Global/Africa: Migration and asylum policies in crisis: time for a rethink?

More people than ever before are migrating, or seeking to migrate, from regions afflicted by poverty and insecurity to more prosperous and stable parts of the world. Around 175 million people - 2% of the world’s population - now live in a country other than the one in which they were born. Tougher immigration policies, however, have led to an expansion of illegal international migration and undermined the system of international refugee protection.