Foreword; S-A.Siimes * Poverty, International Migration and Asylum: Introduction; G.J.Borjas & J.Crisp * PART 1: GLOBAL ASPECTS OF IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM * What Fundamentals Drive World Migration? T.J.Hatton & J.G.Williamson * Trends in Asylum Migration to Industrialized Countries: 1990-2001; S.Castles & S.Loughna * Asylum Policy in the West: Past Trends, Future Possibilities; M.J.Gibney & R.Hansen * PART 2: CONSEQUENCES OF IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM * The Impact of Asylum on Receiving Countries; S.Martin, A.Schoenholtz & D.Fisher * Asylum Migration: Implications for Countries of Origin; K.Koser & N.Van Hear * Illegal Immigration, Human Trafficking, and Organized Crime; R.Va;yrynen * Migration, Remittances and Growth; R.Faini * If People were Money: Estimating the Gains and Scope of Free Migration; J.Moses & B.Letnes * Efficiency Gains from the Elimination of Global Restrictions on Labour Mobility: An Analysis Using a Multiregional CGE Model; A.M.Iregui * PART 3: CASE STUDIES OF IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM * The Economic Integration of Immigrants in the United States: Lessons for Policy; G.J.Borjas * Development Cycles, Political Regimes and International Migration: Argentina in the Twentieth Century; A.Solimano * Economic Integration and Migration: The Mexico - United States Case; P.Martin * The Nature and Pattern of Irregular Migration in the Caribbean; E.Thomas-Hope * A Tale of Two Countries: Poverty and Income Distribution Among Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden since 1984; K.Blume, B.Gustafsson, P.J.Pedersen & M.Verner * Iraqi Asylum Migrants in Jordan: Conditions, Religious Networks and the Smuggling Process; G.Chatelard * Asylum Seekers as Pariahs in the Australian State; C.Tazreiter * Controlling Asylum Migration to the Enlarged EU: The Impact of EU Accession on Asylum and Immigration Policies in Central and Eastern Europe; C.Phuong