Abstract
Population movements between countries and continents are not recent phenomena. What is new today is that migration flows are increasingly linked to the globalization process and to environmental degradation. Most of the migrants leave their homes for economic reasons, but also due to the higher frequency of natural disasters. Of the total migrant population, those who escape from conflicts or persecution still represent a smaller fraction and are entitled to obtain refugee status. This thematic issue includes eight articles that analyse migration flows and migration governance from different analytical perspectives. Five of the eight contributions examine the role that several factors play in explaining international migration flows and its effects, namely cultural diversity, information technology tools, governance, terrorism, and attitudes towards immigration. The remaining three articles are country studies that analyse the socio-economic causes/effects of migration flows to Portugal, Spain, and Germany, devoting special attention to forced migration and refugees.
Highlights
IntroductionThe contributions include the analy‐ sis of the socio‐economic determinants of international migration flows at a global level, and in a number of host countries, namely Germany, Portugal, and Spain
Introduction to Migration and Refugee FlowsNew InsightsInmaculada Martínez‐Zarzoso 1,2Submitted: 30 September 2021 | Published: 28 October 2021 AbstractPopulation movements between countries and continents are not recent phenomena
This process exacerbated in 2015 when Germany announced a welcoming policy, which led to a mas‐ sive arrival of immigrants and to the consequent oppo‐ sition from a number of other European countries, such as Hungary, which did perceive this policy as a neg‐ ative example
Summary
The contributions include the analy‐ sis of the socio‐economic determinants of international migration flows at a global level, and in a number of host countries, namely Germany, Portugal, and Spain This thematic issue covers aspects related to the following: migration governance in developing and developed countries and its implications; the changing dynamics in international migrations and the examina‐ tion of information technology tools to predict the flows; the economic effects of the migrants’ cultural diversity, as well as the effects of terrorism and other political fac‐ tors on emigration; the interlink between migration and governance of the receiving countries in rural areas; and the different determinants of refugee flows and interna‐ tional migration
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