Managing Migration

This ground-breaking study explores the issues and prospects of a multilateral response to the challenge of international migration. It presents within a single, cohesive framework, the views, perceptions, and critical analyses of a group of eminent specialists drawn from different disciplines but with an in-depth knowledge of migration issues.
The present international migration system is failing to respond to the challenges and opportunities that movements of people now present. Rising levels of migration and its increasingly complex pattern - marked by economic globalization, a widening variety of source countries and unpredictable and intense flows - is making migration management more and more difficult Fears have been expressed that a breakdown of the migration system, already under heavy strain, could spell political and economic disaster, creating in its wake a major setback in human progress. Not surprisingly, there have been calls for the establishment of a more robust and comprehensive multilateral framework to help revamp the fragmentary and predominantly reactive arrangements. But little systematic work has been done to develop this idea. This study takes up the challenge In this text, the issues and prospects of a multilateral response to the challenge of movements of people is explored. It presents, within a single, cohesive framework, the views, perceptions, and critical analyses of a group of eminent specialists drawn from different disciplines but with an in-depth knowledge of migration issues. It argu