MIGRATION AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS. Dr. Harold Mignott (second right), immediate past chair of the Jamaica Diaspora Advisory Board/Northeast USA and a physician in residence at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, discusses the role of migrants and the diaspora community at a seminar hosted by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) at the Permanent Mission of Nigeria New York on Thursday, May 21, 2009. The outcome document from the seminar will be part of the UN Human Development Report due out in October this year. Panelists included (l-r); Sarah Rosengartner, UNITAR/NY; Prof. Lindsay Lowell, Georgetown University; Lorena Mucabuag, Migrant Forum in Asia; Mignott and Dominique Bush, Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR). - JIS Photo by Sharon Bennett.