“Global Migration in the 21st Century: Welcome Trends or Dead Ends?”

by Scott M. Borene*

Global Migration Forum – San Diego – June 2011 Sources: (including resources for tracking global immigration trends)

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* Scott M. Borene leads Borene Law Firm, a global immigration firm based in Minneapolis. He has had more than 30 years’ experience managing employment-based immigration projects. Mr. Borene is a past Director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and is past Co-Chair of the International Bar Association (IBA) immigration committee.

He is Editor-in-Chief of The Global Immigration Guide: Crossing Borders for Business, The Global Immigration Guide: A Country by Country Survey, and Going Global, Trends in Outbound Immigration, AILA’s most comprehensive books on worldwide work visas. Scott Borene was selected as conference chair of the first Global Immigration Summit, the largest conference of the world’s leading business immigration lawyers, held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York in 2002.

He has been repeatedly recognized among the top 20 lawyers in the world in corporate immigration law “most highly regarded” by independent peer surveys of lawyers and general counsel (Who’s Who Legal). He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America.

Mr. Borene is a graduate of Harvard University and Minnesota’s William Mitchell Law School. He can be reached at sborene@borene.com.