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Aug 10, 2020 10:10 PM
Author: International Organization for Migration
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Policy
Women, the elderly, adolescents, youth, and children, persons with disabilities, indigenous populations, refugees, migrants, and minorities experience the highest degree of socio-economic marginalization. Marginalized people become even more vulnerable in emergencies.
This is due to factors such as their lack of access to effective surveillance and early-warning systems, and health services. The COVID-19 outbreak is predicted to have significant impacts on various sectors.
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Mar 13, 2020 02:08 PM
Author: International Labour Organization
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Research
This report was prepared as the background document for the ASEAN Workshop on Reintegration Programmes for Returning Migrant Workers (27–28 August 2019) in Yogyakarta, organized by the Ministry of Manpower, Government of Indonesia, and the ILO TRIANGLE in ASEAN programme.
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Mar 13, 2020 02:04 PM
Author: International Labour Organization
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Policy
The ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML) is a regional tripartite platform to discuss issues faced by women and men migrant workers from and within ASEAN. The ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of Migrant Workers (Cebu Declaration) was adopted by the ten ASEAN Member States (AMS) in 2007 in Cebu, the Philippines. The Cebu Declaration shows the AMS’ commitment to protect and promote the rights of migrant workers in the region. In order to advance the principles of the Cebu Declaration, the AFML was established to provide an open platform for governments, employers, workers, and civil society organizations to discuss complex and regional labour migration issues. Twelve AFMLs have been held to date. This publication contains information on the establishment of the AFML, past themes, and the Recommendations adopted at the 3rd–12th AFMLs, showing progress being made toward the implementation of the Cebu Declaration. This background information booklet provides an overview of the AFML process, and is a product of the International Labour Organization (ILO) TRIANGLE in ASEAN programme, a partnership between the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Global Affairs Canada, and the ILO.
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Aug 11, 2020 10:11 AM
Author: UNESCAP
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Policy
At the start of 2020, COVID-19 has spread across the world at an unyielding pace. What began as global jitters has evolved into unprecedented disturbances in the economy, health systems and daily life. In Asia and the Pacific, the impacts of the pandemic have reverberated soundly among its pop-ulation of more than 4 billion and in its network of vital supply chains. In the face of such challeng-es, the region must respond quickly and collectively to save lives and build resilience against future pandemics.
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has re-leased a policy paper which summarizes the key impacts of COVID-19 in the Asia-Pacific region as well as provides short- and medium-term recommendations to support countries in shaping their re-sponses.
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Sep 18, 2020 02:49 PM
Author: IOM
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Policy
The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) since March 2020 has amounted to an unprecedented global health crisis. In order to suppress disease transmission, governments have implemented a range of public health and social measures that in many cases exacerbate underlying socioeconomic challenges. While Pacific island countries (PICs) have only registered a small number of COVID-19 cases, they are still facing the devastating impacts on key economic sectors – such as tourism, trade and labour mobility – as a consequence of travel restrictions, border closures and quarantine measures.
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Apr 16, 2020 01:17 PM
Author: International Organization for Migration
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Policy
IOM, in close coordination with the Government of Bangladesh, supported the development of migration-related indicators to track progress towards migration-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Seventh Five-Year Plan (SFYP). The initiative was undertaken through the project, “Bangladesh Sustainable Reintegration and Improved Migration Governance (Prottasha)”, implemented by IOM and funded by the European Union. Based on consultations with key government agencies, international agencies, development partners and think tanks, as well as a review of national documents on the SDGs and the SFYP, a list of national indicators have been developed to improve national monitoring and performance in the migration sector, aligning the indicators already in the SFYP with the corresponding SDG indicators. This Policy Brief provides an overview of those national indicators.
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Aug 11, 2020 10:21 AM
Author: Center on International Cooperation
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Policy
A group of human rights experts, including CIC's Leah Zamore, co-drafted the below statement outlining 14 human rights principles for protecting migrants, refugees, and other displaced persons during and after COVID-19. The principles, which over a thousand legal scholars have signed since late April, were highlighted by the International Organization on Migration in a May 2020 analytical snapshot on the human rights implications of COVID-19 throughout the migration cycle, and cited in United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres’s Policy Brief: COVID-19 and People on the Move in June 2020.
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Aug 11, 2020 10:19 AM
Author: Antoinette Sayeh and Ralph Chami
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Information Material
The COVID-19 pandemic is crippling the economies of rich and poor countries alike. Yet for many low-income and fragile states, the economic shock will be magnified by the loss of remittances—money sent home by migrant and guest workers employed in foreign countries.
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Aug 10, 2020 10:25 PM
Author: International Organization for Migration
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Information Material
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Aug 10, 2020 10:32 PM
Author: International Organization for Migration
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Information Material
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Apr 16, 2020 09:44 AM
Author: Rene Desiderio
Publishing Date:
2020
Category: Information Material
This paper focuses on how migration affects fertility in countries of origin and destination through the dissemination of values and information as well as through decisions to postpone the birth of children before departure. The heterogeneity in the fertility of women from various migrant groups is underlined in most studies, many of which indicate that the total fertility rates of migrants originating from high-fertility countries exceed the average in destination countries. While the various mechanisms underlying migrant fertility patterns and convergence have been examined, much less attention has been paid to the diffusion of host-country fertility norms across sending countries by emigrants and returnees. The prospect that immigrant inflows can save low-fertility receiving countries from population aging and decline has, in recent years, become increasingly attractive. Proponents argue for the rejuvenating effect of sustained entries of young migrants in preserving overall population size, the size of the workforce, and the age structure of the population. However, while immigration usually reduces the average age of the host populations, it cannot reverse population aging except through very high and exponentially increasing inflows. The demographic changes occurring in the developing world, particularly the declining birth rates in sending countries, will generate a new dynamic. A new generation of migrants with no spouses or children in the home country will have different motivations than did earlier generations of migrants, for whom sending remittances to a family left behind was a prime consideration, followed – in some cases – by family reunification.
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Apr 16, 2020 09:41 AM
Author: Thomas Buettner and Rainer Muenz
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2020
Category: Information Material
This paper adds an economic dimension to the projection of international migration flows. Using existing estimates of international migration flows and demographic projections from the United Nations, the paper analyzes the impact of economic development, expressed as gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, on international migration. The analysis was inspired by the migration transition hypothesis – also known as the “migration hump” theory – and confirmed ahypothesized nonlinear relationship between migration and GDP per capita. Despite the large variability of the data, nonparametric fits suggest that emigration rates are relatively low in low-income settings, rise with rising GDP per capita, and decline at high income levels. On the other hand, immigration rates seem to increase unabated with rising income levels. For the projection of international migration flows, the nonparametric curves were parametrized by logistic and bi-logistic functions. Migration projections for 183 countries with constant emigration rates and with migration rates augmented by (projected) GDP per capita were calculated and the results summarized. The results show that international migration flows might substantially increasing when countries pass from low- to high-income economies. The paper also considers possible interactions between labor force dynamics and international migration but finds insufficient evidence for the formal integration of employment dynamics into the formulation of assumptions of international migration. Labor force projections driven by demographic change and projections of labor force participation rates are calculated for 184 countries and summarized. This paper provides strong evidence that economic dynamics should be considered into the formulation of assumption for future trends of international migration.
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