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Byline: Mac Margolis

For the last four decades, international migration has been a one-way journey. Year after year, millions of people left poorer countries for wealthier ones and rural areas for cities. Today, 200 million people are immigrants, people who have risked their lives and livelihoods to escape a dead end or pursue a dream. But now, in possibly one of the most dramatic effects of the global economic crisis, the human tide is slowing and is even starting to reverse itself.

With few job prospects in even the wealthiest countries, and a marked increase in anti-immigrant policy, would-be Third World emigrants have scrapped their plans to move ...

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