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International Organization for Migration Report:
Description : Migration is a constant and dynamic phenomenon increasingly
requiring diversified policy intervention in order to maximize its potential
benefits and minimize related costs for both countries of origin and
destination as well as migrants themselves. Better knowledge and enhanced
capacities in different policy areas are essential to ensure the protection of
migrants, the facilitation of legal migration, the integration of migrants into
the country of destination, the support for sustainable voluntary return and
the greater interlinking between migration and development.
The challenge remains in translating improved understandings into policy and
practice on the ground. State capacities around the world for managing
migration are limited. Legal frameworks may need to be updated or overhauled to
focus on new areas of migration, or to handle new influxes or outflows of
migrants; staff working on the front line may need equipment, training and
support; civil society and migrants themselves may not be adequately integrated
into the process of data-gathering and making and implementing policy;
vulnerability factors and health risks inherent to the migration process need
to be better understood and addressed.
International migration is likely to transform in scale, reach and complexity,
due to growing demographic disparities, the effects of environmental change,
new global political and economic dynamics, technological revolutions and
social networks. These transformations will be associated with increasing
opportunities, exacerbate existing problems and generate new challenges.
The World Migration Report 2010 provides a tool for self-evaluation in terms of
future scenarios, and demonstrates the need for a far more comprehensive
approach to capacity-building for migration than has typically been adopted.
The aim is not to prescribe ‘one-size-fits-all’ policies and practices, but to
suggest objectives of migration management policies in each area, to stimulate
thinking and provide examples of what States and other actors can do.
Part A of the report focuses on identifying core capacities in key areas of
migration management, raising key concepts and outlining important examples of
existing practices in these areas. Part B provides an overview of migration in
the world today, from both the global perspective and through six regional
chapters, drawn from the most up-to-date data.
Table of Contents
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IOM Editorial Team
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Acknowledgements
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List of WMR 2010 Background Papers
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List of WMR 2010 Interagency Seminars
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WMR 2010 Eurasylum's Monthly Policy Interviews
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List of Figures and Maps
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Foreword by IOM Director General William Lacy Swing
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Building Capacities for Change
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The global outlook for migration
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Capacity-building
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Labour mobility
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Irregular migration
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Migration and development
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Integration
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Environmental change
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Migration governance
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Next steps
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References
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An Overview of International Migration Trends
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Introduction
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Global overview of migration
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Middle East regional overview
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Oceania regional overview
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Annex: Migration data: comparability, quality
and limitations
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Maps