The Future of Large-Scale Migration

Abstract

There is today a great difference of attitude on the part of emigration countries with regard to the desirability of large-scale emigration, even though the benefits which these countries have derived from emigration in the past is widely recognized. This attitude appears in many cases to be based on political considerations rather than on purely objective reasonings. There is no doubt but that political issues are inevitably involved in large-scale movements which affect the demographic structure of individual countries as well as international relations. In order to avoid that such an attitude becomes detrimental to migration policies, it is important to have a clear view of the situation in the more important emigration countries.