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Mar 09, 2018 12:50 PM
Author: Alan Desmond
Publishing Date:
2018
Category: Policy
The UN Migrant Workers Convention is the most comprehensive international treaty in the field of migration and human rights. Adopted in 1990 and in force since 2003, it establishes the minimum standards of human rights protection to which migrant workers and members of their families are entitled. However, it is the least well known of the core international human rights instruments and has so far been ratified by only 51 states.
This volume shines new light on obstacles and opportunities facing the Convention, its added value in international human rights law and its application in selected state parties. It combines the expertise of academics and practitioners, with the contributions of the latter informed by work on policy and advocacy in NGOs, international organisations and specialised agencies.
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Mar 09, 2018 12:46 PM
Author: International Labour Organization
Publishing Date:
2018
Category: Information Material
The ILO Ship to Shore Rights Project (funded by the European Union) assessed working conditions in the fishing and seafood industry in Thailand. The research covers both fishing and seafood processing including aquaculture.
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Apr 01, 2018 05:32 AM
Author: International Labour Organization
Publishing Date:
2018
Category: Information Material
The domestic work sector in the Middle East is constantly evolving. No longer are domestic workers employed only to clean homes – modern households are increasingly expecting domestic workers to support the care of children during critical stages of development, aid the elderly to live with increased autonomy, and assist in chores and household management.
Important progress has been made over the last few years by a number of countries in the Middle East towards legislative change to protect migrant workers. Yet implementation and enforcement remain major challenges, and continuing and credible allegations of abuse and fraudulent behavior continue to plague the sector.
This paper presents a number of interesting practices from countries such as Singapore, Jordan, Canada, Ireland, Saudi Arabia and others which could be a useful tool for policymakers in developing strong regulations and enforcement mechanisms to achieve justice and employment satisfaction for both workers and their employers.
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Jun 06, 2018 04:15 AM
Author: International Labour Organization
Publishing Date:
2018
Category: Research
This document gives a snapshot on the labour migration trends of India.
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Apr 21, 2020 11:51 AM
Author: Ouyang, Alice and Paul, Saumik
Publishing Date:
2018
Category: Policy
More than two-thirds of all skilled migrants go to the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia, but they come from more than 100 countries. This affects the movement of real exchange rates in the source countries.
Building on an analytical model, we provide cross-country empirical evidence that net skilled emigration appreciates bilateral real exchange rates through the wage channel in source countries. Chains of causality in the presence of the Law of One Price run through the “spending effect” and the “resource allocation effect,” analogous to the remittance-based Dutch disease effect. A pricing-to-market model allows pass-through for both traded and nontraded prices when the Law of One Price is violated. The skilled emigration elasticity of real exchange rate is estimated to be in the range of between .6 and .8, with internal prices playing a dominant role. Alternative model specifications
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Aug 10, 2020 09:28 AM
Author: Ouyang Alice, Paul Saumik
Publishing Date:
2018
Category: Information Material
More than two-thirds of all skilled migrants go to the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia, but they come from more than 100 countries. This affects the movement of real exchange rates in the source countries.
Building on an analytical model, we provide cross-country empirical evidence that net skilled emigration appreciates bilateral real exchange rates through the wage channel in source countries. Chains of causality in the presence of the Law of One Price run through the “spending effect” and the “resource allocation effect,” analogous to the remittance-based Dutch disease effect. A pricing-to-market model allows pass-through for both traded and nontraded prices when the Law of One Price is violated. The skilled emigration elasticity of real exchange rate is estimated to be in the range of between .6 and .8, with internal prices playing a dominant role. Alternative model specifications show robust outcomes.
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Feb 13, 2019 02:22 AM
Author: Jeanne Batalova, Andriy Shymonyak, and Michelle Mittelstadt
Publishing Date:
2018
Category: Research
This useful online guide links users directly to the most credible, high-quality data on immigrants and immigration in the United States and internationally. The easy-to-use publication includes more than 220 data resources compiled by governmental and authoritative nongovernmental sources.
The guide covers a wide range of topics, among them foreign-born population stocks and flows, humanitarian and labor migration, naturalization, education and language attainment, labor force participation, income and poverty rates, remittance size and flow, immigration enforcement actions, public opinion, religious affiliation, and development indicators.
Data sources in the guide, created by the Migration Policy Institute and the Population Reference Bureau, are organized into two sections, one U.S., one international. The international section features data sources by world region, as well as for the European Union (and select countries in Europe) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries.
The guide also offers tips on how to access more complex data sources, lists the frequency of updates, and offers other resources, including a glossary of commonly used immigration terms.
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Feb 13, 2019 02:17 AM
Author: Christine Inglis
Publishing Date:
2018
Category: Research
For more than two centuries, extensive immigration has underpinned economic and social development in Australia. The immigrant share of Australia’s population is high, at 28 percent, and the foreign-born population has grown more diverse over time as the country amended immigration policies that once favored newcomers from European countries. In addition, Australia ranks third among refugee resettlement countries, after the United States and Canada, having resettled more than 840,000 people since 1947.
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Feb 06, 2018 03:06 PM
Author: International Organization for Migration
Publishing Date:
2018
Category: Information Material
In September 2015, the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda was adopted, and for the first time, migration was included in mainstream global development policy. With the objective of communicating how IOM identifies migration in the 2030 Agenda to stakeholders and the wider public, and to shed light on the complex challenges and opportunities that accompany the migration-related targets, this IOM publication aims to showcase how different areas of migration are addressed in the Sustainable Development Goals.
Table of contents:
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Diaspora engagement and the Sustainable Development Goals
Implementation of the migration, environment and climate change-related commitments of the 2030 Agenda
Migration and health in the Sustainable Development Goals
Achieving gender equality through migration governance:Opportunities and solutions in support of the Sustainable
Development Agenda
The Sustainable Development Goals and labour mobility: A case study of Armenia
Migrants and cities: Challenges and opportunities
Migration and environmental change in the Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals in the prevention and resolution of displacement
Children and migration in the Sustainable Development Goals
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Feb 06, 2018 02:59 PM
Author: International Organization for Migration
Publishing Date:
2018
Category: Information Material
Produced by the Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), in collaboration with McKinsey & Company, the report More Than Numbers takes us beyond the well-known challenges of migration data and illustrates its potential value. The authors estimate that better data could boost benefits of migration by at least USD 35 billion based on a number of case examples. The report shows how data enables policymakers to protect migrants in vulnerable situations, fill labour market shortages, improve integration, manage asylum procedures, ensure the humane return of migrants ordered to leave and increase remittances (to name only a few).
This report urges governments to put data at the centre of the debate on migration. It describes the value at stake across various dimensions of migration and provides guidance on where investments in data should be directed to deliver the most impactful outcomes. The time to invest in better migration data is now. In 2016, countries agreed to start negotiations, leading towards the adoption of a global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration in 2018. Just one year before, migration was included in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. As countries have joined together on a path towards increased cooperation and action on migration, investment in data will be crucial for its success.
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May 19, 2018 12:41 PM
Author: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Publishing Date:
2018
Category: Information Material
Labour migration has been an important force in supporting the growth and development of the Southeast Asian region. Unfortunately, in spite of migrant workers’ vital role in increasing the region’s labour market efficiency they are often subjected to abuses during recruitment and employment and unable to make use of the social protection benefits to which they are entitled.
This situation is worsen as the data collection on migrant workers complaints within Southeast Asia are very limited particularly in terms of the remedies available.
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands has been filling this gap – based upon extensive delivery assistance to migrant workers redress for grievances, detailed data have been collection on almost 200 complaint cases throughout Southeast Asia. These data are immensely valuable in providing Southeast Asian officials, ASEAN as an institution, and the general public for a greater understanding of the effectiveness of mechanisms available to migrant workers. We hope that the analysis of the data will help inform interventions to strengthen the relevant legal and institutional frameworks in ASEAN countries.
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Feb 12, 2019 02:24 PM
Author: UNICEF
Publishing Date:
2018
Category: Information Material
Millions of children have migrated across borders or been forcibly displaced and reliable, timely and accessible data and evidence are essential for understanding how migration and forcible displacement affect children and their families – and for putting in place policies and programs to meet their needs. However, we do not know enough about children on the move: their age and sex; where they come from, where they are going, whether they move with their families or alone, how they fare along the way, what their vulnerabilities are. In many cases data are not regularly collected, and quality is often poor. This joint A call to action – Protecting children on the move starts with better data by UNICEF, UNHCR, IOM, Eurostat and OECD urges Member States to prioritize actions to address these evidence gaps, and include child-specific considerations in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and the Global Compact on Refugees.
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Feb 12, 2019 02:22 PM
Author: UNICEF
Publishing Date:
2018
Category: Information Material
Millions of children have migrated across borders or been forcibly displaced. As of 2016, 28 million children were living in forced displacement – this includes 12 million child refugees and child asylum seekers, and 16 million children living in internal displacement due to conflict and violence. These numbers do not include 7 million children internally displaced by natural disasters. Millions of other children had moved, within or across borders, in pursuit of better opportunities. This Data Brief presents key facts and figures about children in migration and displacement and the numbers behind UNICEF’s 6 Agenda for Children on the Move.
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Feb 09, 2018 05:40 AM
Author: International Labour Organization
Publishing Date:
2018
Category: Research
8th ADBI-OECD-ILO Roundtable on Labour Migration in Asia: Building partnerships for effectively managing labour migration: lessons from Asian countries for the UN Global Compact on Migration
Jointly organized by: Asian Development Bank Institute,
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
International Labour Organization
Hosted by: Human Resource Development (HRD) Korea
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Feb 22, 2018 09:26 AM
Author: International Labour Organization
Publishing Date:
2018
Category: Information Material
A report examining reintegration of Indian migrants who work in the construction industry in the Gulf.
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