Thomas Lacroix and Stephen Castles

Migration Studies Unit Working Papers No .

Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland

The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World

Global workforce, new racism and the declining nation state

In the closing decade of the 20th century, the world is marked by increasing ecological, economic and cultural interdependence. Yet the nation state remains the dominant political form. It maintains a near monopoly over the means of violence, it is the central focus of most political struggles, and its ideological force is demonstrated by the resurgence of nationalism in many areas. The breakup...

Stephen Castles

International migration is an important factor in social, cultural and political change in East Asian. The paper discusses both emigration and immigration countries, using the Philippines as an example for the former, and Japan and Malaysia for the latter. It is argued that population mobility is an important element of the cross-border flows and transnational networks that constitute globaliza...