ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the consequences of migration for political integration in the Arab world and particularly for the integration of migrants into the political fabric of their host countries. It overviews the roots and patterns of migration which raises several points of importance with regard to understanding the role of migration in political integration within the region. Migration within the Arab world is, of course, not a new phenomenon. It is the role of Arab migrants in what may be called 'statehood integration'. Territorial integration differs from statehood integration in that it concerns not identity of the citizen with the state, but rather the process of strengthening both the geographical or territorial boundaries of the state and the legitimacy of central government's jurisdiction over and within the designated area. A final dimension of political integration is the capacity of people to develop new institutions in response to change. migration patterns.
