From being a relatively peripheral concern, migration has since the late 1980s moved swiftly up the policy-making agenda to become an issue of public debate. International conferences on migration issues have proliferated, and newspapers and magazines carry lengthy features on migrants, refugees...

From the forword: This book gives a contemporary picture of the global character of the refugee problem. It should help to allay the false optimism which has hindered an adequate approach to the problem in recent times, despite the World Refugee Year 1959/60 and the new funds for the UN High...