Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/148802 
Year of Publication: 
1994
Series/Report no.: 
UNRISD Occasional Paper: World Summit for Social Development No. 9
Publisher: 
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva
Abstract: 
From being a relatively peripheral concern, migration has since the late 1980s moved swiftly up the policy-making agenda to become an issue of public debate. International conferences on migration issues have proliferated, and newspapers and magazines carry lengthy features on migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers almost daily. At the same time, xenophobia and racism have become prominent once again. Migration, however, has long been a feature of the world stage, and during many periods it has been seen as a beneficial phenomenon. Moreover, despite the current anxieties, many still think that migration makes a positive contribution. This paper places human migration and displacement within the context of globalization, economic and political restructuring, and social integration. It demonstrates the ambiguous impact of migration on social integration: the paradox of today's migration is that it is or may be both disintegrative and integrative, both in migrants' countries of origin and destination.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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