The Numbers and the Passions are Not New

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 Saskia Sassen, Guests and Aliens: Europe and Its Migrations, New Press, New York, 2000. For an examination of the option that national states have today, see Saskia Sassen, Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2006, http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/8159.html 2 Immigrants remain under 3 per cent of global population. From an estimate of 85 million international immigrants in the world, or 2.1 per cent of world population in 1975, this rose to 175 million or 2.9 per cent of world population by 2000, and an estimate of between 185 and 192 million in 2005 (IOM 2006). It is important to note the increased concentration of migrants in the developed world and generally in a limited number of countries. About 30 countries account for over 75 per cent of all immigration; eleven of these are developed countries with over 40 per cent of all immigrants. 3 Saskia Sassen, The Mobility of Labour and Capital: A Study in International Investment and Labour Flow, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988, Part 2 4 Eurostat, ‘Non‐national Populations in the EU Member States’, May 2006, http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS‐NK‐06‐008/EN/KS‐NK‐06‐008‐EN.PDF (accessed 20 November 2006) 5 IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Special Report: Global Population, IIASA, Vienna, 2001