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...other West European countries and the U.S., says Erasmus migration expert Han Entzinger. In Rotterdam itself, the figure rises to 45%, and in some neighborhoods - and many schools - it is much higher. To promote integration, the Netherlands in 1998 began requiring new immigrants to take mandatory Dutch lessons. As asylum seekers choose other destinations, their annual rate of entry to the Netherlands has dropped from 50,000 in the mid-1990s to about 33,000 last year. Nevertheless, says Entzinger, "the sheer numbers have changed things. Integration is working, but so slowly people can't see it, and they...
...April 16, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday will publish "Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T.S. Eliot, and the Long-Suppressed Truth About Her Influence on His Genius" by Carole Seymour-Jones. According to the publisher, "By the time Vivienne Haigh Eliot was committed to a mental asylum in 1938, it had been five years since her husband, poet-genius T. S. Eliot, had left her, years in which she had stubbornly refused to believe the truth that he despised her and would never return... 'Painted Shadow' is not only the first-ever biography of this long scapegoated...
...single, official labor union still face harsh penalties. Cao Maobing, for example, tried to set up a union at his state-run silk mill in eastern China's Jiangsu province two years ago. Local officials apparently decided that was a lunatic idea: Cao was involuntarily committed to an insane asylum for six months and abandoned organizing...
...wind. "They aim for visibility," says Christian Séchaud, of the Lausanne police, and to scare dealers off the streets, albeit temporarily. Arrest, he says, is not an option because the cocaine dealers - the vast majority of them in this part of town are West African asylum seekers - are "untouchable." For a start, drug use is not illegal in Switzerland, and possession of .2 grams or less of cocaine doesn't warrant arrest. Also, Swiss law treats seriously its obligations not to repatriate asylum seekers who claim their lives would be in danger in their home countries. "When these...
Last week it was Australia's turn. Khan was there to mark International Women's Day and wasted no time in criticizing Prime Minister John Howard's government's policy of mandatory detention of asylum seekers. Howard, who was hosting the Commonwealth heads of government, claimed to be too busy to meet her. But in sessions with Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock and the Attorney General, Khan urged them to reconsider a policy she says is "contrary to Australia's human-rights obligations." Her meeting with Amnesty member Ruddock elicited special attention, with press reports speculating on whether Khan would...