Demographic "megatrends" and their implications

Abstrakti

This article describes five trends in the demography of migration movements that are presented as megatrends for their striking similarity across countries and regions in Europe, if not globally. The trends – diversification of origins, majority- minority societies, the dimension of age, generational sedimentation, and the diversification of migration itself – will have a deep impact on the ways migration is conceived in most European countries – and thus on European, national and local policies around migration, but also on the focus of attention of Migration Studies as an academic discipline