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30 April 2012

Cuba: Diaspora Reacts to Ferrer García's Release

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

Cuban prisoner of conscience Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia was released over the weekend. Diaspora bloggers comment on this most recent development.

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Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana: Is “Miss Black France” Acceptable?

Written by Fabienne Flessel · Caribbean

While French people are still in the midst of the presidential elections, with its second round coming up on May 5-6, bloggers in the French overseas territories were buzzing about another vote this past week: the “Miss Black France” contest.

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29 April 2012

Refugees: Online Media and Technology to the Service of Refugees

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia

Two different organizations are using online media and technology to aid refugees and improve their lives. The first uses online and mobile tools to reunite refugees who have lost track of family members, and the other provides legal information to refugees in Hong Kong through YouTube videos.

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24 April 2012

Ecuador: Refugee Women and Girls Turning to Sex Work

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Latin America

A video documentary examines the situation with Colombian women who had to migrate across the border into Ecuador due to violence. In many cases, without being able to gain legal employment, the women and their underage daughters find themselves turning to sex-work to make a living.

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19 April 2012

Egypt: “Blog About Nubia” Day

Written by Ahmed Awadalla · Middle East & North Africa

In an attempt to highlight the situation of the Nubian community in Egypt and to challenge stereotypes about them, a day of blogging and tweeting about their cause took place on April 18.

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17 April 2012

Cuba: Diaspora Blogs About Dissidents

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

The plight of prisoners of conscience is a front-burner issue with Cuban diaspora bloggers. This week, they are talking about two in particular: Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, a former member of the Black Spring “Group of 75″ and Andres Carrion Alvarez, the man who was detained after shouting, “Down with Communism!” prior to the start of a mass during Pope Benedict XVI's recent visit to the island.

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Iran: Turning a Page on Racism Against Afghans

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa, Central Asia & Caucasus

Rumors that Afghans living in Isfahan, Iran had been banned from picnicking in a park during Iranian New Year celebrations, caused an uproar online with Iranians expressing solidarity with Afghans against racism.

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15 April 2012

Cuba: Uproar Over Ozzie Guillen's “Love” for Fidel Castro

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle · Latin America

Across digital and mainstream media, in the United States and Cuba, Miami Marlins baseball team manager Ozzie Guillén's comments on Fidel Castro unleashed a searing debate between baseball fans, political junkies, Cuban-American Miamians, and Cubans themselves.

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Sweden: Visiting Rinkeby, Stockholm's Immigrant Ghetto

Written by محمد العامر · Translated by Mohammed Alamer · Middle East & North Africa, Western Europe

The Rinkeby district of Stockholm, Sweden is famous for its high concentration of immigrants. Curious outsiders have documented their visits.

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6 April 2012

Is Basketball's Jeremy Lin the Light of Taiwan?

Written by bonniefly · Translated by Chris Kamp · East Asia, North America

From a benchwarmer to an NBA player who led the New York Knicks to seven consecutive victories, Jeremy Lin's inspiring Cinderella story has incited “Linsanity” in Taiwan. All major newspapers have extravagantly portrayed him as "the light of Taiwan." However, many Taiwanese bloggers are wary of this kind of blind idolatry.

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Updates about Migration & Immigration

12 April 2012

Egypt

Architect and researcher Omnia Khalil, has published this presentation as a part of Egyptian urban action [Ar], an exhibition and workshop scheduled for 4 July, 2012. It concerns advocating for the residents of informal neighbourhoods and highlights urban deterioration, forced evacuation and urban challenges in Egypt. In this video [Ar] we hear from some of the people facing forced evacuation. The workshop also aims to amplify their voices so they can participate in policy making.

• محمد عادل

Ukraine

GV Author Tetyana Bohdanova, who blogs at Good Girl Gone Ukrainian, writes about a video created as part of the campaign [cs] for the rights and better treatment of Ukrainian migrant workers in the Czech Republic. The video [cs] shows a Czech teenager yelling at the Ukrainian cleaning lady who had misplaced his math homework; the cleaning lady, identified as Ljuba Grigorenko, ends up solving the young man's math problems very quickly: she used to work as a math teacher in Lviv before circumstances forced her to take a menial job abroad.

• Veronica Khokhlova

9 April 2012

China

Ali from Offbeat China discussed the impact of overseas Chinese students to China upon their return. The discussion in major overseas Chinese student web forums indicate that rather than the assumption that these students would be exposed to fundamental value changes and help China to develop political reform, many take advantage of the social capital stemmed from current system to better their lives.

• Oiwan Lam

2 April 2012

Jamaica

“Yes, the crime rate and garrison communities are atrocious. Yes, the decline in public morality is a cause for concern. But there are bright spots that shine beyond Jamaica's geographical boundaries”: Diaspora blogger Geoffrey Philp highlights one of them.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

South Korea

South Korean immigration authorities blocked three Greenpeace staffers from entering the country. Kumi Naidoo, international executive director of Greenpeace tweeted about the incident and his several tweets are rapidly translated in Korean.

• Lee Yoo Eun

28 March 2012

Guadeloupe

Guadeloupean blogger B.World Connection posts about the release of a book about the first non-white Mayor of Paris, who accomplished much towards secularity and social progress in the 19th century French Republic, yet fell into complete oblivion until now.

• Fabienne Flessel

14 March 2012

Senegal

The blog Afro Europe reports on a new film about the black community in France: ” Noirs de France” (”Blacks of France”) is a new documentary of the history of black people in France. It's based on the book “La France Noir” of French historian Pascal Blanchard. The documentary is aired on France 5 in 3 episodes and will be will be available on DVD on 20 February 2012. A traveling exhibition is also on the program.”

• Abdoulaye Bah

5 March 2012

Cuba

More discussion about the Pope's visit to Cuba - Havana Times reports that members of the Cuban diaspora plan to come to the island “to participate in Masses that will be officiated over by Pope Benedict XVI”, while Along the Malecon posts a video of the leader of Las Damas de Blanco reading a letter the the pontiff.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

4 March 2012

Thailand

Migration is the chosen theme for the very first Asia Youth Forum organized by the International Debate Education Association, which will be held in Thailand this coming May

• Mong Palatino

2 March 2012

Colombia

The Cartagena International Film Festival [es] awarded one of its India Catalina awards in the category of New Creators in Short Films to the documentary short Mu Drua (My land) by Mileidy Orozco Domicó of the University of Antioquia [es]. The documentary, in the Embera tongue, follows the struggles of a young woman forced to migrate due to conflict from her land to the city of Medellín in Colombia.

• Juliana Rincón Parra