Not least due to the change in overall economic conditions, the employment of foreign workers in Western Europe has in recent years become increasingly controversial. The following two articles deal with different aspects of labour migration. Heinz Werner presents a survey of policies towards...

According to a projection by the World Bank, international migration will decline significantly over the next decade. This projection not only assumes a narrowing of the welfare gap between industrialised and developing countries. It also sets out from the premise that potential migrants react...

Germany's migration statistics for 1982 and 1983 show, for the first time in some years, an excess of out migration over immigration of foreign workers and their families. What are the problems facing the returnees? How can their modernizing influence on their societies be increased?