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Bringing Humanity Back into International Migration: Anthropological Contributions

Bringing Humanity Back into International Migration: Anthropological Contributions hilip Martin’s paper, “Managing Labor Migration in the Twenty-first Century,” graphically illustrates why international migration is one of the most pressing global issues of our time. According to United Nations estimates, the number of people living outside their country of birth or nationality doubled between 1970 and 2005 to 191 million. The traditional countries of immigration in North America and Western Europe have now been joined by an increasing number of more newly industrialized East/Southeast Asian and Southern European countries which have become net labor importers in recent decades (Tsuda 2006), while international migration within the developing world is also growing. Although the total volume of international migration is still about 3 % of the world’s population, there remain few countries in the world today that are not affected by immigration or emigration (cf. Castles and Miller 2003:5).1 The total volume of international migration will undoubtedly continue to increase in the twenty-first century. The global demographic and economic inequalities that drive migration are widening, causing more people from the overpopulated developing world to migrate to the richer developed countries in search of better economic opportunities and lives abroad (Martin, Abella and Kuptsch 2006:9–10). Advanced industrialized countries have become http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Bringing Humanity Back into International Migration: Anthropological Contributions

TSUDA, TAKEYUKI
City & Society , Volume 19 (1) – Jun 1, 2007
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hilip Martin’s paper, “Managing Labor Migration in the Twenty-first Century,” graphically illustrates why international migration is one of the most pressing global issues of our time. According to United Nations estimates, the number of people living outside their country of birth or nationality doubled between 1970 and 2005 to 191 million. The traditional countries of immigration in North America and Western Europe have now been joined by an increasing number of more newly industrialized East/Southeast Asian and Southern European countries which have become net labor importers in recent decades (Tsuda 2006), while international migration within the developing world is also growing. Although the total volume of international migration is still about 3 % of the world’s population, there remain few countries in the world today that are not affected by immigration or emigration (cf. Castles and Miller 2003:5).1 The total volume of international migration will undoubtedly continue to increase in the twenty-first century. The global demographic and economic inequalities that drive migration are widening, causing more people from the overpopulated developing world to migrate to the richer developed countries in search of better economic opportunities and lives abroad (Martin, Abella and Kuptsch 2006:9–10). Advanced industrialized countries have become

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