This report examines the myriad impacts of the global financial crisis on global migration, finding that economic migration has slowed in recent months due to reduced job opportunities in destination countries and yet migrants are not returning to their countries of origin despite diminished economic opportunities.

The report focuses on migration flows to and from the major migrant-destination regions of the world, including: the United States, European Union, Canada and Australia; as well as movement in major migration corridors: the United States-Mexico; United Kingdom-Eastern Europe; Spain-Romania and Spain-Morocco; and Gulf State flows from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and the Philippines.