Absorption Policies For South-South Migration

Abstract

The South-South migration has increased enormously over the past forty years and its effects on the level of economic development and security for the host and neighboring states can be extremely problematic. Paradoxically the vast part of the literature on international migration still focuses on the South-North migration, leaving aside the South-South one and its implications. The scope of this paper is to analyze the effects of South-South migration on a country at low level of development and explore policies geared towards the absorption/integration of migrant workers.