July 28, 2020
Regularizing Migrant Workers in Response to COVID-19
The positive impact undocumented migrants could have would be much larger if they had the legal right to work and live.
Views from the Center
July 13, 2020
How Has COVID-19 Affected APTC’s Efforts to Promote Labor Mobility in the Pacific?
The Australian Government has confirmed that labor mobility is key to economic recovery throughout the region and that they will explore options to allow more Pacific Islanders to travel to Australia. As Australia’s flagship investment in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in the Pacific, the Australia Pacific Training Coalition (APTC) is therefore having to adapt and pivot its activities to respond to this new reality.
June 29, 2020
Including Immigrants is Good Policy Not Just During the Pandemic, but Afterwards Too
Inclusive policy changes spurred by COVID-19 have so far been limited and temporary, but as governments chart a path to recovery, immigrants and citizens alike would benefit from their extension well beyond the pandemic. This blog highlights two areas—access to the labor market and healthcare—where pandemic-related inclusive responses for immigrants should continue, expand, and pave the way for long-run positive change.
June 26, 2020
Introducing a New Approach to Labor Mobility
Today we launch the working group’s final report, “Labor Mobility Partnerships: Expanding Opportunity with a Globally Mobile Workforce,” answering these questions.
May 20, 2020
Migrant Remittances Will Plummet. Here Is What That Means for Global Development
COVID-19 has cost millions of migrant workers their jobs, pushing families around the world into extreme poverty. On International Day of #FamilyRemittances, here are some actions governments and the private sector can take to cushion the blow.
May 15, 2020
Four Reasons to Keep Developing Legal Migration Pathways During COVID-19
It is tempting to believe the health and economic impacts of COVID-19, both now and in the future, will undermine efforts. But there are four main reasons why this is actually a good time to develop new agreements.
May 13, 2020
COVID-19 Pandemic Underscores Labor Shortages in Women-Dominated Professions
Nearly half of the global population of international migrants are women. COVID-19 is highlighting labor shortages in women-dominated professions and the consequences these shortages have for pandemic relief.
April 2, 2020
Migrant Health Workers Are on the COVID-19 Frontline. We Need More of Them.
Worldwide, the health worker profession relies on migrants. But policy often restricts their movement. The COVID-19 outbreak has shown that, under crisis, many of these barriers are more malleable than policymakers make them out to be.
March 3, 2020
Saudi Arabia Could Rewrite Its Record on Labor Mobility by Ending Kafala
Saudi Arabia, for decades, has been a symbol of the dangers facing migrants, while simultaneously being responsible for vast poverty reduction in migrant families.
January 16, 2020
Introducing an Outcomes-Based Migrant Welfare Fund
Current migration systems encourage migrants to take on debt and service providers to behave poorly, undermining the development impact of labor mobility. We propose a Migrant Welfare Fund that partners with impact investors to pay service providers for outcomes in connecting migrants to jobs, creating a rights-respecting and self-financing system.
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