Global governance of labour migration: From ‘management’ of migration to an integrated rights-based approach

Piper, Nicola

doi:10.22459/rt.02.2017.22

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“…Have been recognised globally such as in Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families 1990, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Charter of the United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and Global Compact for Migration (GCM), which makes all the states responsible to ensure these regardless of their legal status (Song 2015). Some call the new governance the 'humane' and right based governance approach (Piper 2017).…”

Section: Governing Migrants In Pandemic: General Discussionmentioning

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Visibility of Invisible: Covid-19 and Nepal-India Migration

Baniya

Bhattarai

Pradhan

et al. 2020

Tribhuvan University Journal

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India remains the preferred destination for Nepali migrant workers. There is a freedom of movement and work to citizens of both the countries without the need of passport or visa requirements. This paper studies the impact of COVID-19 on Nepali migrants in India by employing a mixed method research approach. The imposition of nationwide lockdowns in both India and Nepal has resulted in multiple forms of impacts on migrants, revealing a complicated cross-border dynamics. Sudden enforcement of restrictive measures including lockdowns, while necessary, adversely triggered vulnerabilities and precarity onto millions of Nepali migrants in India. The lack of political and legal recognition and inadequate state policies towards social protections worsened the magnitude and severity. While immediate relief measures and safe return is necessary in the short term, it suggests revising their foreign policy, development and social security policies to address the adverse drivers that Nepali migrants have faced.

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Section: Governing Migrants In Pandemic: General Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visibility of Invisible: Covid-19 and Nepal-India Migration

Baniya

Bhattarai

Pradhan

et al. 2020

Tribhuvan University Journal

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“…It currently plays a major role around the world both in managing both refugee relief and migration, with a particular emphasis on temporary labor migration programs. The IOM is frequently criticized by scholars and advocates by contrast with the ILO for its lack of a rights-based approach to temporary migrant worker programs and to migration more generally (Crepeau & Atak, 2016;Guild, Grant, and Groenendijk, 2020;Piper, 2017); and by contrast with UNHCR as well as the ILO for its failure to incorporate human rights norms into its principles, for being donor-driven and project-based, and for favoring government over migrant and refugee interests and needs despite its win-win-win rhetoric (Georgi, 2010;Patz & Thorvaldsdottir, 2020).…”

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The international governance of refugee work: reflections on the Jordan compact

Gordon

2021

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For the past 70 years, separate international regimes have governed the economic lives of refugees and labor migrants. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) oversees all aspects of refugee resettlement, including livelihoods, while the International Labor Organization (ILO) is charged with addressing the labor rights of migrants. This division has become increasingly problematic as international actors have sought to move refugees into employment arenas from which they have been largely excluded since the end of WWII. This article uses a case study of the 2016 EU-Jordan Compact to illustrate the risks inherent in positioning refugees as workers in the absence of a commitment to a rights-based approach. The Compact was negotiated between the European Commission, the World Bank, and the Government of Jordan, in consultation with the UNHCR; the ILO played no role in crafting the agreement. It sought to place 150,000 Syrians in Jordanian garment export manufacturing jobs, replacing an existing migrant workforce in an industry notorious for low pay and poor conditions. This effort quickly foundered. Instead, large numbers of Syrian refugees have been channeled into informal employment in construction and agriculture in Jordan, where they and migrant co-workers face pervasive violations of labor standards. Without decent work as a central goal, the Compact ultimately concentrated some of the world's most vulnerable workers in some of its least desirable jobs. To protect refugees and others alongside whom they labor, the article argues, refugee employment initiatives must be accompanied by attention to decent work from the outset. At the international level, this should include a critical role for the ILO, in recognition of its extensive expertise with the establishment and enforcement of labor standards for all workers.

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“…Este punto articulador refiere a la necesidad de observar las nuevas fronterizaciones como un recurso político complejo, que requiera que focalicemos a la gubernamentalidad como herramienta analítica (Domenech y Pereira, 2017).El abordaje de estas nuevas formas de fronterización -tal como observamos en el caso de los venezolanos y haitianos en Chilerequiere combinar el análisisde la gestión de la movilidad (Zapata-Barrero, 2013), con el estudio del uso instrumental de bases de datos, de la exigencia de visas y de las biotecnologías para el control de los cuerpos migrantes (Bigo, 2015;Salter, 2016). Requiere, además, abordar el rol de los organismos internacionales en la incorporación de un discurso de gobernanza migratoria para legitimar las restricciones a la movilidad humana (Andrijasevic & Walters, 2010) y la relación entre gobernanza migratoria y las transformaciones del mercado laboral (Piper, 2017). Al respecto, Piper señala(en Karakayali, 2015) que la migración indocumentada representa el prototipo del trabajador explotado en el sistema neoliberal (carente de derechos, explotable y subordinado).…”

Section: Conclusiones: La Producción De Fronterizaciones Y De Las Crisis Humanitarias Migrantesunclassified

La construcción política de la frontera. Entre los discursos nacionalistas y la “producción” de trabajadores precarios

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Torralbo

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El presente artículo discute las políticas de control hacia los movimientos migratorios y la producción de población migrante destinada a “suplir” mercados laborales precarizados. Utilizamos como ejemplo analítico el caso de Chile y las medidas implementadas en 2018 por el gobierno nacional hacia la migración venezolana y haitiana. Analizamos de qué modo el proceso de fronterización permite comprender los ejercicios de delimitación cultural e identitaria de la nación, y la construcción de sujetos cuya inserción económica y social queda condicionada a espacios de vulnerabilidad. Para ello, presentaremos un estado del arte respecto del concepto de fronterización y caracterizaremos las principales políticas y medidas adoptadas por el gobierno de Chile hacia los flujos migratorios provenientes de Venezuela y Haití. Finalmente, entregamos las principales conclusiones que se derivan de estos casos, en particular los efectos de las medidas de control y gestión migratoria en la construcción diferenciada y selectiva de estos movimientos.

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Global governance of labour migration: From ‘management’ of migration to an integrated rights-based approach

Cited by 42 publications

References 21 publications

Visibility of Invisible: Covid-19 and Nepal-India Migration

Visibility of Invisible: Covid-19 and Nepal-India Migration

The international governance of refugee work: reflections on the Jordan compact

La construcción política de la frontera. Entre los discursos nacionalistas y la “producción” de trabajadores precarios

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