Labour market realism and the global compacts on migration and refugees
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0020-7985; 1468-2435
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International migration, 2019, Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 80-90
[Migration Policy Centre]
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MARTIN, Philip, RUHS, Martin, Labour market realism and the global compacts on migration and refugees, International migration, 2019, Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 80-90, [Migration Policy Centre] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/64064
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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.
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First published online: 6 August 2019
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The article is published version of EUI RSCAS WP; 2019/23