15 December 1998 The world is on the move. Millions of refugees sweep through the African continent to escape genocide in Rwanda, lawlessness in Liberia, war in Congo, poverty in Mozambique. In Asia, refugees are Afghanistan’s chief export. A relatively small trickle from this flood of people reaches the affluent societies of the West. Nonetheless, the immigrants create tensions in […]

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