· UK in top ten countries worldwide for attracting skilled migrants
Global ranking unveiled as Prime Minister seeks tighter immigration controls
The UK is seventh in the world for its ability to attract, develop and retain highly-skilled migrants, a report has found.
The study, the Global Talent Competitiveness Index, by Adecco Group, international business school INSEAD and the Human Capital Leadership Institute, found the UK had retained its 2014 spot as the seventh most talent competitive country.
Also holding their places from 2014 were Switzerland (first place), Singapore (second), Luxembourg (third), the United States (fourth) and Sweden (sixth). Jumping from eighth in 2014 to become the fifth most talent completive country in 2015 was Denmark.
The UK ranked fourth among countries most likely to attract businesses with foreign ownership and seventh as the country most likely to attract international students. However, it ranked lower for other factors, including 56th for attracting female graduates and 71st for the gender earnings gap.
Relief agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Tuesday denounced theEU's "catastrophic failure" last year to help waves of asylum seekers, demanding that safe transit corridors be provided for them.
The Medecins Sans Frontieres report adds to a litany of complaints about how the European Union and its 28 member states responded to the worst migrant crisis since World War II.
A series of defensive and haphazard efforts only made matters worse, MSF operations director Brice de le Vingne said in a statement.
Ethiopian migrants held in Tanzania
Tanzanian police have arrested more than 80 Ethiopian migrants believed to be heading to South Africa.
The 83 migrants were found crammed into the back of a lorry that was headed towards the Tanzania-Malawi border.
Most were dehydrated and could have died if they had not been found, said local police chief Peter Kakamba.
Tanzania has become a key staging post for people fleeing drought and conflict in Ethiopia and Somalia, and trying to reach South Africa.
"We had to have a team of nurses to put them on drips, they were starving, very weak, they were lying on top of each other in that lorry," said Mr Kakamba.
"They were in such a bad condition, if we had delayed in finding them, they would have suffocated and lost their lives."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-35347771
This Pitti Uomo Fashion Show Enlisted African Asylum-Seekers As Models
Meaningful political statements in fashion don't happen as often as we'd like. But when they do, people definitely pay attention. Just take Generation Africa for instance—a fashion show that sent three asylum-seekers down the runway at the end of Pitti Uomo last week.
According to AFP, the event was organized by the ITC Ethical Fashion Initiative and Fondazione Pitti Discovery. It was intended to promote four up-and-coming designers and brands that hail from the Mother Continent: AKJP, Ikiré Jones, Lukhanyo Mdinigi x Nicholas Coutts, and U.Mi-1. The concept, in and of itself, was pretty noble. But what really had the industry buzzing was the decision to cast three men who are attempting to get refugee status.
According to a press release by Lai-momo, an organization that assists African migrants, the three men are from Gambia and Mali, and are between the ages of 19 and 27. They have each been in Europe since May of last year and are currently going through the asylum application process.
http://uk.complex.com/style/2016/01/generation-africa-pitti-uomo-asylum-seekers-models
Davos: Europe Migrant Crisis Just Beginning, 'Imagine One Billion'
According to Davos leader Klaus Schwab, an impending global economic crisis may very well provoke a tsunami of immigration into Europe that will make today's waves of immigrants look like mere ripples.
Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), believes that the plummeting prices of commodities signals an economic disaster for the entire developing world, which will have devastating effects on population displacement.
"Look how many countries in Africa, for example, depend on the income from oil exports," Schwab said in an interview prior to the WEF's 46th annual meeting, scheduled to begin in Davos later this week. "Now imagine 1 billion inhabitants, imagine they all move north."
As a solution, Schwab advocates a greater sense of solidarity with the developing world, with the awareness that economic programs that benefit one country eventually benefit all. In order for reason to triumph, Schwab surmises, "we have to re-establish a sense that we all are in the same boat."
Theresa May set to charge firms employing skilled migrants £1,000 levy
Home secretary aims to cut flow of skilled non-EU migrants by 20% a year, but scheme could hit nurses and teachers hard
A new £1,000-a-year immigration skills levy is expected to be introduced on all firms for each skilled migrant they recruit from outside Europe, under a new crackdown ordered by the home secretary, Theresa May.
The skills levy first suggested by David Cameron is part of a package recommended by the government's migration advisory committee (MAC) that could see the flow of skilled non-EU migrants cut by 20% a year and could hit the recruitment of overseas nurses and teachers the hardest.
The government's labour market experts say most skilled migrants from outside Europe bring scarce new skills to Britain and are higher paid than their British counterparts, but that there are some jobs – especially in the public sector, such as doctors, nurses and teachers – where they undercut UK salaries by up to £6,000 a year.
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They recommend that the squeeze on the recruitment of skilled labour from outside Europe, currently running at 151,000 people a year, should include a sharp rise in the minimum salary threshold for jobs filled from overseas from £20,800 to £30,000.
Adecco chief: Europe needs immigrants to fill its tech skills void
Europe is going to face an unprecedented shortage of digitally skilled workers by 2020.
One of the only ways to plug that gap is to encourage more immigration, according to Adecco's CEO Alain Dehaze who spoke to Business Insider during the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2016 in Davos, Switzerland.
The conference is used as a platform for world leaders, business and industry executives, and representatives from academia, civil society, media, and arts to help shape global agendas when it comes to global economics, security, public health, education, gender parity, and climate change.
Four-year EU benefits ban could change, Philip Hammond says
The government's only goal is to deter EU migration, the foreign secretary tells Patrick Wintour
Britain is willing to look at alternative measures to a four-year ban on access to in-work benefits provided they help to reduce EU migration to the UK, the foreign secretary Philip Hammond has said.
Hammond said: "There is no magic about four years. It is just a figure that we calculated would provide a sufficient deterrent. We are looking to deter people."
Calling Britain's key demand of the four-year ban a "second-order approach", Hammond said the negotiation package must mean the high-water mark of Brussels' interference in UK national life has been reached.
The two main alternatives – which could possibly be applied alongside the ban on in-work benefits – are an emergency brake applied if migrant numbers pass a particular threshold and put exceptional pressures on public services or a redefinition of "workers" so as to narrow the range of people across the EU who would have access to benefits.
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A new EU-wide minimum earnings threshold or a residency requirement to meet the definition of worker might satisfy the UK and ensure nervous EU governments are not criticised by their angry electorates for not doing as much as the UK to stem migrant flows.
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