There can be few topics more likely to canvass votes, generate clicks, or provoke vigorous and sometimes heated discussions than that of international migration in the world today.
And perhaps for good reason, for not many people or places are unaffected by this issue. Indeed some already speculate that the 21st century will in time be known as ‘The Century of Migration’.
The scope of movement around the world today is certainly noteworthy: British missionaries living in Uganda, Filipino domestic labourers working in Saudi Arabia, South and Central Americans joining family members in the US, Bangladeshi restaurant workers in the UK, displaced Sudanese communities in Egypt, and countless other flows of movement of men and women of all ages to and from every continent and country on earth.
