Recent trends in international migration in Asia and the Pacific / Maruja M.B. Asis.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Asis, Maruja M.B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population and Demography.

Local Subjects:

Population and Demography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 pages)

Contained In:

Asia-Pacific Population Journal Vol. 20, no. 3, p. 15-38 20:3<15 15644278

Place of Publication:

New York : United Nations, 2006.

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text file

Summary:

When the twentieth century came to a close, international migration had become part of the region's economic, social and political fabric. As of 2000, there were 49.9 million international migrants in Asia and 5.8 million in Oceania, accounting for 29 and 3 per cent, respectively, of the 175 million international migrants worldwide. Excluding refugees, the International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that of the 86 million migrant workers worldwide (ILO, 2004:7) some 22. million were economically active in Asia and some 2.2 million in Oceania (27 and 4 per cent, respectively).2 Those numbers reflect the relentless migration that accompanied regional integration and the broader process of globalization on the move since the 1970s. By the end of the century, several migration systems had become firmly established in South-East Asia, East Asia, South South-West Asia, and North and Central Asia (Battistella, 2002; ESCAP, 2002). In the Pacific, migration from the Pacific Islands to core countries, notably Australia and New Zealand, has also been a recurrent pattern in the past decades. Thus in the Asian and the Pacific region, alike elsewhere in the world, international migration has become a structural reality, setting in motion the dynamics for further migration in the years to come. As noted by the participants of the Berne Initiative regional consultation for Asia, held in Guilin, China, on 29-30 July 2004, "The debate in Asia, of course, differs from the one in other regions of the world, not least of which is due to the predominant interest on the continent in the issues surrounding labour migration".

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