CIAO DATE: 05/2012
April 2012
Danish Institute for International Studies
Over the last few decades a host of new business opportunities have emerged that capitalize on migrants' desire to move as well as on governments’ attempts to manage migratory flows. The businesses involved in this ‘migration industry’ range from small migrant entrepreneurs using their own experience to assist others making the journey, to big multinational companies who compete in the booming market of government contracts to carry out migration management. The commercialization of international migration is evident at every step of the migratory process and takes place in virtually every country of emigration, transit and immigration.
Resource link: The Migration Industry and Future Directions for Migration Policy [PDF] - 160K