ISBN:
9789400741102
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Global Migration Issues 1
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
DDC:
304.8/2
Keywords:
Social sciences
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Climatic changes
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Development Economics
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Migration
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Developmental psychology
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
Annotation, This volume is the first in a new Springer series to examine one of humanitys most pressing concerns: global migration and its implications for development. As population mobility grows in an ever more crowded world, the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) has emerged as the most important global mechanism to deal with the urgent challenges it presents. This book explores fresh strategies proposed by the GFMD in its fourth year of operation in Mexico and beyond. Interrogating the relationship between migration and development, the papers advance the Global Forums aims of reducing poverty and empowering low-income families everywhere. In 2010, there were 214 million international migrants worldwide, nearly two and a half times the number in 1965. By 2050, international migration is likely to expand sharply in scale, reach and complexity, due to growing demographic disparities, environmental change, shifting global political and economic dynamics, technological innovations and social networks. Migration can bring substantial gains to families in less-developed countries, and mobile labor is an axiomatic feature of the global economy. Yet outward migration of skilled workers can seriously retard development at home, and exert pressure on wages in host nations. Balancing these and other conflicting concerns requires the substantive and expert discourse offered in this book. Contributors discuss, and propose concrete solutions to, vital issues such as the debilitating costs of cross-border labor recruitment and the provision of social and income protection for foreign contract workers. With suggestions on how to facilitate connections between transnational families, and gender- and family-sensitive immigration regimes, this book aims to foster collaborative intergovernmental links as well as partnerships between governments, civil society and international organizations. It shows how the GFMD can positively influence policy and institutional behavior while addressing wider systemic factors in protecting mobile workers
Abstract:
This volume is the first in a new Springer series to examine one of humanitys most pressing concerns: global migration and its implications for development. As population mobility grows in an ever more crowded world, the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) has emerged as the most important global mechanism to deal with the urgent challenges it presents. This book explores fresh strategies proposed by the GFMD in its fourth year of operation in Mexico and beyond. Interrogating the relationship between migration and development, the papers advance the Global Forums aims of reducing poverty and empowering low-income families everywhere. In 2010, there were 214 million international migrants worldwide, nearly two and a half times the number in 1965. By 2050, international migration is likely to expand sharply in scale, reach and complexity, due to growing demographic disparities, environmental change, shifting global political and economic dynamics, technological innovations and social networks. Migration can bring substantial gains to families in less-developed countries, and mobile labor is an axiomatic feature of the global economy. Yet outward migration of skilled workers can seriously retard development at home, and exert pressure on wages in host nations. Balancing these and other conflicting concerns requires the substantive and expert discourse offered in this book. Contributors discuss, and propose concrete solutions to, vital issues such as the debilitating costs of cross-border labor recruitment and the provision of social and income protection for foreign contract workers. With suggestions on how to facilitate connections between transnational families,and gender- and family-sensitive immigration regimes, this book aims to foster collaborative intergovernmental links as well as partnerships between governments, civil society and international organizations. It shows how the GFMD can positively influence policy and institutional behavior while addressing wider systemic factors in protecting mobile workers.
Description / Table of Contents:
Global Perspectives on Migration and Development; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction: Making the Connections Between Migration and Development; Why Another Book on Migration and Development?; Why Use the GFMD as a Reference Point?; The Process; The Issues; Reducing Recruitment Costs Can Generate More Bene fi ts for Low-Skilled Migrants; Circular Migration: A GFMD Mantra or Just a Good Practice?; How Can Social Protection Serve Temporary Migrants Best?; Health Care: The Missing Element in Protecting Temporary Labor Migrants?
Description / Table of Contents:
Gender and Family: A New Way of Looking at Migration and Development?The Special Case of Global Domestic Workers; Irregular Migration: Causes, Patterns, and Strategies; Climate Change and Its Impacts on Migration and Development; Impact Assessments and Migration Pro fi les: Closing the Gaps in Coherence?; Regional Consultative Processes on Migration (RCPs) and Interregional Fora (IRF); Civil Society, the Common Space, and the GFMD; Setting a Global Agenda for Migration and Development?; References; Chapter 2: Reducing Migration Costs and Maximizing Human Development
Description / Table of Contents:
The Labor Recruitment ProcessJob-Matching Recruiters; Recruitment Costs; The Four-Stage Recruitment Process; Recruitment Regulations and Realities; Bangladesh; India; Nepal; Philippines; Sri Lanka; Conclusions; References; Chapter 3: Textbox 1: Circular Migration as a Development Tool: The Mauritian Approach; Globalization: Reinventing Mauritius; Stepping into the World and into the Future; An Enabling Framework to Support Circular Migration; Circular Migration with Canada; Circular Migration with France
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 4: Textbox 2: Final Report from Sweden's Parliamentary Committee for Circular Migration and DevelopmentChapter 5: Social Protection for Temporary Migrant Workers: What Programs Serve Them Best?; Introduction; The Conceptual Framework; The Review of Country Inventories; Selective Case Studies; A Special Concern: End-of-Service Pay; Possible Next Steps; References; Chapter 6: Textbox 3: Strengthening Migration Health Management in Sri Lanka; Chapter 7: Migration, Gender, and Family; Introduction; The Transnational Family; Box 7.1 "Los que se quedan"
Description / Table of Contents:
Unaccompanied Migrant Children: New Phenomenon, Old VicesGender Perspective, Migration, and Development; Box 7.2 Domestic Workers Convention 2011; How to Test the Main Assumptions; Recommendations; Final Reflection; References; Chapter 8: Textbox 4: Global Care Workers at the Interface of Migration and Development; Chapter 9: Irregular Migration: Causes, Patterns, and Strategies; Introduction; What Causes Irregular Migration and Residence?; National Laws and Regulations; Neoliberal Globalization; The Individual and Collective Agency of Migrants; The Activities of the "Migration Industry"
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-4110-2
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