![]() ![]() She works as an immigration policy analyst with MPI, focusing on issues in Asia and Africa.Īgunias’ story is a familiar one in the United States. Her area of expertise: international development. That opened another door to attend graduate school at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. “And the money I made allowed me to return to the Philippines and enroll in college.”Īgunias went on to earn a degree from the University of the Philippines. I worked in a factory and as a domestic worker,” she explained. “Years later, when I was old enough to work, I went to Iceland myself. In her case, however, Agunias found it would lead to opportunities in her life she had never expected. The thought of leaving home is never a first option for migrants. It was the only way the family was going to have the financial means to continue. “As a little girl, my mom came and told us that, because my father was too sick to work, she would have to get a better paying job,” Agunias said.Īlthough her mother already had a job as a nurse, “She wanted the family to consider allowing her to move to Iceland, where she could make as much as the president of the Philippines,” said Agunias.Īlthough the plan was sold as a family decision, Agunias says what was unspoken is that decision had already been made. Growing up in the Philippines, the Agunias’ family had to make a tough decision every migrant has considered. She came to her calling through personal experience. “Our challenge,” said Newland, “Is to make migration work for developed and developing countries, and to make it an empowering experience for people.”ĭovelyn Rannveig Agunias also delivers this message to governments in her work with Newland at the Migration Policy Institute. “In an era of globalization, it’s an economic issue the same as trade and finance,” said Kathleen Newland co-founder of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) in Washington. On a macro level, policy makers have sold legal economic migration as a valuable tool for development. Migrants often care for the youngest and oldest members of society,” Ban noted. “In advanced and emerging economies, they play an indispensable role in agriculture, tourism and domestic work. “Immigration can be a force for good for individuals as well as countries of origin, transit and destination,” said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in commemorating International Migrants Day last year. To the contrary, overwhelming evidence indicates migrants make vast contributions – not only to their host nations, but to their home countries as well. ![]() Among them are persistent beliefs that migrants are a burden on host nations, even dangerous. There’s more racing and a lot of pop songs ( Cyndi Lauper, Simple Plan) and it all concludes with some life lessons about why sharing is more important than winning, though winning's pretty great, too.Migrations from Australia, New Zealand and Islands in Oceania.īut there are still societal roadblocks fueled by false assumptions about migrants that prevent the free flow of international migration. This leads to a little bit of Spy Kids investigation, leading to a rematch. That makes it easy for Zac to mess with Frankie's sled-building plans.ĭuring their first race, Frankie's elaborate sled mysteriously collapses just before the finish line. Zac has a cousin, a svelte girl driver and aspiring singer, Charly, whose flirty presence turns Frankie's big shy mechanic friend into a distracted mess. The plot concerns the arrival of a challenger, the sneering Zac, who twirls a candy-cane in his mouth like a cigarette holder and seems to have an unlimited budget for gadgets. He creates elaborate sled designs in his lab in the barn's basement, to be driven by Sophie, who he’s sweet on. The animation, too, is lively if generic and features characters with stubby bodies, pipe-stem legs and spikey hair plus lots of white snowscapes.Īt the centre of the story is egocentric boy genius, Frankie Four-Eyes (the French name, Francois Les Lunettes, doesn’t sound like an insult) who has one square and one round glasses lens. Racetime is a lively if somewhat bewilderingly busy story with a lot of characters who spend their time in an abandoned barn without any hint of adult supervision. The "tuques" phenomenon has extended to books, toys, and a "mini-tuques" spinoff television series. The story was remade as a 2015 animated film Snowtime!, which also topped the Quebec box office. ![]()
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