Migrant health in the workplace: A multi-country comparison

Abstract

The decision to migrate is often filled with uncertainty. Migrants make their life-changing decisions with limited knowledge of life in the new country. Despite the uncertainty, increasing millions of people across the world migrate each year. In recent decades, the net international migration (i.e. the difference between the number of people who immigrate and emigrate) to developed nations has increased from 2.5 million people per year between 1990 and 2000 to 3.5 million people per year between 2000 and 2010 (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs/ Population Division, 2013). The developed nations of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the USA gained the highest numbers of migrants, while countries in the developing nations of Bangladesh, China and India experienced the highest net emigration…. © 2016 by Imperial College Press.