Rhetoric and Action of Immigration Policies in Britain

International migration has become a much debated issue since the 1990s. It has moved from an internal administrative matter to a top national security issue, especially after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, in the United States. The usual notion of a migrant is that of an unskilled person which comes from a developing country, trying to get a job in any of the developed areas of the world where they will then settle d?wn (Augustin, 2003: 32). However, this is only one type in this category. Migrants can be high skilled or low skilled individuals, they can come both from developing as well as developed countries, they may be migrants due to family formation or reunion, and there are also those who are forced to migrate - asylum seekers and refugees - which are not to be seen as migrants.