15 - Through Ellis Island and Angel Island: The Immigrant ...

by Philip Martin and Gottfried Zürcher (March 2008) The number of international migrants is at an all-time high. There were 191 million migrants in 2005, which means that 3 percent of the world's people left their country of birth or citizenship for a year or more.1 The number of international migrants in industrialized countries more than doubled between 1985 and 2005, from almost 55 … ................
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