This study offers a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of global patterns of international migration and the policies employed to manage the flows. It shows that international migration is not rooted in poverty or rapid population growth, but in the expansion and consolidation of global markets. The insertion of non-market societies into global networks of trade unleashes structural transformations that displace people to create migrants. Globalization also creates infrastructures of transportation, communication, and social networks to put developed societies within reach.

• 1.: J. Edward Taylor and Douglas S. Massey: Introduction


• Part I: Prospects


• 2: Hania Zlotnik: Population Growth and International Migration


• 3: Marek Okólski: The Effects of Political and Economic Transition on International Migration in Central and Eastern Europe


• 4: Aderanti Adepoju: Trends in International Migration in and from Africa


• 5: Graeme Hugo: International Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region: Emerging Trends and Issues


• 6: Alicia Maguid: Immigration and the Labor Market in Metropolitan Buenos Aires


• 7: Philip L. Martin: Mexican Migration to the United States: The Effect of NAFTA


• 8: Min Zhou: Immigrants in the U.S. Economy


• Part II: Policies in Sending Nations


• 9: J. Edward Taylor: Remittances, Savings, and Development in Migrant-Sending Areas


• 10: Graeme Hugo and Charles Stahl: Labor Export Strategies in Asia


• 11: Manolo I. Abella: The Role of Recruiters in Labor Migration


• 12: Graziano Battistella: Return Migration in the Philippines: Issues and Policies


• 13: Richard Bedford: International Migration, Identity, and Development in Oceania: A Synthesis of Ideas


• Part III: Policies in Receiving Nations


• 14: Guillermina Jasso: Policies and Immigrant Skills: Evidence from the U.S. Immigrant Cohorts of 1977, 1982, and 1994


• 15: Catherine Withol de Wenden: Admissions Policies in Europe


• 16: Daniele Joly and Astri Suhrke: The New European Asylum Regime


• 17: Martin Baldwin-Edwards: Immigrants and the Welfare State in Europe


• 18: Michael Fix and Wendy Zimmermann: The Legacy of Welfare Reform for U.S. Immigrants


• 19: Frank D. Bean and David A. Spener: Controlling International Migration through Enforcement: The Case of the United States


• Part IV: Prospects and Policies Reconsidered


• 20: Douglas S. Massey and J. Edward Taylor: Back to the Future: Immigration Research, Immigration Policy, and Globalization in the Twenty-First Century

J. Edward Taylor is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. He was an Appointed Member to the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform from 1995-97, and is author of a number of publications on migration.
Douglas S. Massey is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs, Princeton University. He is author of a number of publications on migration, Latin American society, and urban sociology.