Nearly 200 million people now live outside their country of birth. But the patterns of migration that got them there have proven difficult to project.

Illegal immigrants now have the luxury to come forward and schedule their own deportation. A pilot program started on Tuesday aims to give cooperative illegal immigrants an easy way out. There has been a lot of bad talk over the way illegal immigrants are treated during the process of arrest and deportation.

A Mexican immigrant was beaten to death by white teenagers in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. By the time people came to help it was too late. Friend of Mexican Immigrant beaten to death in Shenandoah, PA gives eyewitness account of the brutal attack.

Australia's immigration detention policy has seen a rather unusual relaxation of the tough policies.

The European parliament has passed tough new immigration guidelines that sparked protests on the part of human rights groups and some lawmakers. For VOA, Lisa Bryant has more from Paris.

Thirty-six-year-old Professor Eske Willerslev, University of Copenhagen, and his team of fossil DNA researchers have done it a couple of times before: rewritten world history. Most recently two months ago when he and his team discovered that the ancestors of the North American Indians were the first people to populate America, and that they came to the country more than 1,000 years earlier than originally assumed.

Mobs rampaged through poor suburbs of Johannesburg in a frenzy of anti-foreigner hatred over the weekend, killing at least seven people, injuring dozens and forcing hundreds to seek refuge at police stations.

Houstonians are increasingly concerned about immigration and its effects on the region, according to the latest annual Houston-Area Survey. This finding comes, however, as the same survey finds Latino immigrants are quickly assimilating into U.S. society.

If you read the papers, you probably have the wrong idea about how you are most likely to catch a disease like tuberculosis (TB).

Britain has long been a haven for immigrants, from highly skilled workers from Europe and the United States to those coming from developing countries to escape political persecution or find a better life. Many of those immigrants come from former British colonies in Africa and Asia, and some find their welcome is not what they expected.

Immigration has emerged as one of the most controversial issues in American society and politics in recent years.The latest voice in the ongoing debate comes from Hispanic-American reporter Geraldo Rivera.

Record numbers of skilled workers migrating to Australia have helped make immigration account for more than half of the country's latest population growth.