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World on the Move

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Sara Mitchell
Topics: Migration
Countries: Cape Verde

Cape Verde, Africa is feeling the affects of migration, says The New York Times. With roughly half of its population gone, family relations have become strained, families separated, and skilled workers lost. Its hard to complain, especially when migrant's remittances make up 12 percent of the nation's GDP.

Even as Cape Verdeans struggle to get out, others are migrating in. This, too, is characteristic of the age of migration — most “sending” countries are also “receiving” countries, underscoring how universal the phenomenon is. Nearly half the migrants from poor nations move to other poor nations.“Migration is probably more important to more people than it has ever been,” said Dr. Carling of the International Peace Research Institute, a nonprofit group in Oslo. “But what characterizes the world today is also the feeling of involuntary immobility.”

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