Economic Cycles, Demographic Change and Migration

The International organisation for Migration (IOM) membership had selected Economic Cycles, Demographic Change and Migration as the workshop topic for the 2011 International Dialogue on Migration (IDM). This issue of the IDM categorizes the experiences, policies and practices highlighted by participants at the workshop into five areas for capacity to building, which received particular emphasis during the course of the discussions: 1) Capacities to align migration policy with priorities in other policy domains, 2) Capacities and policy options to promote circular and temporary forms of mobility, 3) Migrant to centred approaches, focussing on rights, skills and human capital, 4) Knowledge, data, monitoring and evaluation capacities in regard to labour markets, economic cycles and demographic trends, 5) Capacities to enhance cooperation and migration governance.