If we take the steps set out today, and deal with all the different avenues of migration, legal and illegal, then levels of immigration can return to where they were in the 1980s and 90s, a time when immigration was not a front rank political issue.
Gyorgy Sziraczki of the UN's International Labour Organisation (ILO) points out that, in the next ten years, the total labour-force of the worker-exporting countries should grow by about a third but labour migration, legal and illegal, is growing twice as fast as even that.
Migration, legal and illegal, is now better understood in both statistical and human terms and the outputs are being embedded in national actions.
But the likelihood is that the European leaders will decide to tighten border controls, restrict migration and discourage illegal foreign workers.
I did not include rich regions in Dakar because it is very unlikely that people living in these neighborhoods would consider migration, and especially illegal migration.
A Home Office spokesman said: "The government is determined to take effective action to reduce illegal migration, and to tackle illegal working.
In turn this breeds resentment against the most visible manifestations of globalism, international capital, trade agreements and migration, both legal and illegal.
The Governments of Australia, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Nauru and Cambodia are committed to addressing people smuggling and illegal migration.
On Wednesday, Burma's foreign ministry said the government was making "serious efforts" to prevent people-smuggling and illegal migration.
