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Migrants risk all to cross from Mexico to the US

7/03/2012 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Latin America, Mexico, Migration, North America, United States by Caritas Communications

Human smuggling is a boom business according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, with the profits in the billions (over $32 billion in 2005). Caritas Internationalis says that while every country has the right to regulate immigration, restrictive measures are simply encouraging people to resort to more dangerous and expensive channels of migration.

U-turn Ukraine: There’s no place like home

27/02/2012 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Europe, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration, Ukraine by Caritas Communications

Oxana had left Ukraine to join her husband. He had gone to Brussels to look for work after being made redundant and with the lack of job opportunities at home.

Time to free Rizana Nafeek

15/09/2011 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration by Caritas Communications

Campaigners are hoping that the plight of Sri Lankan death row housemaid Rizana Nafeek could end soon with her release from a Saudi Arabian prison and her return home. Rizana Nafeek was sentenced in 2007 to beheading for strangling a baby she was looking after as a nanny in 2005. Rizana was just a minor ...

Migrants as economic actors

3/08/2011 Advocacy, Blog, Europe, Italy, Labor exploitation, Migration, Refugees by Caritas Communications

By Olga Zhyvytsya, Caritas Internationalis project advisor Financial inclusion promotes social inclusion of migrants in the country of destination – this was the idea that brought together the Italian Banking Association and civil society organisations at the meeting “Migrants and financial inclusion” held in Rome, 14 June 2011. Italy, once a country of origin for ...

American dream ends in mass graves for migrants heading north

11/07/2011 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Latin America, Mexico, Migration, Panama, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

By Fr. Francisco Gallardo, director of the Caritas migrant house at Matamoros, near Mexico’s border with the USA. People leave their homes in search of the “American dream” but they end up coming to us looking for lodging, clothes and help. Many of them arrive completely exhausted. There are people who’ve been kidnapped and who ...

The female face of migration

7/07/2011 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration by Caritas Communications

The Sister* from Caritas Sri Lanka searches for the women migrant workers who’ve returned home abused and traumatised, their dream of saving a nest egg for their families shattered. Chandrangani Gunathilaka’s story is one of the worst the Sister has heard. Chandrangani went to Kuwait as a maid in January 2010, paying agents over $200, ...

Migrants blocked in camps at Libyan borders eager to go home

8/04/2011 Conflicts and Disasters, Domestic servitude, Egypt, Emergencies, Labor exploitation, Libya, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Tunisia by Caritas Communications

Many migrant workers from Bangladesh had been living in Libya for a long time, often for several years. Most of them were employed in the construction sector, in the capital Tripoli but also in Brak, Misurata or Nalut.

Massive departures at the Salloum border camp

23/03/2011 Conflicts and Disasters, Egypt, Emergencies, Labor exploitation, Libya, Middle East & North Africa, Migration, Peacebuilding, Tunisia by Caritas Communications

Yesterday, a lot of people had to pack their stuff at the Salloum border camp. Salloum looked like a crowded, badly-organised coach station. Dozens of buses were obstructing the access to the camp. There has been a lot of movement here in the last days. A lot of people could finally leave.

The story of Samer and Maryam, Palestinian migrants fleeing from Libya

23/03/2011 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in the Palestine, Jerusalem, Labor exploitation, Libya, Middle East & North Africa, Migration by Caritas Communications

Two weeks ago, Samer started his journey back home. From Bengazi in Libya, he left for Egypt. Walking is difficult for the old man, but he wanted to leave Libya while it was still possible, before the city would be surrounded by the government’s troops.

Independence day in Brazil

8/09/2010 Advocacy, Brazil, Labor exploitation, Latin America, Migration by Caritas Communications

By Angela Page Brazil marked Independence day on 7 September. It was a public holiday, a day for celebration. But for many Brazilians it seems that little has changed since colonial times. Some landowners still own farms the size of a small country and continue to wield great power. “With such huge estates it is ...