The number of people who leave their countries to work abroad is soaring, according to the United Nations. More than 200 million people now live outside their country of origin, up from 150 million a decade ago.
And migration isn't just from poor countries to rich countries any more. There also is significant migration from rich country to rich country — and even from poor country to poor.
Beginning Thursday, the U.N. will hold a high level meeting on the subject in New York.
Moving For Work
In the Philippines, at the offices of Industries and Personnel Management in Manila, some 30 nervous applicants sit in hard plastic chairs watching a video about a day in a life of an employee at a duty free shop at the international airport in Dubai, on the Persian Gulf.
As soothing music plays in the background, the video shows workers — in robin's egg-blue jackets — looking almost robotic as they cheerfully assist customers in checkout lanes and count money.