Migration Policy Reform in Morocco: Implications for Migrants, the Country, and the Region

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelsey P. Norman
Keyword(s):  
Policy Reform ◽  
Migration Policy

Drivers of migration policy reform: The day off policy for migrant domestic workers in Singapore

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiu Yee Koh ◽  
Charmian Goh ◽  
Kellynn Wee ◽  
Brenda SA Yeoh
Keyword(s):  
Policy Reform ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

While there has been much debate on Singapore’s migration policies, a ‘black box’ continues to surround policymaking decisions. This article examines the dynamics of migration policy reforms in Singapore, using the case study of the mandatory weekly day off policy for migrant domestic workers. Designing our analysis around the three ‘Is’ – ideas, interests and institutions – we argue that the inclusion and formalisation of migrant rights in the policy sphere entails the framing of migrant rights in a manner that appeals to Singapore’s institutional logics and cultural repertoire; prioritising the needs and interests of citizens in the policy calculus; and institutional readiness and conviction to the cause.

Destination Russia: Migration Policy Reform and Reality

2007 ◽  
pp. 288-299
Author(s):  
Delia Rahmonova-Schwarz
Keyword(s):  
Policy Reform ◽  
Migration Policy

Independent commissions and labour migration: The British MAC

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-32
Author(s):  
Philip L. Martin ◽  
Martin Ruhs
Keyword(s):  
Labour Force ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Independent Evidence ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Labour Immigration ◽  
British Labour ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
The Uk

The independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) was created in 2007 after a decade in which the share of foreign-born workers in the British labour force doubled to 13 per cent. The initial core mandate of the MAC was to provide “independent, evidence-based advice to government on specific skilled occupations in the labour market where shortages exist which can sensibly be filled by migration.” The MAC's answers to these 3-S questions, viz, is the occupation for which employers are requesting foreign workers skilled, are there labour shortages, and is admitting foreign workers a sensible response, have improved the quality of the debate over the “need” for foreign workers in the UK by highlighting some of the important trade-offs inherent in migration policy making. The MAC can clarify migration trade-offs in labour immigration policy, but cannot decide the ultimately political questions about whose interests should be prioritised and how competing policy objectives should be balanced.

‘Restore Moscow to the Muscovites’: Othering ‘the migrants’ in the 2013 Moscow mayoral elections

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helge Blakkisrud ◽  
Pål Kolstø
Keyword(s):  
Migration Policy ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Migrant Population ◽  
Mayoral Elections ◽  
Mayoral Election ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Russian Identity

Russia encompasses the world’s second-largest migrant population in absolute numbers. This chapter explores the role migrants play in contemporary Russian identity discourse, focusing on the topic that ordinary Muscovites identified as most important during the 2013 Moscow mayoral election campaign: the large number of labour migrants in the capital. It explores how the decision to open up the elections into a more genuine contest compelled the regime candidate, incumbent mayor Sergei Sobianin, to adopt a more aggressive rhetoric on migration than otherwise officially endorsed by the Kremlin. The chapter concludes that the Moscow electoral experiment, allowing other candidates than the regime’s own hand-picked, ‘controllable’ sparring partners to run, contributed to pushing the borders of what mainstream politicians saw as acceptable positions on migrants and migration policy.

STATE MIGRATION POLICY OF UKRAINE: CONCEPTUAL ASPECTS OF FORMATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (9) ◽  
pp. 66-79
Author(s):  
Olha RYNDZAK ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Migration Policy
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