At a soccer game in Iowa, USA. © Echando Raices/Taking Root / American Friends Service Committee

As long as inequities exist between countries, people will go where they see a better life for themselves and their families. But how much immigration and emigration is too much of a good thing? What rights and responsibilities do migrants and governments have, and where do we go from here?


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19.11.2009 Migrants' rights have to be addressed on two fronts, says Walden Bello: end the neoliberal policies that are responsible for creating poverty in their home countries, thus forcing them to emigrate, and demand that they are given full rights in their host countries.

Here are OneWorld partner organizations focusing on migration. Click here for a full description and contact information for each. If your organization is not a OneWorld partner, join the OneWorld community.

• American Friends Service Committee
• Center for Global Development
• Global Exchange
• Institute for Policy Studies
• InterAction
• International Relations Center
• International Rescue Committee
• Leadership Conference on Civil Rights/Leadership Conference Education Fund
• Oxfam America
• Project Hope International, Inc.
• Policy Innovations
• Refugees International