Contemporary world migration - towards new terminology, patterns and policies
In the last decades, after the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin wall, the strengthening of overall population mobility is evident on local, regional, national and global scale. In addition, there are changes in the scope and direction of migration, their structural characteristics and in...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Serbian Geographical Society
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Glasnik Srpskog Geografskog Društva |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-3593/2016/0350-35931602005S.pdf |
| Summary: | In the last decades, after the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin wall, the
strengthening of overall population mobility is evident on local, regional,
national and global scale. In addition, there are changes in the scope and
direction of migration, their structural characteristics and increasing in
the number of determining factors and consequences, which affects the
complexity of this phenomenon. It is important to point out the emergence of
new forms of migration as a result of intensifying pace of globalization,
which is an integral part of the migration. The total number of migrants in
the world (internal and external) in the first decade of the XXI century
reached the highest value in history and is around one billion, with small,
but continuous increase in share of total population. This means that one in
every seven person in the world has changed place of residence, either
within their own country (about 700 million of internal migrants) or moved
to another country (244 million international migrants). Therefore some
authors points out that all of us are becoming migrants. Also, the number of
irregular migrants recently has reached its highest amount, which implies an
intensification of government actions to regulate migration through the
creation of effective policies, spatial mobility and intensification of
bilateral, regional and international negotiations in this domain. Estimates
show that the number of migrants will continue to grow, especially the
number of climate migrants, persons who left their homes due to changes in
the environment. That is why it is of crucial importance in a first place to
understand migrations properly and then to create the steps towards the best
solutions in solving the problems caused by population movement in space and
create proper migration policies. |
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| ISSN: | 0350-3593 2406-078X |