[LINK] Some population links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Exchange Morning Post reports that in 2004, 1.1 million Canadians lived in other OECD countries, mostly those like the United Kingdom and Poland with long-established migration links.
  
• The Taipei Times announces that the Taiwanese government is trying to boost the country's very low TFR. Curiously enough, not only does Taiwan host four hundred thousand foreign spouses (my guess: overwhelmingly women), but more than one child in ten is born to "cross national families."


• The Miami Herald carries the news that 2007 was the second year in a row in which Cuba's population declined, thanks to a below-replacement fertility, the rising death rate characteristic of an aging population, and emigration (nearly 5% of the country's population has left since 1996).


• Over in Spain, Romanian immigrant Costel Busuioc has won what seems to be the Spanish equivalent of American Idol.


• The head of the International Organization for Migration has suggested that the fixed-term work contracts that the Gulf states extend to migrants is something that the West should copy.


• Finally, Sweden's English-language The Local explores the phenomenon of Dutch migration to Sweden in the fetchingly titled article "Dutch ditching dykes for Dalarna".