ABSTRACT
Migration is a multidimensional phenomenon which can have many positive effects as it expands the opportunities for productive work and leads to a wider perspective on many social issues among migrants and among the population of host countries. But it can also have negative aspects, usually in the nature of work and work conditions and possibilities for abuse of migrant workers by employers and others. Migration has a complex and multi-layered relationship with human development: while conditions of human development in the home country determine both the need for and the nature of economic migration, the process itself generates many and often differing human development effects upon the home and the host countries.
