Author: Richardson, Jacques

Source: Foresight - The journal of future studies, strategic thinking and policy, Volume 9, Number 5, 2007 , pp. 48-55(8)

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract:

<B>Purpose</B> - <IT>The objective of the paper is to explain the motives for and against accelerated displacement of people from some countries to others. The evolving consequences of such shifts are highlighted.</IT> <B>Design/methodology/approach</B> - <IT>In a soft-system analysis, the paper cites specialists in mass migration and the various attitudes inherent in different nations' experience, economic policy, and culture.</IT> <B>Findings</B> - <IT>The study finds that migration has increased in absolute, yet not in relative numbers. It explains the reasons for this.</IT> <B>Originality/value</B> - <IT>The thrust of this paper gives a markedly different interpretation of the nature of the world's migratory movements today as opposed to the view prevailing until late in the twentieth century.</IT>

Keywords: Immigration; Social benefits; Unemployment

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14636680710821098

Publication date: 2007-09-04

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