ABSTRACT
The enormous expansion of international population flows since the 1980s has been a constitutive component of accelerated globalization connecting different regions of the world through and labor exchange, international laws and organizations, and rapidly advancing transportation and communication technologies. These swelling international migrations and their diverse consequences for both sender and receiver societies have prompted governments and international organizations to find ways to control flows either by constraining them (receiver states) or by facilitating the movement (human rights organizations and many sender governments with interests in immigrants remittances and their economic investments at home). Increased public concern in Western receiver countries with the influx of immigrants from remote regions of the world and its apparent relationship to globalization have articulated recently in Huntington's (1991) vision of a 4clash of civilisations', Brimelow's (1995) prediction of Immigration disaster', or Enzenberger's (1994) concerning 'Die grofle Wanderung' (the big migration).
