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International Data

International Data

Country Migration Profiles
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Globally, more than 258 million people are international migrants—a number that continues to rise as advances in transportation and communication have increased the capacity and desire to move. Migration today is more widely distributed across more countries. The data-rich research offered here, based on credible sources, sketches migration flows, the sending of remittances, admission levels, enforcement actions, and more for countries around the world.

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December 1, 2002
Portugal Seeks Balance of Emigration, Immigration
By Jorge Malheiros
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November 1, 2002
Cape Verde: Towards the End of Emigration?
By Jørgen Carling
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October 1, 2002
Migration Dilemmas Haunt Post-Soviet Russia
By Timothy Heleniak

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January 1, 2004
Cook Islands: Migrating from a Micro-State

Paul Spoonley describes a massive economic and cultural shift caused by emigration from the Cook Islands to New Zealand.

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December 1, 2003
Moldova Seeks Stability Amid Mass Emigration
Moldova is a small country facing huge emigration spurred mainly by economic hardships, according to Michael Jandl.
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November 1, 2003
Hungary: Transit Country Between East and West

Judit Juhasz of examines the forces that have made Hungary into a sending, transit, and destination country for migration.

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November 1, 2003
Turkey: A Transformation from Emigration to Immigration

Long a country of emigration, immigration, and asylum, Turkey has also become a country of transit for immigrants, according to Kemal Kirisci of Boagazici University.

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October 1, 2003
Belgium's Immigration Policy Brings Renewal and Challenges
Marco Martiniello and Andrea Rea examine how immigration has made Belgium a multicultural society in perpetual renewal.

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Articles
December 1, 2002

Portugal Seeks Balance of Emigration, Immigration

Portugal, long a land of seafarers and emigrants, is now witnessing increasingly diverse immigration flows, country-wide settlement, and rising immigrant skill levels. Jorge Malhieros of the University of Lisbon takes an in-depth look at the changes.

Articles
November 1, 2002

Cape Verde: Towards the End of Emigration?

Very few countries have experienced emigration on a scale approaching that of Cape Verde. Jorgen Carling of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) examines migration's effects on the country's past and present, as well as its implications for the future.
Articles
October 1, 2002

Migration Dilemmas Haunt Post-Soviet Russia

As Russia enters the 21st century, it is confronting a set of migration issues unimaginable just a decade ago. Timothy Heleniak of the World Bank and Georgetown University's Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies maps out the complex past and difficult present of the world's largest country.

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