DEMETRIOS G. PAPADEMETRIOU is Director, Immigration Policy and Research, Bureau of International Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C. His previously published books include The Unavoidable Issue: U.S. Immigration Policy in the 1980s
, Exploration into the Social and Labor Market Incorporation of Undocumented Aliens in the New York Area
and The Effects of Immigration on the U.S. Economy and Labor Market. He has contributed over fifty articles and book chapters to such publications as Environment and Planning, Comparative Politics, International Migration, Comparative Political Studies, and International Social Science Journal.
PHILIP L. MARTIN is Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of California, Davis. He specializes in labor market analysis and immigration.

Foreword by Diego C. Asencio
Introduction
Conceptual and Theoretical Issues in International Labor Migration
Labor Migration and Development: Research and Policy Issues by Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Philip L. Martin
Labor Migration: Theory and Reality by Philip L. Martin
Labor Migration and Development in Africa
Binational Communities and Labor Circulation in Sub-Saharan Africa by Aderanti Adepoju
International Labor Migration in Southern Africa by Timothy T. Thahane
Labor Migration and Development in Greece and Turkey
Migration and Development in Greece: The Unfinished Story by Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Ira Emke-Poulopolos
Migration without Development: The Case of Turkey by Ali S. Gitmez
Labor Migration and Development in Asian Emigration Countries
Migration from Pakistan to the Middle East by Shahid Javed Burki
Emigration and Development in South and Southeast Asia by Charles Stahl and Ansanul Habib
Labor Migration and Development in Latin America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
The Effects of International Migration on Latin America by Sergio Diaz-Briquets
Caribbean Emigration and Development by Patricia R. Pessar
The Unsettled Relationship between Migration and Development
Migration and Development: The Unsettled Relationship by Demetrios G. Papademetriou
Immigration and Economic Development by the Commission for the Study of International Migration and Cooperative Economic Development
Appendix: Social Indicators of Development
References
Index

More than twenty million migrant workers send $40 billion to their countries of origin each year, making labor second only to oil as the most important commodity traded internationally. The essays contained here deal with this unsettled sociopolitical issue--international labor migration and its relationship to economic development--seeking to determine the effects of recruitment, remittances, and return migration on labor-exporting countries. Many analysts, sending-country governments, employers, and migrant workers feel that countries with unemployed workers should, if possible, export them to countries with labor shortages. Remittances from migrants and returning workers who were trained abroad should stimulate economic growth enough to reduce unemployment and pressures to emigrate. It was projected that within a decade or less, labor-importing countries would emerge from the labor-shortage phase of their development. However, migrant workers have become a structural feature of the economies in Western Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, and the United States: emigration does not promote development in the sending countries. This collection of twelve chapters by experts in the field examines the conceptual and theoretical issues in international labor migration and looks at the relationship between migration and development in Africa, between Mediterranean countries and Europe, between Asian labor exporters and Middle Eastern importers, and the effects of emigration on Latin America and the Caribbean.
In addition to comprehensive introductory and concluding sections, Conceptual and Theoretical Issues in International Labor Migration and The Unsettled Relationship between Migration and Development, the volume is divided into four additional sections that scrutinize labor migration and development in Africa, Greece, and Turkey, Asian countries, and Latin America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The book's recurring theme states that there is no iron law of migration-induced development: recruitment, remittances, and returns do not automatically generate stay-at-home development. This first thorough and comparative treatment, with its focus on the population, social policy, labor market, language, and foreign policy implications of recent and present policies, will be invaluable for courses on refugees and migrants in sociology and comparative public policy. Research libraries and international assistance organizations will find it an indispensable resource.