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No One is Illegal organizer, Harjap Grewal, talks about global migration, guest worker programs and the brewing resistance in what he calls "Fortress North America" at California's San Jose State University this past Spring. Making Contact: National Radio Project

Małgorzata Pruska is living and working in the UK. She left Poland in search of employment, like hundreds of thousands other Poles, after Poland joined the European Union back in 2004. Today, she is working and studying at Oxford. What is her life like on the foreign land? How is she and friends integrating into the intercultural community of modern Britain? Are they homesick? Will they be coming back soon? All this and more in Joanna Najfeld's interview with Małgorzata Pruska on
Polskie Radio's Chat'n'Serious.
Polskie Radio

Saudi Arabia should implement labor, immigration, and criminal justice reforms to protect domestic workers from serious human rights abuses that in some cases amount to slavery, Human Rights Watch said in the 133-page report <<'As If I Am Not Human': Abuses against Asian Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia>> released today. Employers often face no punishment for committing abuses including months or years of unpaid wages, forced confinement, and physical and sexual violence, while some domestic workers face imprisonment or lashings for spurious charges of theft, adultery, or "witchcraft".

What lengths would you go to if you found out that your neighbours were being threatened with deportation? All over the country, UK communities are organising themselves to stop their friends and neighbours being deported.

Rachel Stevenson and Harriet Grant are both journalists – they met up with some of the people involved. In this interview for Refugee Week Radio they talk about what they found and about their film ‘The Resistance: On The Deportation Frontline’ (GuardianFilms).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jun/13/immigration

http://www.refugeeweekradio.net

What are the differences between the World Social Forum on Migrations in Madrid and the Global Forum on Migration and Development, which will be held in Manila at the end of October? How is the civil society movement resisting the paradigm of state-driven policies on migration? William Gois, Regional Coordinator of the Migrant Forum in Asia (http://www.mfasia.org) gives his point of view in an interview by Caroline Ausserer for December 18.

An interview with Atty. Star L. Roman, special assistant to Undersecretary Esteban Conejos of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines. She is responsible for the organisation of the GFMD.

The Philippines has more than 8 million of its citizens spread all over the world, in more than 190 countries. The government established an official labour export programme which transforms every year around one million of its citizens into migrants. They leave their country for the sake of improving their life and the life of their families. A report from Manila by Caroline Ausserer and Rutch Reichstein.

Here, Singaporean Susan Buck's reflections start with an unwelcoming overcast June day and end with the importance of mutual understanding and compromise. A job in the travel industry, bowler hats, leg-pulling and turning heads were allpart of the scene in 60's London.

Originally posted on www.traydio.com

Women are the most vulnerable sector in the migration process, says Leila Rispens-Noel in this interview for December 18, done by Caroline Ausserer in Manila. Leila migrated herself from the Philippines to the Netherlands where she works for Oxfam Novib on supporting migrants' organisations.

www.refugeeradio.org.uk present an interview with a Zimbabwean refugee living in the UK

While much of the news about the global financial crisis has focused on failed Wall Street banks, migrant workers and their families around the world are starting to feel the pain of slower economic growth. VOA - Pros Laput New York, Hong Kong, Philippines.