Global interactions, migration systems, processes, and policies, Mary M. Kritz and Hania Zlotnik. Part 1 Global and regional migration systems: empirical identification of international migration systems, Hania Zlotnik; international migration in the South Pacific region, Richard Bedford; the West African migration system, Paulina Makinwa-Adebusoye; migration and interdependence - the migration system between France and Africa, Jean-Pierre Garson; Caribbean exodus and the world system, Alan B. Simmons and Jean Pierre Guengant; the role of migration policies and social networks in the development of a migration system in the Southern Cone, Jorge Balan. Part 2 Processes linking origin and destination countries: international labour movements - a perspective on economic exchanges and flows, Lin Lean Lim; migration networks and the shaping of migration systems, Douglas T.Gurak and Fe Caces; the use of social networks in Turkish migration to Germany, Czarina Wilpert; the mobilization of labour migrants in Thailand: personal links and facilitating networks, Anchalee Singhanetra-Renard; the contribution of remittances to economic and social development, Fred Arnold; science and technology transfers and migration flows, Mary M. Kritz and Fe Caces. Part 3 Policy issues underlying international migration: laws and policies regulating population movements: a European perspective, Tomas Hammar; contemporary labour migration from Asia: policies and perspectives of sending countries, Manolo I. Abella; institutional and policy interactions among countries and refugee flows, Jacqueline Desbarats; evolution of policy modes for regulating international labour migration, Mark J. Miller; labour migration and international economic regimes - Bretton Woods and after Aristide R. Zolberg.