| International
Migration: An Emerging Opportunity for the Socio-economic
Development of the ESCAP Region
Social Policy Paper No. 6, 2002
ST/ESCAP/2165
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
I. THE ASIA-PACIFIC MIGRATION SYSTEM
A. South Asia and West Asia
B. East Asia
C. South-East Asia .
D. North and Central Asia
E. Pacific
II. INITIATING AND SUSTAINING INTERNATIONAL
MIGRATION
A. Factors that initiate migration
B. Factors that sustain migration
III. CONSEQUENCES OF INTERNATIONAL
MIGRATION
IV. INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND PROSPECTS
FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
A. Growing demand for the highly skilled, continuing demand
for the less skilled
B. More female migration
C. The threat of irregular migration, particularly trafficking
in persons, especially women and children
D. Policy implications
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