Migration workers
Missing brains and labour force?
Background of international migration
The term migrant can be understood as "any person who lives temporarily or permanently in a country where he or she was not born, and has acquired some significant social ties to this country.” (1)
Migration is an actual big phenomenon that still continues to increase more and more. People started to look abroad for better opportunities in the working, economical and social field. Different reasons aimed to increase the growing rates of the worlds tendency, this are the main reasons and contexts presented on class by the responsibles of the topic:
• Invasions in their home country
• Forced Displacement
• Natural Disasters or Environmental Factors
• Medical Assistance
• Economic Purposes
Common categorisation of international migrants:
The term migrant can be understood as "any person who lives temporarily or permanently in a country where he or she was not born, and has acquired some significant social ties to this country.” (1)Migration is an actual big phenomenon that still continues to increase more and more. People started to look abroad for better opportunities in the working, economical and social field. Different reasons aimed to increase the growing rates of the worlds tendency, this are the main reasons and contexts presented on class by the responsibles of the topic:
• Invasions in their home country
• Forced Displacement
• Natural Disasters or Environmental Factors
• Medical Assistance
• Economic Purposes
Common categorisation of international migrants:
• Temporary labour migrants (also known as guest workers or overseas contract workers): people who migrate for a limited period of time in order to take up employment and send money home.
• Highly skilled and business migrants: people with qualifications as managers, executives, professionals, technicians or similar, who move within the internal labour markets of trans-national corporations and international organisations, or who seek employment through international labour markets for scarce skills. Many countries welcome such migrants and have special 'skilled and business migration' programmes to encourage them to come.
• Irregular migrants (or undocumented / illegal migrants): people who enter a country, usually in search of employment, without the necessary documents and permits.
• Forced migration: in a broader sense, this includes not only refugees and asylum seekers but also people forced to move due to external factors, such as environmental catastrophes or development projects. This form of migration has similar characteristics to displacement.
• Family members (or family reunion / family reunification migrants): people sharing family ties joining people who have already entered an immigration country under one of the above mentioned categories. Many countries recognise in principle the right to family reunion for legal migrants. Other countries, especially those with contract labour systems, deny the right to family reunion.
• Return migrants: people who return to their countries of origin after a period in another country.(2)
Labour migration and it´s management
The UN Convention on the Rights of Migrants defines a migrant worker as a "person who is to be engaged, is engaged or has been engaged in a remunerated activity in a State of which he or she is not a national.".
Labour migration is at the top of the policy agendas of many nations around the world, Countries that workers leave in search of a better life, countries they pass through, and countries they are destined for are part of a labour market made increasingly interdependent by the forces of globalization.
Social and economical consequences can be experienced when workers leave traditional livelihoods because of the lack of jobs in their home countries, the brain drain has also a big impacto on the developing world, managing labour forcé is not that easy to be controled, but certainly world countries needs to undertake actions regarding this sensible and important topic.
Is labour migration convenient for Colombia?
Labour migration has become a tendency, every day is more normal to have migrants due to labor factor,for me it has positive aspects as well as negatives, labor force is necessary for every country, in Colombia speciffically, the brain drain phenomenon afects the growing rates of the country, since other countries are taken the best human capital we have, it will not be as much well academic formed people as the country needs to keep its development process that will take it to a growing stage. It´s important that government takes actions over this issue that increases with the pass of the years.
I found this quote on the ILO´s webpage, i found it very appropiated for Colombia, since our major labour force exported is the working class for contruction and services sector, some of them that leave Colombia looking for a dream found there´s no dream, experiencing hard work schedules and sometimes explotation added to the feeling of missing everything they have in their native countries, sometimes is not worth it to hold up all this sacrifices to have more Money, but sometimes is the only way to survive and “take some food to their homes”. here the quote:
"Migrant workers are an asset to every country where they bring their labour. Let us give them the dignity they deserve as human beings and the respect they deserve as workers" - Juan Somavia, Director General of the ILO.
I have the sensation that labour migration needs more atention of the international community, international regulation must be inputed, each nation in the world needs to face the phenomenon, the idea is to get the best of it for everyone.
References
I found this quote on the ILO´s webpage, i found it very appropiated for Colombia, since our major labour force exported is the working class for contruction and services sector, some of them that leave Colombia looking for a dream found there´s no dream, experiencing hard work schedules and sometimes explotation added to the feeling of missing everything they have in their native countries, sometimes is not worth it to hold up all this sacrifices to have more Money, but sometimes is the only way to survive and “take some food to their homes”. here the quote:
"Migrant workers are an asset to every country where they bring their labour. Let us give them the dignity they deserve as human beings and the respect they deserve as workers" - Juan Somavia, Director General of the ILO.
I have the sensation that labour migration needs more atention of the international community, international regulation must be inputed, each nation in the world needs to face the phenomenon, the idea is to get the best of it for everyone.
References
1.Migration and Integration - some basic concepts http://social.coe.int/en/cohesion/action/publi/migrants/concepts.htm#back1
2. Castles, S. 2000. International migration at the beginning of the twenty-first century. International Social Science Journal, Vol. 165
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