'Furious 7' Box Office Success Banks on US Diversity

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New box office formula: fewer gringo actors = more moviegoers. I am not much of a follower of the US film industry, but this story caught m... Continue reading →

First World Migration: Franck Ribery Turns German?

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Having won everything for Germans, Frank Ribery ponders becoming one himself. We often think of migration as a South-North issue: folks from... Continue reading →

EU Dream: 90,000 Jews Seek Spanish Citizenship

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Spain sort of rights wrongs...over half a millennium later. [NOTE: This ain't no April Fool's Day post; see here , too.] We keep hea... Continue reading →

Will Geezerization Cost Finland Another AAA Rating?

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The economic consequences of a top-heavy population pyramid are predictable. After dwelling on the political economy of East Asian depopulat... Continue reading →

Migration & Japan's Half-Black Miss Universe Contestant

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Beauty contest winner Ariana Miyamoto--the face of a modernizing Japan. Time for a weekend feature: a few days ago, Ariana Miyamoto from Nag... Continue reading →

Ruble & Exodus from Russia of the Stans' Migrants

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Only in Moscow is Tajikistan so far away. Here's another one of those interesting side stories to Russia's ongoing economies woes. I... Continue reading →

Nina Pham & Vietnamese Postwar Resettlement

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Vietnamese-Americans in focus. The cruel thing about the Ebola virus is that it infects those who care. Medical professionals, including nur... Continue reading →

Chinese Fleeing PRC: The Hotel California Effect

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There's no getting away from the PRC, mates. There's an excellent article at the WSJ concerning wealthy Chinese leaving the PRC...f... Continue reading →

Pity the Children: 'War on Drugs' Fuels Asylum Seekers

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This train of pain begins and ends in the United States. I am not sure if there is a moral to recent events, but the number of children seek... Continue reading →

US Can Learn From Its Football Vanquisher, Belgium

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US never really had a chance...but Belgium can teach it a trick or three. Ho-hum, another World Cup, another early US demise--this time in t... Continue reading →

From Where Does Silicon Valley Import Its Brains?

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There's an excellent infographic over at Businessweek on where its workforce comes from both inside the United States and outside of i... Continue reading →

Italy, Migration & the "Balotelli Generation"

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Mario Balotelli: Not just a footballer but a poster boy for an entire generation. I cheered England on as it inevitably lost to Italy 1-2 (b... Continue reading →

Japanese Depopulation & Few Foreign Workers

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For all its current woes, there is no doubt that the United States remains an attractive destination for skilled migrant workers. Despite it... Continue reading →

Europe's Refugee Crisis: Made in the USA

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Not being in range of MENA emboldens Americans to #$%^ up the region for others to deal with. How does the saying go... With "friends... Continue reading →

Migration's Goons? Repatriation Companies in Singapore

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[ You may want to play The Clash's " Know Your Rights " for musical accompaniment while reading this .] My, oh my. First we le... Continue reading →

Buying Canadian Citizenship Costs More Now

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The good stuff When it was announced that the British would hand Hong Kong back to the Chinese in the year 1997, there was a flurry among it... Continue reading →

Tens of Trillions of Yen Later, Abenomics is a Dud

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The plight of the developed world is of massive interest to developing countries such as ours for the simple reason that, since we aspire to... Continue reading →

Repopulating Doomsville: Detroit & US Migration

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Followers of international migration know that there is a movement among traditional migrant-receiving nations, usually Anglophone countries... Continue reading →