Myths and Realities of Migration
Dr. Melissa Siegel August 2016
Maastricht Graduate School of Governance
Why do people migrate?
Maastricht Graduate School of Governance
Numbers
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More than 247 million people, or 3.4 percent of the world population, live outside their
countries of birth (UN DESA, 2014).
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$351 billion in remittances to developing world/ $483 billion world wide (World Bank, 2015)