitization. In all our regions (particularly in Sicily) African migrants have become part of the local social and economic fabric, which shows that even remote regions and outposts of the EU can no longer be imagined as monocultural. |
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Thursday, 26 July 2007 |
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The 2000 Census recorded 881,300 U.S. residents who were born in Africa. By 2005, the number had reached 1.25 million, according Brookings Institution researcher Jill Wilson. Since 1990, the African population has more than tripled in places as far-flung as Atlanta, Seattle and Minneapolis, where Africans now constitute more than 15 percent of the black population. The biggest magnets are New York City and greater Washington, including its Maryland and Virginia suburbs; Wilson estimates that the African-born population in each area has soared past 130,000. |
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Wednesday, 25 July 2007 |
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The 1990 population census (the most recent available offering a racial breakdown) puts the city’s white population at 3.1 million, it’s Asian population at 500 000, it’s “Black” population at 2.1 million and it’s “Hispanic” population at 1.8 million. Of course these figures are dated, and the proportion of black and Latino residents is substantially higher, by all accounts. The terms “Black” and “Hispanic” however, are a little confusing: The overwhelming majority of those New Yorkers termed “Hispanic” are from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean islands of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Cuba. And here, of course, is one of the best-kept secrets of the African diaspora–Caribbean Latino cultures have maintained their deep roots in Africa. Demographically and culturally then, New York reveals itself as a substantially African metropolis. |
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Tuesday, 24 July 2007 |
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In the five-year period ending in 2005, the number of African-born immigrants living in central Harlem increased by two-thirds, to about 6,500, nearly a sixth of them from French-speaking Senegal. Along with soft drinks and toothpaste, bodegas and delis carry items like an African bleaching cream used to lighten the skin, a malted milk beverage called Nestle Milo that is popular in West Africa, and cans of egusi, melon seeds that are the base of a pungent soup laden with vegetables. |
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Sunday, 29 April 2007 |
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Do African immigrants make the smartest Americans? The question may sound outlandish, but if you were judging by statistics alone, you could find plenty of evidence to back it up. In a side-by-side comparison of 2000 census data by sociologists including John R. Logan at the Mumford Center, State University of New York at Albany, black immigrants from Africa averaged the highest educational attainment of any population group in the country, including whites and Asians. |
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Sunday, 13 November 2005 |
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This paper was written on June 1, 1999. |
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