The UN Convention on Migrant Workers’ Rights and International Migration Management

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoine Pécoud
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Migration Management

scholarly journals Externalizing Migration Management through Soft Law: The Case of the Memorandum of Understanding between Libya and Italy

Global Jurist ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martino Reviglio
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Soft Law ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Migration Management ◽  
The Many ◽  
Law Making

Abstract The externalization of migration management to third countries is becoming a recurrent phenomenon in international migration management. Soft law instruments emerged as an important strategy to externalize migration management to third countries through international migration agreements. In particular, in the last years the European Union and some member states have adopted bilateral and multilateral migration agreements in order to diminish the arrival of migrants in Europe. These agreements in the form of soft law instruments are problematic because do not follow the ordinary process of law making and thus it is difficult to assess their legal effectivity. The memorandum of understanding signed in February 2017 between Libya and Italy represents an illustrative case of the process of externalizing migration management through soft law. From a critical discussion of the memorandum, many problems in relation to its legal and material validity follow. In particular, the protection of migrants’ human rights in Libya is not guaranteed as the many international organization and NGOs reports indicate.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 110-120
Author(s):  
Leah F. Vosko
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Agricultural Worker ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Incremental Change ◽  
Migration Management ◽  
Legal Case ◽  
Temporary Migrant ◽  
Migrant Work

This concluding chapter reflects on the significance of the legal case of the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) employeess at Sidhu & Sons for expanding understandings of the meaning of deportability and its applicability to temporary migrant work program (TMWP) participants laboring not only in Canada but also in other relatively high-income host states embracing migration management and the measures it prescribes. Obstacles to limiting deportability writ large will persist so long as migration management dominates paradigmatically. Nevertheless, in combination with the forward-looking organizing efforts already being undertaken by unions and worker centers, in areas where unionization is difficult to achieve partly because of the still-dominant Wagnerian-styled model of unionization, certain modest interventions in policy and practice hold promise in forging change and curbing deportability among temporary migrant workers. Because the foregoing case study focused on the SAWP, the alternatives outlined in this chapter primarily address this TMWP. Given, however, that the SAWP is often touted as a model of migration management, they seek to provide meaningful avenues toward incremental change in other TMWPs in Canada and elsewhere.

scholarly journals Kidnapped, Trafficked, Detained? The Implications of Non-state Actor Involvement in Immigration Detention

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Global Compact ◽  
Immigration Detention ◽  
Immigration Control ◽  
Migration Management ◽  
State Actor ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Human Rights Standards

Global migration challenges are reinforcing long-standing trends that involve shifting immigration control measures beyond national borders and incorporating new actors into detention systems. Proposals to shape migration management policies — including discussions on developing a Global Compact for Migration — recognize the need to involve a range of actors to implement humane and effective strategies. However, when observed through the lens of immigration detention, some policy trends raise challenging questions, particularly those that lead to increasing roles for non-state actors in migration control. This article critically assesses a range of new actors who have become involved in the deprivation of liberty of migrants and asylum seekers, describes the various forces that appear to be driving their engagement, and makes a series of recommendations concerning the role of non-state actors and detention in global efforts to manage international migration. These recommendations include: • ending the use the detention in international migration management schemes; • limiting the involvement of private companies in immigration control measures; • insisting that the International Organization for Migration (IOM) actively endorse the centrality of human rights in the Global Compact for Migration and amend its constitution so that it makes a clear commitment to international human rights standards; and • encouraging nongovernmental organizations to carefully assess the services they provide when operating in detention situations to ensure that their work contributes to harm reduction.

Tajikistan’s Bureaucratic Management of Exclusion: Responses to the Russian Reentry Ban Database

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 226-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malika Bahovadinova
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Electronic Database ◽  
Clear Case ◽  
Migration Management ◽  
Subaltern Agency

This article analyzes the consequences of the Russian Federation’s introduction of an electronic database that dynamically generates lists of individuals with reentry bans, with a focus on its effect on the Tajik migration management bureaucracy and Tajik migrant workers. Countering standard narratives about the passive citizenry of authoritarian states, it demonstrates how Tajik citizens change the emphasis in the bureaucracy through their everyday encounters with civil servants and bureaucrats. However, this is not a clear case of subversion or subaltern agency, but rather an engagement that remains structured by capitalist needs for expendable, disciplined, and most importantly deportable alien labor.

scholarly journals Arrival or Transient Spaces? Differentiated Politics of Mobilities, Socio-Technological Orderings and Migrants’ Socio-Spatial Embeddedness

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-43
Author(s):  
Tabea Bork-Hüffer ◽  
Simon Alexander Peth
Keyword(s):  
Differential Inclusion ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Combined Effects ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Migration Management ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
Lively Debate ◽  
Shed Light

<p>For the last decade there has been a lively debate on urban arrival spaces. Saunders’ (2011) widely received book <em>Arrival Cities</em> can be seen as catalyst of this debate. Taking a hitherto largely unexplored comparative approach, based on two empirical research studies on migrant workers and highly-skilled migrants in Singapore, this study debates the notion of arrival cities and spaces and argues for a differentiated perspective on the complex and interdependent processes of spatially and socially arriving. By comparing how the politics of mobilities, migration management and differential inclusion influence the migration trajectories of workers and professionals we argue that the concept of transient spaces might be a more fruitful approach for understanding the differentiated processes of arriving and (not) becoming socio-spatially embedded. In order to educe the relevance of a processual perspective, and for a systematic comparison, we apply four analytical dimensions that shed light on the process of migrating, arriving, and passing through. These four dimensions comprise (1) arriving, (2) settling, (3) mingling locally and translocally, and (4) planning ahead for future mobilities. We argue that the scholarship on politics of mobilities needs to take note of the combined effects of states’ and companies’ neoliberal politics of mobility throughout the migration process, and of the increasing relevance of socio-technological orderings, which imprint migrants’ socio-spatial embedding.</p>

scholarly journals Migrasi Migrasi Internasional Penduduk Pulau Jawa Menjadi Pekerja Migran Indonesia di Luar Negeri

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-115
Author(s):  
Fivien Muslihatinningsih ◽  
Juan Palem Sinaga ◽  
Nanik Istiyani
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Human Development ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Study Results

International migration by Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI) not only has a positive impact on improving the economic conditions of PMI families but also contributes to developing the country's economy through PMI remittances. This study aims to determine the effect of Unemployment, minimum wages, poverty, and human development index on international migration of Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI) on the island of Java. This study uses secondary data in the form of panel data, with time-series data (2010 - 2019) and cross-section data (6 provinces on Java island). The data analysis method uses a panel data regression with the Common Effect Model (CEM) approach. Statistical tests use simultaneous tests, partial tests, and the coefficient of determination. This study uses the classic assumption test, the multicollinearity test, the heteroscedasticity test, and the normality test. The study results concluded that simultaneously Unemployment, minimum wages, poverty, and the human development index had a significant effect on international migration. Partially, Unemployment and poverty have a positive and significant impact, minimum wages have a negative and significant effect, while the human development index has a positive and not significant effect on international migration.

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