1. Background and Concepts of Global Migration
When it comes to the domestic economy, politicians and policymakers are forever urging people to be more mobile, and to move to where the jobs are. ... The current framework emerged following World War II and was shaped to address politically and ethnically motivated persecution perpetrated by totalitarianism regimes (e.g., Nazi Germany) and which was an appropriate response to the principal migrant crises that defined the post-war world -- namely, politically motivated flight from communism and authoritarianism. ... The cold war rivalries between East and West have diminished and flight from ...
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