The Global Economic Crisis and Migration: Where do we go from here?
- Document number
- 2759
- Date
- 2011
- Title
- The Global Economic Crisis and Migration: Where do we go from here?
- Author/publisher
- International Organiation for Migration (IOM)
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Migrant rights; Migration management; Comprehensive approach to migration; Migration policy; Restrictive migration measures,
- Summary
- Chapter 1 of the book starts with a detailed discussion of the world economic background that shaped the recent recession and explains the dynamics and ramifications of the crisis. The discussion seeks to discern its effects on jobs,wages and workforces, including trends in poverty and inequality worldwide. This is followed in chapter 2 by an analysis of its impact on the pattern an policies of international migration. Chapter 3 then takes up the question of how these changes are likely to affect migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries and the world economy. This leads to chapter 4, which puts forwarda set of specific policy and operational measures to meet the potential perils and pitfalls embedded in the recession-driven changes in migration. The book concludes with a look at the future of world migration. It foresees
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