International Organizations for Migration of European Nationals and Refugees

Abstract

In a day when we see ever more clearly the inter-relation of political, economic, social, and humanitarian factors in national development and international relations, there has been a growing awareness that migration is a matter of international concern with wide implications for economic growth and political stability. Orderly migration planned internationally cannot solve the tensions that result from local overpopulation whether that situation results from economic causes, as in southern Europe, or from political or ideological dissent, as with religious movements, but it can do much to ameliorate them. It is equally true that neither national nor bi-national arrangements are adequate to cope satisfactorily with the contemporary complexities of selection, training and rational redistribution of people in response to the needs and opportunities of countries in different parts of the world as well as to individual aspirations. Only gradually have governments learned to recognize these facts; probably most governments have not fully appreciated them as yet. But despite their attempts to limit in time, money, and area their commitments in regard to multinational organ-