ABSTRACT
Growing numbers of refugees, economic migrants, and desperate people with mixed motives will move across national borders during the 1990s. The contemporary challenges of transnational refugee flows are not confined to mattas of US policy. This chapter considers prospects for additional international population movements and critically examines prevailing responses to cross-border displacement With a view toward preparing for the future. It explores the implications of refugee formation for the South, the North, and for the conduct of international relations. The so-called durable solutions to refugee flows are permanent acceptance and integration in the country of first asylum, third-country resettlement, and voluntary repatriation. The magnitude of the contemporary refugee crisis ensures that out-ofhomeland approaches to resettlement will continue to be insufficient. The South-North movement of refugees exerts considerable impact on sending countries. Refugee flows and the movement of economic migrants have become recurrent elements in international relations with impacts of the same magnitude as trade and capital transfers.
