Migration in a Globalized World (2003)

Migration is one of the defining global issues of the early twenty-first century. Approximately 175 million people, including 10.4 million refugees, reside outside their home country, or put another way, one out of every 35 persons in the world is a migrant. There is no longer a single State that can claim to be untouched by human mobility.

The reasons behind this increase in population mobility are numerous, but globalization is often held up as a convenient (although not necessarily satisfactory) explanatory coverall for factors as diverse as the development of cheap and accessible transnational means of transport, the creation of real-time networks of electronic communication, the redefinition of individual and family identities across continents, and the income differences between developed and developing countries.

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Agenda

Statements from the Geneva Migration Group (GMG)

• Mr. Juan Somavia, Director General, International Labour Office Statement
• Ruud Lubbers, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• Rubens Ricupero, Secretary General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Statement
• Bertrand Ramcharan, Acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Statement

Migration in a Globalized World

• Opening Presentation - IOM Administration Presentation Presentation Handout
• High-level Presentations and Discussion
  • Jan O. Karlsson, Co-Chair of the Global Commission on International Migration Statement
  • Ousmane Ngom, Ministre Conseiller à la Présidence de la République en charge des Relations Internationales du Sénégal
  • Milton Ray Guevara, Secretario de Estado de Trabajo, República Dominicana
  • Michel Dorais, Deputy Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada Statement: EN FR
• Commentator
  • Nitin Desai, former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs Statement

Regional and Thematic Updates: brief reports on selected developments

• Labour Migration Ministerial Consultations for Countries of Origin in Asia
  • Patricia Santo Tomas, Secretary, Department of Labour and Employment, Philippines Statement
• Dialogue on Migration in the Western Mediterranean (“5 plus 5”)
  • Nouzha Chekrouni, Ministre déléguée auprès des Affaires Etrangères et de la Coopération chargée des Marocains résidant à l'étranger, Maroc Statement
• Italian National Association of Municipalities (ANCI)
  • Antonio Ragonesi, Chief, Department for Social Policies and Immigration, ANCI, Italy Statement
• The Berne Initiative
  • Jean Daniel Gerber, Director of the Federal Office for Refugees, Switzerland Statement
• Regional Conference on Public Health and Trafficking in Human Beings in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe
  • Zsuzanna Jakab, Secretary of State, Ministry of Health, Social and Family Affairs, Hungary Statement
• Bali Ministerial Conference on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crime
  • Makmur Widodo, Director General of Multilateral for Political, Social and Security Affairs, Department of Foreign Affairs, Indonesia Statement
• Economic Community of West African States
  • Yaya Sow, Head of Office, ECOWAS, Brussels
• South American Conference on Migration
  • Luis Sica, Director for Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Uruguay
• Puebla Process
  • Magdalena Carral Cuevas, Comisionada del Instituto Nacional de Migración, México

 

Related documents

• Migration in a Globalized World (EN | FR | ES)
• IOM's Role in Enhancing Regional Dialogues on Migration (EN | FR | ES)
• Workshops for Policy Makers: Background Document - Capacity-Building in Migration Management(EN | FR | ES)
• Workshops for Policy Makers: Background Document - Labour Migration (EN | FR | ES)
• Workshops for Policy Makers: Report - Capacity-Building in Migration Management
• Workshops for Policy Makers: Report - Labour Migration