International migration in the UNECE region: patterns, trends, policies

In: International social science journal: ISSJ, Heft 165

Abstract

The 1990s has been a turbulent decade for international migration in Europe. While recorded movements have declined in recent years in Western Europe, major questions surrounded the frequency of unrecorded and irregular migrations which many believe are steadily increasing in number, though the evidence is problematic. Discusses how important migration is; what the patterns and trends are; how significant new and unrecorded types of flows are; what dilemmas are presented to the managers of the UNECE migration systems. (Original abstract - amended)