兰德-全球大移民：本世纪最大的挑战和机遇之一（英文）-2020.9-12页.pdfVIP

MASS MIGRATION How RAND Is Addressing One of the Greatest Challenges and Opportunities of the Century Every year, millions of people leave their homelands to start their lives somewhere else. Some seek to find a promising new job, strengthen family ties, or engage in new cultural opportunities. Some are seeking relief from crushing poverty or a lack of economic prospects. Others are fleeing war or persecution. Still others are escaping the effects of a long-term drought, a devastating hurricane, or some other kind of climate change–related disaster. Although individuals’ reasons for wanting to resettle vary, steadily rising numbers of migrants over the past two decades suggest that migration management is becoming one of the most pressing issues of this century. And there are no signs that this trend is slowing. Thus, many host and home communities and countries are urgently revisiting or developing new migration policies. The RAND Corporation has worked closely United States: how these drivers and others— with national and international agencies, such as economic pressures, gang-related particularly in the United States, Europe, the violence, agricultural setbacks, and political Middle East, and Australia, to assess how host- instability—affect migration management. and home-country governments, donor nations, and multilateral agencies can manage policies Three Areas of Migration associated with today’s vast migrant flows. Challenges and Opportunities Here, we bring together RAND’s RAND’s mass migration work benefits from interdisciplinary work on migration-related the interdisciplinary expertise of RAND trends, challenges, and solutions. The focus researchers and is driven by one goal: here is our objective research in three a