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Illegal Migration

HDRO Conference Room
11 February 2009

Time: 12.30- 2.00 p.m.

Topic

In virtually every corner of the world, developed and developing societies alike are struggling with illegal immigration. In many countries, there are few topics more controversial than granting amnesty to illegal aliens. While widespread agreement exists among nations and much of the public on the undesirability of illegal immigration, views differ considerably on how to deal with those already unlawfully residing or working in a country. Positions or stands on amnesty or legalization are to a great extent determined by the specific circumstances in which nations, organizations and communities find themselves. Despite improved interstate cooperation, development programs and public information campaigns, illegal immigration is expected to persist for the foreseeable future. Addressing the presence of these men, women and children who have illegally taken up residence in a country remains a major challenge for the international community of nations in the 21st century.

About the Speaker

Joseph Chamie is currently Director of Research at the Center for Migration Studies, New York and Editor of the International Migration Review. Formerly, he was the Director of the United Nations Population Division. He had been with the United Nations in the field of population and development both overseas and in New York for more than a quarter century. Among other major duties, he was the deputy secretary-general for the 1994 United Nations International Conference for Population and Development. In addition to completing numerous population studies issued under United Nations authorship, he has also written many studies in his own name in such areas as fertility, population estimates and projections, international migration and population and development policy.

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