Stalker's guide to international migration

Below are some of the latest international news stories on migration and refugees, taken from Inter Press Service. If you click on the titles you will be taken to the full story on the IPS site. To return to this guide, please use the 'back' button on your browser.

GREECE: Migrant Workers in Historic Strike
ATHENS, May 8 (IPS) - It was a day when migrant workers said they had had enough.

POLITICS-US: Is Immigration Off the Table in Election 2008?
OAKLAND, California, May 6 (IPS) - These days, while you can still pick up a newspaper or turn on a radio or television gabfest and read, hear and see the issue of immigration batted around, it has become less of a hot-button political issue in the United States.

PARAGUAY: Torture Victim Still Fears Colorado Party ‘Mafia’
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 5 (IPS) - The Colorado Party has become a "criminal mafia" during its 61 years in government in Paraguay, and it will continue to be a force to be reckoned with in spite of its defeat in last month’s elections, says Anuncio Martí, a Paraguayan citizen living in exile in Brazil.

RIGHTS: In South Africa, Zimbabwean Refugees Find Sanctuary and Contempt
JOHANNESBURG, May 4 (IPS) - As the autumn sun sets over South Africa's most populous city, the halls of downtown Johannesburg's Central Methodist Mission fill with weary figures, many far from home, seeking solace within its walls.

Q&A: "We Mustn't Think as South Africans That We Have Won the Day"
JOHANNESBURG, May 4 (IPS) - Bishop Paul Verryn, who directs the Central Methodist Mission in Johannesburg, South Africa, has long been on the frontlines of the country's political struggles.

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