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Labor export and the introduction of foreign experts have played an important role in China since it launched reform and open door policy in 1978. The article discusses China's economic environment since then, the policies and mechanisms attendant to labor export and the introduction of experts, and presents data on international migration. Labor export is subsumed under the larger framework of economic growth. Thus, exporting labor is supplementary to the introduction of new technologies, infrastructure development, and improving the management of enterprises. To facilitate the introduction of new technologies and to improve the management of enterprises, the Chinese government encourages foreign experts to work in China. The government is against irregular migration and seeks to avoid brain drain.

Awareness of the potential impact of emigration on the sending country has been increasing in Latin America during the 1970s. Colombia is the first country in Latin America with high emigration rates that has begun to develop a systematic immigration policy. The policy consists of programs aimed at retaining potential emigrants, channelling and regularizing migratory flows, and providing assistance to migrant workers and their families. This article discusses the context and application of these programs.

This paper summarizes the latest information on both stocks and flows of migrants in Europe, focusing specifically on arrivals from developing countries. It starts out by setting this into its historical context by showing how flows of labour migrants were followed by flows of family members, and later by asylum seekers and refugees. Then it looks more closely at recent migration data, though it finds these to be frequently incomplete and inconsistent.The most comparable cross–national data come from the OECD and Eurostat, which indicate that Germany had the largest flows of migrants in the 1990s followed by the United Kingdom. In addition to these arrivals there are probably between 2 and 3 million undocumented immigrants in Europe – accounting for 10 to 15 per cent of the total population of foreigners. The paper also traces the countries from where immigrants are leaving. Sources vary considerably from one immigration country to another, reflecting a number of factors, of which the most important are former colonial links, previous areas of labour recruitment, and ease of entry from neighbouring countries. In recent years, however, immigrants have been coming from a wider range of countries and particularly from lower–income countries.The paper also examines changes in immigration policy. National policies were fairly liberal during the 1950s and 1960s, before becoming restrictive from the 1970s on. Recently, however, a number of governments have been revising their policies to take better account of employment and demographic needs. The paper also traces the emergence of a cross–national European response to immigration, as European Union (EU) countries have become more concerned about their common external frontier.Thus far European countries have done little to try to control migration through cooperation with sending countries. They could, for example, direct Official Development Assistance to those countries most likely to send immigrants, though few appear to have done so in a deliberate fashion.The paper concludes that in the future immigration to the EU is likely to increase, both as a result of the demand for labour and because of low birth rates in the EU. In the short and medium term many of these requirements are likely to be met by flows from Eastern Europe, particularly following the eastward expansion of the EU. But, the longer–term picture will probably involve greater immigration from developing countries.

The main aim of the paper is to present Swiss migration policy from the second part of the 20thg century till present. This policy has evolved over recent decades. It was strongly influenced by the economic need for workers on the one hand, and by xenophobic opinions that made this policy more strict. The central part of the paper concerns the popular initiative voted through on 9 February 2014, when the Swiss nation decided to limit the free movement of people between Switzerland and the European Union. ; Celem artykułu jest przybliżenie polityki migracyjnej Szwajcarii od II połowy XX wieku aż do czasów współczesnych. Polityka migracyjna Szwajcarii ewoluowała przez ostatnie dziesięciolecia uwarunkowana z jednej strony dużym zapotrzebowaniem na siłę roboczą z drugiej jednak silnymi poglądami ksenofobicznymi wpływającymi m.in. na zaostrzenie polityki migracyjnej. Szczególna uwaga zostanie poświęcona referendum z lutego 2014 r., w którym naród szwajcarski opowiedział się za ograniczeniem swobodnego przepływu osób między Szwajcarią a Unią Europejską.