The study reviews current government policies toward entry, exit, and status of international migrants, as well as bilateral and regional arrangements affecting population movements, and summarises important trends and findings on a country-by-country basis. Of 48 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, only 12 view current levels of immigration as too high, and all but one of these have explicit policies to lower existing levels. Of 18 countries reporting significantly high levels of emigration, only 8 have policies to reduce the outflow. The number of official refugees in sub-Saharan Africa increased nearly 15% between 1987 and 1988, to 3.9 million in the latter year. Mozambique is now the major source of refugees, followed by Ethiopia, Angola, Sudan, and Somalia. Despite significant voluntary repatriations in recent years, large numbers of refugees remain in camps and spontaneous settlements, posing a major challenge to development planning and the provision of services in host countries. -from Authors

[No Keywords available]

international migration economic development migration rate Africa emigration (sub-Sahara) population movement national policy developing country service provision immigration Refugees migration government policy