The Global Economic Crisis and the Future of Migration: Issues and Prospects

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Bimal Ghosh

      Pages 1-12

3. The Economic Crisis and Migration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. The Great Recession and Its Distinctive Features

      • Bimal Ghosh

      Pages 15-36

   3. Migration and Economic and Social Realities

      • Bimal Ghosh

      Pages 37-74

   4. The Crisis and Its Impact on the Pattern of Migration: Changing Trends in Flows and Stocks

      • Bimal Ghosh

      Pages 75-106

   5. Effects of Changes in the Migration Pattern: Discerning Perils and Pitfalls

      • Bimal Ghosh

      Pages 107-162

   6. Meeting the Challenge: The Response

      • Bimal Ghosh

      Pages 163-182

4. The Future

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. Arab Spring and Islamic Winter in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): How Will It Affect Human Mobility Within the Region and Beyond?

      • Bimal Ghosh

      Pages 185-239

   3. The Future of Global Migration

      • Bimal Ghosh

      Pages 240-262

   4. South-South Migration: A Changing Landscape

      • Bimal Ghosh

      Pages 263-289

5. A New Opportunity

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Towards a New Global Architecture for Orderly and Predictable Migration

      • Bimal Ghosh

      Pages 293-307

6. Back Matter

   Pages 308-338

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The reason for the depth the 2008's global depression lies in the intractability of modern economic systems. This has led to an emergence of unprecedented migratory patterns, the analysis and management of which is key to economic recovery.

• depression
• economic system
• economic systems
• management
• meeting
• migration
• mobility
• science and technology

BIMAL GHOSH is Emeritus Professor at Colombia's Graduate School of Public Administration, Bogota. A former senior director in the United Nations for many years, he later worked as a senior consultant to the United Nations, Council of Europe, International Organization for Migration and various Global Commissions. He also served as Director of a global project on migration management – New International Regime for Orderly Movement of People (NIROMP). He was a visiting scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard Institute for International Development, USA, and the Institute of International Development Studies, Sussex, UK. His publications include: Managing Migration : Time for a New International Regime for Orderly Movement of People?; Huddled Masses and Uncertain Shores: Insights into Irregular Migration; and Gains from Global Linkages: Trade in Services and Movement of Persons, as well as numerous journal articles and newspaper columns.

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