ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on ways of conceptualizing and understanding broader migration-related processes and phenomena. It includes types of migration, migration dynamics and policy considerations, mobility options for forced migrants, globalization, and attitudes to migration in receiving societies. Cross-border labour migration might appear to be a less usual or even atypical livelihood strategy. Transnational activities, including the flow of remittances across borders, are fuelled in large part by migrants' obligations, responsibilities and familial solidarities with those who are in place in the homeland. Globalization is often perceived as accelerating global interconnectedness and bringing about a fundamental transformation of all aspects of life. The UNHCR is focusing more strongly on mobility' as offering a possible solution to refugees' displacement. The terminology in the migration field is nuanced, making it possible to use a range of terms which reflect subtle differences in conceptualization of phenomena.
