Out of the Shadows

Shining a Light on Irregular Migration

Erol K. Yayboke and Carmen Garcia Gallego

Millions of people around the world live in and travel through the shadows. Compelled to leave home, they migrate irregularly without proper documentation to gain access to jobs, education, healthcare, food, and other essential services. Irregular migration exists because there are not enough opportunities for safety and prosperity at home and too few conventional means through which to remedy that lack of opportunity. Recognizing the critical, understudied, and often misunderstood nature of this global phenomenon, the CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development produced a research study on irregular migration involving field research in Mexico, Eritrea, and Ghana. This report, which builds on CSIS’s past work on the global forced migration crisis, aims to shine a light on irregular migration and contribute to an enormously consequential conversation.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Center for Strategic & International Studies

Pages: 70 • Trim: 8½ x 11

978-1-4422-8129-5 • Paperback • December 2019 • $45.00 • (£35.00)

978-1-4422-8130-1 • eBook • December 2019 • $42.50 • (£33.00)

Series: CSIS Reports

Subjects: Political Science / Security (National & International), Political Science / Public Policy / Immigration

Out of the Shadows

Shining a Light on Irregular Migration

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Summary

Millions of people around the world live in and travel through the shadows. Compelled to leave home, they migrate irregularly without proper documentation to gain access to jobs, education, healthcare, food, and other essential services. Irregular migration exists because there are not enough opportunities for safety and prosperity at home and too few conventional means through which to remedy that lack of opportunity. Recognizing the critical, understudied, and often misunderstood nature of this global phenomenon, the CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development produced a research study on irregular migration involving field research in Mexico, Eritrea, and Ghana. This report, which builds on CSIS’s past work on the global forced migration crisis, aims to shine a light on irregular migration and contribute to an enormously consequential conversation.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Center for Strategic & International Studies

Pages: 70 • Trim: 8½ x 11

978-1-4422-8129-5 • Paperback • December 2019 • $45.00 • (£35.00)

978-1-4422-8130-1 • eBook • December 2019 • $42.50 • (£33.00)

Series: CSIS Reports

Subjects: Political Science / Security (National & International), Political Science / Public Policy / Immigration

Author

Erol K. Yayboke is deputy director and senior fellow with the Project on U.S. Leadership in Development and Project on Prosperity and Development at CSIS. Carmen Garcia Gallego was a temporary researcher with the Project on Prosperity and Development at CSIS.

Out of the Shadows

Shining a Light on Irregular Migration

Erol K. Yayboke and Carmen Garcia Gallego

Out of the Shadows

Shining a Light on Irregular Migration

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