Understanding, researching and combatting trafficking is not simple. The rhetoric runs ahead of the research, and there is a fundamental lack of hard evidence relating to most aspects of the problem. This issue makes a vital contribution to the empirical research available, containing both original surveys and reviews of existing empirical material. This is a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of major trends in international migration, and the economic, demographic, social and political impacts on source, transit and destination countries. Current migration policy issues and developments at national, bilateral and multilateral levels are addressed therein.
Several chapters deal with the specific situations in different world regions.
The annex contains an overview of international, regional and domestic migration issues.