Temporary labour migration: Towards social justice?

Among the various forms of migration, temporary movements have garnered significant attention due to their prominence in the global economy. While temporary labour migration is often considered a means to boost economic growth and ensure widespread prosperity, it also presents complex challenges and is persistently associated with decent work deficits. This seminar will shed light on a variety of aspects of temporary labour migration from the perspectives of different academic disciplines and world regions.

The ILO has published a new collective volume “Temporary labour migration: Towards social justice?” that explores the barriers to social justice arising from the design of temporary labour migration programmes and suggests ways to overcome these obstacles. Several of the book’s chapter authors will be present and discuss issues such as shifting paradigms on temporary labour migration, new mobility programmes and areas that that affect the governance of migration such as international trade, policy tools for the protection of migrant workers, and historical lessons to help improve migration policies.

Agenda

• Welcome by Gladys Cisneros, Chief, Labour Migration Branch
• Introduction to the seminar by Christiane Kuptsch and Fabiola Mieres, editors
• Back to the future? Temporary labour migration, international standards, global policy dialogues on migration governance and the Global Compact on Migration Ryszard Cholewinski
• Business mobility as a privileged form of temporary labour migration: Insights from the MITA database and Switzerland 
  Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik
• Q & A 
• Addressing challenges in the design and implementation of temporary labour migration programmes: Policy coherence and the social partners Natalia Popova
• Is portability a panacea? Changing employers in US temporary migration programmes Daniel Costa
• Temporary labour migration from North Africa: Historical legacies and future dilemmas Aurelia Segatti
• Q & A
• Wrap up Christiane Kuptsch and Fabiola Mieres