Migrants
Japan to Recruit One Lakh Bangladeshi Workers: An Opportunity or a Risk to Bilateral Trust?
In late May 2025, Tokyo announced that it would welcome one lakh (100,000) skilled workers from Bangladesh over the next five years. This initiative will be formalized through memoranda of understanding (MoUs) between the Bangladesh Bureau of Manpower, Employment, and…
Iran’s Mass Expulsion Of Afghans Poses A Dilemma For Many Of Its Supporters
Most of them are opposed to the expulsion of any illegal immigrants, yet self-censoring their criticism of Iran’s policy discredits their criticisms of Trump’s similar one, while acknowledging the “Weapons of Mass Migration” pretext upon which Iran’s policy is premised…
PPFA Slams Media for Propagating and Mystifying the Term ‘Bengali-origin’
Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA), a forum of nationalist citizens in northeast India, while appreciating the State government for its decisive actions to regain thousands of encroached lands from the clutches of illegal settlers, has also emphasized on proper…
Trump’s Immigration Plan Is A Human And Economic Disaster
I understand the urgent need to reform our immigration policy to streamline the current chaotic and disjointed immigration laws. However, Trump’s approach to addressing migration will gravely affect the health of the economy, to which immigrants are indispensable. Expelling hard-working…
Launch of the 2nd International Decade for People of African Descent in the Asia Pacific Region
How many African diaspora communities live in Asia and the Pacific region? An official UN document states that there are no official statistics available on the demography of people of African descent living in Asia and the Pacific region. However,…
SOS Humanity condemns end of search and rescue NGO-funding by German federal government
The managing director of SOS Humanity, Till Rummenhohl, comments on the discontinuation of financial support for civil search and rescue by the German Federal Foreign Office and the media reuse of a false claim made by today’s Foreign Minister Johann…
Greece: Court acquits 11 asylum seekers accused of human smuggling
A ruling destined to mark a turning point in European case law: the court on the island of Samos has acquitted 11 asylum seekers of charges related to facilitating irregular immigration. The accusations stemmed solely from the fact that they…
General Assembly on Administrative Detention: A Critical Debate in Milan
On 23–24 May, the Centro Internazionale di Quartiere (CIQ), an intercultural hub located in the Corvetto district in southeast Milan, hosted the fourth edition of the “General Assembly on Administrative Detention” (Stati Generali sulla Detenzione Amministativa). Organised by the Association…
India’s deport “illegal” Muslims into Bangladesh
India is increasing diplomatic pressure on Bangladesh after the Pakistan-India conflict following the Pahalgam massacre of Hindu tourists. It could not be ascertained whether the Pahalgam issue of unprovoked deportation has any connection with India’s Muslims targeted for speaking Bangla.…
From Tule Lake to the Border: The Enduring Violence of the Alien Enemies Act
Satsuki Ina on Ending the Alien Enemies Act Photos of my father and other Japanese Americans brutalized in the Tule Lake Segregation Center in 1945 chillingly resonate with the treatment of Venezuelans by the U.S. government today. Invoking the Alien…
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