With respect to international migration, experience showed that the pace of migration was too quick for most States to be able to regulate migration flows and to deal with their consequences.

Among other factors, reinforced migration flows from abroad have to be mentioned in this context.

The Republic of Kazakstan intended to use its migration policy to regulate migration flows and to establish legal, economic and social mechanisms to promote the stability of the process.

Peru had convened a high level conference of developing countries affected by migration flows, to be held in 2005.

The draft resolution had also included a gender perspective as women made up an increasing share of migration flows.

She also drew attention to the efforts of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to strengthen the support, training and consultancy programmes provided to its member States on managing migration flows while respecting human rights.

In its statement, Syria presented an overview of government policy in this area and stressed the importance that it attached to the joint management of migratory flows between its territory and that of other countries, global dialogue on migration issues, including illegal migration, and transit migration.

The High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development scheduled to be held in the General Assembly in 2006 would offer an opportunity to discuss those issues and to share experience and exchange information on migration flows.

The combination of asylum seekers and migration flows, which was related to the challenge of combating intolerance, was exerting enormous pressure on asylum systems.

Mr. Chernenko (Russian Federation) said that globalization had affected migration flows and that there were many economic migrants who did not require international protection.

In the area of good practices in the management of migration flows it was encouraging to note that many regional processes were in existence.

quot Globalization discussions so far have mainly referred to trade in goods and services, and have tended to overlook technology, labour and migration flows.

The uneven distribution of the benefits of globalization and liberalization had prompted large migratory flows among countries and intensified the complex phenomenon of international migration.

In conclusion, he said that the identification and implementation of sound management principles and practices that helped promote orderly migratory flows remained a key in maximizing the benefits of migration while enhancing the protection of refugees within the broader migration context.

Such a conference would also be an opportunity to consider the root causes, trends and impact of migration on countries of origin, transit countries and host countries, as well as possible measures to regulate migration flows and counter illegal immigration.

The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol thereto did not address the phenomena of massive refugee flows and mixed migration.

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Attention is also being given to the analysis of trends in the number of refugees in the region and of changes in their distribution by country of origin. 16. As a complement to the analysis of labour migration flows in Asia, a database including all the information available on such flows has been prepared. Issued under the title Labour Flows from Asian Countries, it compiles the statistics generated by countries of origin as a by product of the control of worker migration.

But tight national restrictions do not seem to prevent migration they only alter the geographical orientation of flows and fuel increases in illegal immigration, thereby inflating the size of the informal economy. Indeed, illegal immigration is larger when restrictions to legal migration are tight.

IOM had identified four ways of managing migration, namely facilitated legal migration, especially labour migration migration control to combat illegal migration providing international protection in cases of forced migration and managing the relationship between migration and development so that migration could contribute to sustainable development and development, in turn, could contribute to the management of migration.

Recognizing also that remittance flows constitute one of the important aspects of international migration and that they particularly benefit the households of migrants and could impact the economies of recipient countries,

b) Provide quantitative and qualitative information, as disaggregated as possible, on the characteristics and nature of the migration flows (immigration, transit and emigration) in which the State party concerned is involved.

Recognizing also that remittance flows constitute one of the important aspects of international migration and that they particularly benefit the households of migrants and could impact the economies of recipient countries,

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Inter African migration reflected the relationship between migration and development.

Countries are getting tougher because migration flows can be diverted across jurisdictions. This raises concerns among public opinion that migrants rejected by some countries could flood those that do not impose tighter restrictions.

Further, the task force stresses the impact of migration flows on human rights, including the right to development, in terms of loss of human and social capital in developing and less developed countries.

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If trade liberalization in goods and services proves too politically difficult to achieve in this decade, the benefits of liberalizing international labor flows is worth contemplating not least because otherwise illegal migration is likely to increase. Historical experience shows that migration is the fastest way to bring about a convergence in living standards.

By contrast, labor in the EU is largely immobile. Despite populist speeches about the threat posed by Polish plumbers, net migration flows between regions are generally insensitive to differences in unemployment rates among regions.

42. The expert concluded by saying that managing migration flows requires a policy of openness that regards immigration not as a burden per se but as an asset which society cannot afford to lose.

Inter island migration is common, particularly migration to Grand Turk, the capital.

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