Immigrants in France send some eight billion euro (9.6 billion US dollars) a year back to their countries of origin, often paying exorbitant fees - though the French government has announced moves to lower tariffs.
Noting that remittances by migrants totaled more than the national development aid budget, French immigration minister Eric Besson endorsed an agreement Wednesday between money-transfer company MoneyGram International and local French firms.
The agreement aims to expand fund-transfer services to tobacco shops, the largest network of sales points in France that already sell such products as top-up cards for mobile phones and tickets for the bus and metro. Read more
Showing posts with label immigrants. Show all posts
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Sunday, 13 June 2010
Monday, 29 December 2008
500 more immigrants arrive in Italy
More than 500 illegal immigrants arrived on Italian shores Sunday as opposition lawmakers attacked Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition government for failing to tackle the problem.
Some 253 illegally entered the country on Sunday morning by arriving on the southern island of Lampedusa, with a further 300 arriving on the neighbouring island of Linosa later in the day.
"The government's strategy on illegal immigration has been a miserable failure," said Marco Minniti, a senior figure inside the Democratic Party. Read more
Some 253 illegally entered the country on Sunday morning by arriving on the southern island of Lampedusa, with a further 300 arriving on the neighbouring island of Linosa later in the day.
"The government's strategy on illegal immigration has been a miserable failure," said Marco Minniti, a senior figure inside the Democratic Party. Read more
Thursday, 21 June 2007
A positive view of immigrant works
By Bernardo M. Villegas
FILIPINO overseas workers confer untold benefits to the Philippine economy, earning more than US billion annually, stimulating expenditures (especially on housing) and relieving the unemployment problem. The social costs are also well known: Divided families and neglected children, a disincentive to work for the relatives left behind, and unproductive uses of the remittances. There are serious efforts of both the government and civil society to mitigate the social costs. The various Churches have initiatives to take care of the immigrants while they are abroad. I have seen laudable programs of Catholic priests and lay people attending to the needs of Filipino workers in Barcelona. [Read more]
FILIPINO overseas workers confer untold benefits to the Philippine economy, earning more than US billion annually, stimulating expenditures (especially on housing) and relieving the unemployment problem. The social costs are also well known: Divided families and neglected children, a disincentive to work for the relatives left behind, and unproductive uses of the remittances. There are serious efforts of both the government and civil society to mitigate the social costs. The various Churches have initiatives to take care of the immigrants while they are abroad. I have seen laudable programs of Catholic priests and lay people attending to the needs of Filipino workers in Barcelona. [Read more]
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