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...Francis M. Deng Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Francis M. Deng is the special representative of the UN secretary-general for internally displaced persons. The Impact of State Failure on Migration Francis M. Deng State failure is a matter of degree...

...Ahmet Içduygu Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Ahmet Içduygu is professor of international relations at the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Koc University, Istanbul. Demographic Mobility and Turkey: Migration Experiences and Government Responses...

... Migration into Greece: The Economic, Sociological, and Security Implications Andrew C. Danopoulos and Constantine P. Danopoulos The spectacular opening ceremony of the twenty-eighth Olympiad in Athens captured the imagination of the world with its glitter, originality, and depth...

...Elena Poptodorova Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 Elena Poptodorova is the ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria to the United States. Bulgaria’s Migration Policy Elena Poptodorova The democratic changes in Bulgaria and the processes...

... Migration Experience: Redefi ned Boundaries and Uneasy Transformations Sebastián Royo Historically, Portugal has been known as a country of emigration. Over the past fi ve centuries Portuguese citizens have emigrated all over the world as Portuguese colonization...

... of political science at Hofstra University, New York. Her research and publications focus on migration, civil society, and the democratization process in the western Balkans and southeastern Europe. Copyright 2017 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2017 refugees immigrants emigration Greek political...

.... “Migrating Icons”: Politics and Serbian Cultural Heritage in Bosnia-Herzegovina before and after 1992 Svetlana Rakic´ Prior to the 1992 war, Serbian churches in Bosnia-Herzegovina housed more than two thousand icons dating from the sixteenth...

...Derek Lutterbeck Located at the southernmost tip of Europe, just off the coast of Africa, Malta has during recent years increasingly come into the international spotlight as a frontline state for irregular migration from Africa toward the European Union. Even though, in absolute terms, the number...

... arriving in the Balkans about four thousand years ago. Multiple migration events occurred to and from one another's lands; in ancient years Greek cities like Corinth established colonies on the Illyrian coast, while in the Middle Ages Albanian speakers (known as Arvanites) migrated across Greece. Hundreds...

... change, water shortages, and resulting migrations of people could result in an acute problem of food scarcity across the region. As outbreaks of the Arab Spring showed, a shortfall of food and a rise in the prices of staple items can have a devastating impact on the stability of the entire region...

...Konstantinos S. Skandalis Entrepreneurship represents a very important element in the sustainable development of a country’s economy and becomes more complex when viewed from the angle of migration, which affects nearly all countries whether they are a place of origin, transit, destination...

... killing fields. Inner migration of hundreds of thousands of displaced persons temporarily plugged holes in Serbia’s negative population growth in the midst of a continuous exodus to Europe and anywhere else. Numerous signs point to the potential for renewed and ongoing difficulties in this most difficult...

... year. Thus, one in every 114 people is displaced in the world today.1 The form of migration often capturing news headlines is that from developing countries into the devel- oped world. Western European policy makers and citizens are concerned that with the inclusion of former Eastern bloc...

..., and Christians, with 2.8. Intercity migration balance is another powerful factor of demographic change, affecting population size and composition. During the first half of the 1990s, Jerusalem experienced an annual negative migration balance with other localities...

... A. El-Khawas The migration of highly trained people out of Africa, often called brain drain or brain loss, leaves many nations short of the skills needed to meet the chal- lenges of the twenty-fi rst century. This phenomenon is not new to Africa. It began in the 1960s following independence...

... opportunity, Greece has since 1975 become a country of significant in-migration.2 Particularly since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, large num- bers of migrants — especially from Albania but also from the Russian Feder- ation, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Mace- donia...

... Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2004 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. People on the Move: The Security, Social, and Economic Implications of Migration...

... materials, Switzerland has 3. Hans Mahnig, “Between Economic Demands and Popular Xenophobia: The Swiss System of Immigration Regulation,” in Regulation of Migration: International Experiences, ed. Anita Böcker (Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis, 1998), 174–90. Afonso: Immigration and Its...

...: The Italian Response to the Albanian Crisis,” International Migration Review 32, no. 1 (1998): 213. Joseph M. Codispoti is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force currently assigned to Head- quarters, USAF, Washington, D.C. He was formerly affiliated with the Air War...

..., and the fi rst half of the 1980s witnessed a resurgence in population, culminating in a population total in excess of 3.5 million in 1986. Population levels began to rise during the 1960s mainly as a result of the decline in net outward migration. The reversal in net migra- tion from outward to inward...