African Immigrants

Your Wad Is My Bond: Are Diaspora Bonds Worth the Risk for Diaspora Africans?

Dele Meiji Fatunla | Posted 05.27.2012

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Dele Meiji Fatunla

Where remittances are often sent in response to family and community needs, diaspora bonds are a direct investment in the economy at the national level. Even though they are being explored for the first time by African governments, the idea of issuing diaspora bonds is not new.

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Homeward Bound: Are Africans Leaving the U.S.?

Atim Oton | Posted 01.09.2012

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Atim Oton

Since 2001, I have periodically reconsidered why I am still here and the last three years even more so. Between terrorism and the financial crisis, most Africans, even from war-ridden countries are reconsidering.

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Why Do Blacks Earn Less?

Algernon Austin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Algernon Austin

At the end of the day, it turns out that being black matters. Two new reports that I co-authored show that neither education, skills nor culture fully explain the black-white wage disparities.

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African Immigrants In Italy: Slave Labor For The Mafia

TIME | Nina Burleigh | Posted 05.25.2011

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Xenophobes in homogenous European countries often complain that immigrants will erase their most precious cultural norms. The race riots in southern I...

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Aching for Immigration Reform

Venkat Srinivasan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Undocumented Immigrants, Queens, African Immigrants, Ghana, Nigeria, 2008 Democratic National Convention, Bronx, Deportation, United African Congress, New York News
Venkat Srinivasan

While the economy dominates all issues, African immigrants continue to hope that immigration reform does not fade into oblivion either.

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A Voice in Diversity

Venkat Srinivasan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Venkat Srinivasan

At a community center in the Bronx, African immigrants help young students deal with the pressures of life in the United States.

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EU Plans To Admit More Refugees

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

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The European Commission has unveiled plans to allow more refugees from conflict zones and poor nations into European countries....

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