Huddled Masses and Uncertain Shores:Insights into Irregular Migration (Refugees and Human Rights) - Hardcover

Bimal Ghosh

9789041105318: Huddled Masses and Uncertain Shores:Insights into Irregular Migration (Refugees and Human Rights)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 904110531X ISBN 13: 9789041105318

Publisher: Brill - Nijhoff, 1998

Irregular migration, including trafficking in migrants, has emerged as a major international challenge. It now represents one-third or more of the yearly legal inflow in the United States and half in Europe. At the global level some US$7 billion is channelled every year into human trafficking. Its close interlocking with trafficking in arms and drugs, as well as with prostitution of women and child abuse, makes it an increasingly alarming menace.

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Review:

'Bimal Ghosh's book on illegal and irregular migration is one of the first serious studies of the subject in book form by a single author [...] Ghosh has put together an impressive collection of data on a subject which is exceptionally difficult to study and summarize. [...] Everyone interested in migration will want to read this book. Probably no one else could have written it from a viewpoint so well educated both in human processes of migration and in the realities of politics and economics.'
International Migration Review, 2000.
'Huddled Masses and Uncertain Shores is an essential book for any researcher, scholar or activist interested in irregular migration.'
Khalid Koser, Migration Research Unit, University of London.
'Bimal Ghosh is an original thinker. His far-reaching experiences in the United Nations system have given him a unique vantage from which to assess current issues that defy easy solution.'
Migration News, 1999.
'It is a book which brings together analysis of those elements that create and sustain irregular migration. I am happy to have this book sitting on my shelves. It has informed me and made me think about how the strands that produce the over-all picture of irregular migration are woven together. It is also a good book for students. It brings a lot of ideas together. It is written in an accessible way, even for the non-specialist.'
John Salt, International Migration, 2000.
'The timeliness of the book can hardly be questioned. It is probably the most complete treatment of the subject to date. ..It succeeds in presenting a highly competent overview of this complex phenomenon. Its success derives in no small part from the long experience of its author. He brings a wealth of both scholarly knowledge and administrative experience to this controversial topic and he achieves a remarkable balanced treatment of a difficult subject.'
Russell King, International Journal of Population Geography, 1999.
'Bimal Ghosh's book on illegal and irregular migration is one of the first serious studies of the subject in a book form by a single author.'
European Journal of Population, 1999.