Emigration and Human Rights

Abstract

Human mobility is a fact of life. People have always migrated to adapt to, or escape from, difficulties and disasters. At times migration was even spurred by curiosity and dreams of a better life. The scale and complexity of movements of people have expanded much in the recent past that it has affected almost all countries of the world. The speed of information flow, means of transportation, and the increasing awareness of the countless developmental opportunities and challenges catalysed mobility to migrants, their families, communities and societies at large. As our knowledge of the importance of migration has grown, so has the international system around migration.