Global Migrants, Global Refugees

In recent years, influential commentators have stated or strongly implied that the advanced industrial democracies are today being overwhelmed by a host of problems -- including rapid population growth, the breakup of multi-ethnic states, environmental degradation, and increasing economic differentials between the "developing" and the "developed" worlds -- for which no effective solutions are at hand. The migration-inducing potential of these post-Cold War developments has been a particular source of concern. This volume provides a counter-catastrophic view of developments and a more sober and balanced assessment of the challenges that the United States and other industrial democracies face in the sphere of international migration than those offered in recent years.