This is the first of what is hoped will be a regular series of articles in New Community addressed to contemporary patterns and trends in international migration. The aim will be to provide a largely factual update on the situation in major world regions, or on specific systematic issues. This report focuses on Europe, principally Western Europe. After a brief comment on data problems, it presents the latest available statistics on trends in stocks and flows of international migrants, including asylum seekers.1 It suggests that officially recorded movements are now slowing.
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John Salt (1995) studied this question.