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Labour Market Realism and the Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees
Author(s) -
Martin Philip,
Ruhs Martin
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international migration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.681
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1468-2435
pISSN - 0020-7985
DOI - 10.1111/imig.12626
Subject(s) - refugee , gcm transcription factors , realism , job loss , migrant workers , labour economics , business , irregular migration , development economics , political science , economics , economic growth , law , economic geography , unemployment , climate change , general circulation model , art , ecology , literature , biology
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.