Immigration: a new issue for the new century

Immigration: a new issue for the new century studies the immigration issue in terms of multiculturalism, Immigration appears currently to be most dramatic for the United States and less so for European societies. Author asserts that migration flows had circulated till XX century among countries belonging to the region embraced by the notion of the 'West'. Today migrants move from the Third world to the West. As a results identity of the Western societies is for the last 50 years eroding while that of the non-Western civilizations becomes stronger. Liberal democracies of the West are faced with more and more burning issue of combining basic human rights with the rights belonging to a group or community.