Date: 2019
Type: Working Paper
Labour market realism and the global compacts on migration and refugees
Working Paper, EUI RSCAS, 2019/23, Migration Policy Centre
MARTIN, Philip, RUHS, Martin, Labour market realism and the global compacts on migration and refugees, EUI RSCAS, 2019/23, Migration Policy Centre - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/62065
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The Global Compacts on Migration (GCM) and Refugees (GCR) include policy recommendations that aim to increase opportunities for legal labour migration, improve protections for migrant workers, and provide refugees with ‘complementary pathways’ to enhanced protection via labour mobility. This paper explains why there are large gaps between these policy recommendations and the labour market policies and realities in the countries that host most of the world’s migrant workers. These gaps between ideals and realities are likely to limit the effective implementation of the GCM/GCR recommendations on labour migration. More ‘labour market realism’ is needed to incrementally but effectively improve protections for migrant workers.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/62065
ISSN: 1028-3625
Series/Number: EUI RSCAS; 2019/23; Migration Policy Centre
Publisher: European University Institute
Keyword(s): Global compacts Migrant workers Refugees Complementary pathways
Succeeding version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/64064