The journal editors say, "If internal and international migrants comprised a nation, it would be the third most populous country in the world,just after China and India."
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All too easily we would become a Europe of internal economic migrants and unwelcome neighbours.
Despite Western fears over rising levels of immigration to Europe and North America, the report suggests that internal migration within countries poses a more serious humanitarian threat, with migrants struggling to survive in desperate conditions with no rights under international law.
In 2011, as a result of a two-day workshop on Internal Migration and Human Development, UNESCO and UNICEF launched the Internal Migration in India Initiative (IMII) to support the social inclusion of migrants in the economic, social, political and cultural life of the country, using a three-legged approach combining research, policy and advocacy.