Links: New migration trends

“Moving out, on and back“, Economist. Investigates new patterns of immigration in the wake of the economic crisis. Unskilled labor is being cut. Governments are looking to encourage immigration that will be “most useful” to their economies. The bottom line is less migration, but Chinese are headed abroad. The article also notes patterns in “circular” migration (come-and-go) as well as “on-migration” (go to country X, then on to country Y).