ABSTRACT
Recent profound changes in the world political and economic order have generated large movements of people in almost every region. Contrary to expectations, rather than bringing to an end many of the world’s long-standing conflicts, the end of the Cold War has spawned new pressures driving people to move. Resurgent ethnic, religious and nationalist forces have emerged from the often violent disintegration of nation-states and their reconstitution. These new forces and other new features, like the revolution in global communications, have combined with prior social, economic and political pressures to generate new patterns of migration in the post-Cold War era.
