Global Mobility Unaffected by Financial Crisis, as Remittances Remained Resilient

WASHINGTON, June 14, 2012 – The global financial crisis of 2008/09 has not sent migrant workers streaming back home, despite worsening employment prospects and anti-immigration rhetoric in some destination countries, says a new book on migration and remittances, published by the World Bank.   In fact, migrants may have mitigated some of the pain of the crisis as