Gaining from Migration Towards a New Mobility System

Gaining from Migration Towards a New Mobility System

Author: Dayton-Johnson Jeff

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2007-08-21

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9264037411

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Presents a summary of recommendations on how we can all gain from migration. New ideas, based on an exhaustive review of past policy experiences in Europe and elsewhere, are offered for policies related to labour markets, integration, development co-operation and the engagement of diasporas.


Globalisation and Migration

Globalisation and Migration

Author: Ronaldo Munck

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1317990722

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This book critically examines the new issues and new politics regarding migration in the era of globalisation from a majority world perspective. It examines the current shifts in the global political economy and the effects it has, for example, in relation to rural displacement. When and how does this lead to national and/or transnational migration? We need to examine the ways in which migration is cut across and impacts on the generation of racism and xenophobia in the west. The issue of remittances by migrants to the ‘developing’ nations needs careful study as does the controversial issue of ‘brain drain’ versus ‘brain gain’ through migration. The growing importance of trafficking for forced labour has now been taken up by various international bodies but is it the new normality or simply an unfortunate side effect of globalisation to be overcome through legislation? Migration is becoming increasingly gendered in its composition and flows but also in the receiving countries where men and women do very different jobs. We can predict the increasing racialization and gendering of migration but how will the state and society respond to these shifts? This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.


OECD Insights International Migration The Human Face of Globalisation

OECD Insights International Migration The Human Face of Globalisation

Author: Keeley Brian

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2009-08-18

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9264055789

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Examines the reality of international migration today, including where migrants come from and go to, how governments manage migration, how migrants perform in education and the workforce and migration's impact on developing countries.


Talent, Competitiveness and Migration

Talent, Competitiveness and Migration

Author: Bertelsmann Stiftung

Publisher: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung

Published: 2010-07-30

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 3867932700

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As the global economic crisis ripples across the financial, political and social landscape, it is leaving its mark on international migration. The recession, hailed as the worst since the Great Depression, is impacting the scope and pace of international migration and its effects could deepen should the world economy worsen. Governments, businesses and individuals have all felt the damaging consequences of the global downturn, which has shaken confidence in established institutions. The crisis is driving some policymakers and analysts in Europe and North America to re-think their assumptions about labor migration. Yet while policymakers face exceptionally strong popular and political outcry to protect jobs at home, they face mid-term demographic challenges. These two opposing policy pressures require responses that will not only help ease the current economic crisis, but will also secure the long-term prosperity of these regions. This book reflects the effort of the Transatlantic Council on Migration to map how profound demographic change is likely to affect the size and character of global migration flows; and how governments can shape immigration policy in a world increasingly attuned to the hunt for talent. This volume is the second major product of the Council. The Council was launched in 2008 as a new initiative of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) in Washington, DC. The Bertelsmann Stiftung and the European Policy Centre are the Council's policy partners.


The Global Competition for Talent Mobility of the Highly Skilled

The Global Competition for Talent Mobility of the Highly Skilled

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2008-09-16

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 9264047751

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Drawing on analytical literature, the most recent data available, and policy inventories, this publication discusses the dimensions, significance, and policy implications of international flows of human resources in science and technology.


Africa's Health Challenges

Africa's Health Challenges

Author: Andrew F. Cooper

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-01

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1317184025

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This volume addresses the ideational and policy-oriented challenges of Africa’s health governance due to voluntary and involuntary cross-border migration of people and diseases in a growing 'mobile Africa'. The collected set of specialized contributions in this volume examines how national and regional policy innovation can address the competing conception of sovereignty in dealing with Africa’s emerging healthcare problems in a fast-paced, interconnect world.


Migration at Work

Migration at Work

Author: Fiona-Katharina Seiger

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2020-09-25

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9462702403

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The willingness to migrate in search of employment is in itself insufficient to compel anyone to move. The dynamics of labour mobility are heavily influenced by the opportunities perceived and the imaginaries held by both employers and regulating authorities in relation to migrant labour. This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the structures and imaginaries underlying various forms of mobility. Based on research conducted in different geographical contexts, including the European Union, Turkey, and South Africa, and tackling the experiences and aspirations of migrants from various parts of the globe, the chapters comprised in this volume analyse labour-related mobilities from two distinct yet intertwined vantage points: the role of structures and regimes of mobility on the one hand, and aspirations as well as migrant imaginaries on the other. Migration at Work thus aims to draw cross-contextual parallels by addressing the role played by opportunities in mobilising people, how structures enable, sustain, and change different forms of mobility, and how imaginaries fuel labour migration and vice versa. In doing so, this volume also aims to tackle the interrelationships between imaginaries driving migration and shaping “regimes of mobility”, as well as how the former play out in different contexts, shaping internal and cross-border migration. Based on empirical research in various fields, this collection provides valuable scholarship and evidence on current processes of migration and mobility.


World Migration 2008

World Migration 2008

Author: International Organization for Migration

Publisher: Hammersmith Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 9290684054

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World Migration 2008 focuses on the labour mobility of people in today's evolving global economy. It provides policy findings and practical options with a view to making labour migration more effective and equitable and to maximizing the benefits of labour migration for all stakeholders concerned. The report also analyses migration flows, stocks and trends and surveys current migration developments in the major regions of the world.