The Swedish center-right government coalition is split over a controversial school proposal from the Liberal Party - calling for obligatory attendance of immigrant girls in sports, swimming, sex education and school trips - even if the parents are opposed on religious or cultural grounds.

A new proposal from the Swedish government wants to make it compulsory for girls from an immigrant background to take part in sex education.

A Swedish Radio news survey concludes that half of Swedish local governments provide no mother-tongue education for immigrant and refugee youngsters - because of the lack of teachers.

The Swedish government wants to tighten the rules for Swedish language lessons for newly arrived immigrants.

An increasing number of asylum seekers decide to stay in Sweden despite their cases being rejected.

The Swedish government has announced that it’s seriously considering requiring immigrants to have jobs and housing before being allowed to bring in family members to join them.

More than two years after violent suburban riots tore through France, the country's president Nicolas Sarkozy will unveil an ambitious plan Friday to turn around some of the poorest and grittiest towns that are home to many African and Arab immigrants.

Sweden saw a dramatic increase in the number of people seeking asylum in 200

The value of the U.S. dollar has dropped about 20 percent against a basket of major currencies in the last five years. This decline has been especially tough for immigrants who work in the United States and send money to their families back home. As Nathan King reports from New York, these dollar remittances are key for the economies in many developing nations.

Immigrants population in Canada have grown four times faster with one in five people in the country last year was born in another country, the highest proportion since the 1930s.

A study of more than 400 children of first-generation immigrants is among the first longitudinal studies to demonstrate that one’s ethnic identity forms prior to adolescence. Furthermore, the three-year study found that a child’s positive sense of ethnic identity is associated with the desire to socialize with children of different racial and ethnic backgrounds.

In America we have some of the best medical care in the world, but the same high quality care isn't available to everyone. Government programs insure the elderly and the poor. For the rest, it's usually either private health insurance through their jobs, or no health insurance at all. An estimated 47 million people in the United States have no health insurance, and many of them are immigrants.