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March 12, 2004
In and out
According to Professor Graeme Hugo, consultant to the Social Policy Unit at the Parliamentary Library, "The last few years have seen a transformation of the scale, characteristics and significance of international population movements. There has been a massive increase in global movement and an increase in the complexity of the types of movement—permanent and temporary, legal and illegal, forced and voluntary. It is argued that much of the thinking and research on immigration in Australia neglects this new reality". Hugo has produced Research Note 46, entitled A new paradigm of international migration: implications for migration policy and planning for Australia. Among other things, Hugo says: "There is a tendency for Australia to be thought of purely as an ‘immigration country’. Yet it has a substantial outflow of emigrants which has increased in recent years with the internationalisation of labour markets and other globalisation effects." The full text is in HTML or PDF from http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/2003-04/04rn46.htm. Posted by belinda at March 12, 2004 02:20 PMEmail this