Trends in international migration in the Mediterranean European countries over the course of the 1980s are reviewed. "Particular attention is paid to the different factors that explain the arrival of these migratory fluxes during a period of economic recession and in areas where there is a co-presence of immigration, emigration and unemployment. The involvement of southern European countries as target countries for immigration is not seen as a simple consequence of the [restrictive policies] practiced in the Seventies by European countries with traditional immigration; the push towards these countries as well as the pull to the same are also considered, particularly the acceleration of the internationalization process of the labor markets, the characteristics of the labor markets, and processes of segmentation and tertiarization." (EXCERPT)

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economics population social policy demography Europe Population Dynamics Developed Countries policy health care manpower Health Manpower Article Southern Europe migration international migration developed country Demographic Factors Emigration and Immigration Economic Factors Human Resources public policy employment Labor Force Migration Policy Population Policy