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Lilia Casanova
Introduction:
Migration is a Global Phenomenon
UN Findings: The number of international
migrants around the world has expanded very
rapidly over the past decade.
Migration
is a Global Phenomenon
Migration is a Global
Phenomenon
Key questions :
What are the reasons why people are
compelled to migrate?
What are the impacts of migration?
What are the issues behind migration
and how can these be addressed?
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Impacts of migration:
Motivate the need to protect and help people
who migrate - a task that requires individual
States and international institutions to
cooperate and act collectively.
Most international migrants are from
developing countries but migration does not
just occur from the South to the North.
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Migration is a Global
Phenomenon
Impacts of migration
Migrant workers send home every year
US$250 billion in remittances, more
than all official development assistance
and foreign direct investment put together.
(ILO)
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Migration is a Global
Phenomenon
Who are migrants?
There are some 914,000 asylum seekers
worldwide. (WHO, 2003)
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Category of migrants
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