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Credit: Shutterstock/BOOCYS Every year hundreds of millions of people around the world move to another country, with many of them seeking economic security for themselves and their families. …

Image: Christopher Furlong (Getty Images)Migrants convicted of a crime in the U.K. may soon have to submit five daily facial recognition scans via a smartwatch as part of sweeping new surveillance practices under consideration by the country’s Home Office and Ministry of Justice. Privacy advocates say the always-on surveillance wearable is cruel, unnecessary, and based on technology plagued by inaccuracy and bias.Spoilers of the Week: August 5thA 2021 data protection impact assessment document acquired by The Guardian…

Illegal immigration is disconcertingly rebranded as a kind of Hunger/Squid Games-esque challenge by the teenage boys shown here trying to gatecrash Fortress Europe. “Of course, the game is dangerous. If you fall on a mountain, you will die,” says SK, a 15-year-old who is fleeing Afghanistan. “If you pass, you will win. That’s why they call it the game.” Slapping this pop-culture filter on the harsh realities of globalisation gives this Dutch documentary a high-concept jolt, but in actuality it is probably the only way for…

Unemployment, underemployment, overqualification and working outside nominated occupation, by nominated occupation. Note: Numbers in () indicate sample size. Display limited to occupations with at least 30 visa holders. Occupations sorted in sample size order. Source: GSM Survey. Credit: International Migration (2022). DOI: 10.1111/imig.13030 New research by workforce experts at Flinders University and Charles Darwin…

An aerial view of the abandoned tractor trailer on June 27 in San Antonio, Texas.Photo: Jordan Vonderhaar (Getty Images)Nearly four dozen migrants were found dead inside of an abandoned tractor trailer just outside of San Antonio yesterday.Sixteen people were found still alive in the trailer and were transported to a hospital. There were 12 adults and four children, France24 reported. The people in the trailer are migrants from several countries including Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. The nationality of some of the…

More than 360,000 people left California in 2021, in what some are calling "The California Exodus" — many leaving for states like Texas, Arizona and Washington.And a rising number of former Californians are migrating out of the country altogether and are instead heading south of the border. Many are seeking a more relaxed and affordable lifestyle in Mexico.California continuously ranks high as one of the country's most expensive states to live in. The median asking price for a home in California is about $797,470 — only…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The first protected category of the United Nations refugee convention is race. The 1951 convention defines a refugee as a person who is outside their country of residence or nationality "owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion."…

Betsy Joles / Rest of World: A look at “migrant TikTok”, content by and for migrants journeying to Europe, as platforms struggle to moderate videos referring to illegal smuggling — Videos on the harrowing journey between Africa and Europe offer valuable information — and tease a brighter future for migrants Betsy Joles / Rest of World: A look at “migrant TikTok”, content by and for migrants journeying to Europe, as platforms struggle to moderate videos referring to…

Credit: Columbia University Press When Eli Friedman set out to write his second book, he intended to focus on the segregated education system in China and how it affected teachers' work, but quickly found that the project moved in an unexpected direction. …