Human Tide: The real migration crisis
- Document number
- 2144
- Date
- 2007
- Title
- Human Tide: The real migration crisis
- Author/publisher
- Christian Aid
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Migrant rights; Migration management; Comprehensive approach to migration; Migration policy; Restrictive migration measures, Irregular Migration, Feminization of migration, Economic migration, Labour migration, Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour;
- Summary
- The issue of migration is currently riding high on the domestic political agenda. Media attention here is focused on economic migrants and those seeking political asylum in Britain and Ireland, with debate centering on whether these people bring benefi ts or dangers. This report is not about those issues. For the real crisis is emerging a long way away, and largely unnoticed. It really is not about us. Principally, it involves some 155 million men, women and children who have had no choice but to fl ee their homes and seek refuge elsewhere in their own countries. They are, in the fl at jargon of international classifi cation, ‘internally displaced persons', or ‘IDPs'.
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