| The reason for this is that intraregional migration tends to create social and economic pressure that leads to regional instability. |
| While intraregional migration flows had fluctuated over time, depending on the economic and political situations of the countries concerned, they were still significant. |
| This situation may help to explain why emigration to the North has decreased while intraregional migration has increased. |
| Extraregional migration appears as an opportunity to achieve the objectives assigned to migration, whereas intraregional migration gives migrants the resources required to get there, in particular, opportunities for jobs. |
| Labour migration is not exclusively a South-North or East-West phenomenon, but a SouthSouth one as well, and can account for a significant part of intraregional migration. |
| The remainder of this chapter therefore will draw on OECD data, but the limitations this introduces in terms of analyzing intraregional migration must be kept in mind. |
