IGS 10a Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Global Governance, Border Control, Schengen Agreement
29 Nov 2016
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Over the next 25 years, 50 million people will be added to the population of the rich countries. About one and a half billion people will be added to the population of the poor countries. ~250 million live outside their birth country, which is less than 3% of the world"s population. Not a new concept: mass migration from europe in the 1750s (1850) to 1914 (just one example of many) Headed for areas of recent discovery during that period. Migration patterns today are increasingly from poor to rich nations. Us and w. europe are most popular destinations for emigrants. Us only has an increasing population due to immigration as the cbr is below replacement fertility levels. Political and economic motives serve as push factors. Some seek safety from persecution or are fleeing violence and anarchy in failed states = refugees. Convention on the status of refugees (1951) to delineate responsibilities for governments that signed.
