10 Octobre 2012 The local authorities in Valencia had authorized the creation of two exclusive classrooms for Moroccan children from 3 to 5 years old (at the school La Paz) although having now pushed back the measure. The parents of the Spanish children asked for the North African students to be distributed in the other…
16 June 2012 The “new wave” of Moroccan immigrants arriving in Spain and in the rest of Europe are mostly young, most of them from upper-middle class, and with better qualifications, explained Douglas Massey, a demographer at Princeton University, USA. Massey, a professor in the Department of Sociology at Princeton and speaker of a seminar…
May 18, 2012 On 16 May 2012, Yamina Benguigui was appointed “Delegated Minister in charge of French people living abroad and of Francophonie by the newly elected French President François Hollande and Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault . Her parents are of Algerian origin and immigrated in the 1950s. In the March 2008 French municipal elections…
Reuters – April 25, 2012 Marine Le Pen’s breakthrough in the French election’s first round brought her anti-immigrant National Front (FN) party its highest poll score to date, touching off a round of soul-searching as French elites sought to understand her appeal. But an explanation comes quickly to the sons and grandsons of North…
TUNIS, Tunisia — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton advised an audience in Tunisia on Saturday to “not pay attention” to the comments made by candidates vying for the Republican presidential nomination, saying the often overheated rhetoric of the campaign doesn’t reflect U.S. policy. Speaking at a town-hall style event in Tunisia, the North…
