Citation
Groenewold, George & Bilsborrow, Richard E. (2008). Design of Samples for International Migration Surveys: Methodological Considerations and Lessons Learned from a Multi-Country Study in Africa and Europe.. Bonifazi, Corrado; Okólski, Marek; Schoorl, Jeannette; & Simon, Patrick (Eds.) (pp. 293-312). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.Abstract
Worldwide, international migration is attracting increased attention, which is manifested in the rapidly growing literature in migration and other social science journals, in increasingly restrictive immigration policies in most receiving countries, and in a rising interest in the role of international migration in economic development of developing nations. The growing importance of international migration is evident in the data and in contemporary policies on international migration (UN 1998; Castles & Miller 1998; UN 2000; UN 2004). Thus, the total number of international migrants in the world was estimated as 191 million in 2005, including 115 million in developed countries (many in an unauthorised state), compared to 75 million in 1960 and 155 million in 1990 (UN 2006). The number of countries wishing to change their international migration rose from seven in 1976 to nineteen by 1986 and thirty-five in 2003, most of these wishing to restrict it (UN 2004).Reference Type
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2008Author(s)
Groenewold, GeorgeBilsborrow, Richard E.