The Migration of MENA health workers
Reflections on New Zealand's Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) Policy, Sankar Ramasamy, New Zealand
Migration as Development, Manjula Luthria, Senior Economist, World Bank
Gestion et gouvernance de l’eau souterraine en Espagne
Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM): Monitoring and Evaluation Informing Policy and Programs, Jessica Yutacom, Senior Program Officer, United States of America
Briefing Note No. 2: Temporary Labor Migration Programs
The potential for EU-MENA labor arbitrage The migration of MENA health workers Building effective behind the border systems Making Bilateral Labor Agreements work
A Knowledge Platform on Migration and Global Development: A Global Public Good, Otaviano Canuto, Dilip Ratha, Hans Timmer , World Bank
Synergies between Migration and Development. Policies and programs: Moldova, Diana Hincu, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Republic of Moldova
Migration, Development and Evaluation: Where We Stand Today and Why, Frank Laczko, Head Migration Research Division, IOM, Geneva
Making Bilateral Labor Agreements work
Experience de l’aneti en matiere de l’emploi a l’international, Mohamed Mani, Directeur, Analyse des données du marché de l’emploi, Tunisia - French only
Building effective behind the border systems
Towards a National Policy on International Migration and Development for Jamaica, Toni-Shae Freckleton, Planning Institute of Jamaica
Agenda - Climate Change and Migration: Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa
The Egyptian Migrants in Numbers, Wael Farrag, Egypt
Climate change and Migration: Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) - Minutes of the Meeting
Migration, Territories and Development: In Search of a New Model for Interactions
Jan 26, 2015 / Blog entry
[EPISODE 7] Communities for Shared Development as a Response to the New Features of the Territory and the Diasporas
By Jacques OULD AOUDIA*
What are we going to discuss? International migration, diasporas, development, migrants’ territories of origin, host countries…and links that migrants forge each day involving all these elements. We will...
Migration, Territories and Development: In Search of a New Model for Interactions
Jan 23, 2015 / Blog entry
[EPISODE 6] How Can Migration Be More Forcefully Linked with Development of the Home Country?
By Jacques OULD AOUDIA*
What are we going to discuss? International migration, diasporas, development, migrants’ territories of origin, host countries…and links that migrants forge each day involving all these elements. We will discuss these issues...
Migration, Territories and Development: In Search of a New Model for Interactions
Jan 21, 2015 / Blog entry
[EPISODE 5] Migrants As a Catalyst for Development
By Jacques OULD AOUDIA*
What are we going to discuss? International migration, diasporas, development, migrants’ territories of origin, host countries…and links that migrants forge each day involving all these elements. We will discuss these issues in 8 posts. Please feel free to comment,...
Migration, Territories and Development: In Search of a New Model for Interactions
Jan 16, 2015 / Blog entry
[EPISODE 4] How Are Development and Migration Linked?
By Jacques OULD AOUDIA*
What are we going to discuss? International migration, diasporas, development, migrants’ territories of origin, host countries…and links that migrants forge each day involving all these elements. We will discuss these issues in 8 posts. Please feel free to comment,...
Migration, Territories and Development: In Search of a New Model for Interactions
Jan 16, 2015 / Blog entry
[EPISODE 3] Migration: A Problem or a Reflection of Societies?
By Jacques OULD AOUDIA*
What are we going to discuss? International migration, diasporas, development, migrants’ territories of origin, host countries…and links that migrants forge each day involving all these elements. We will discuss these issues in 8 posts. Please feel free to...
Reframing Europe’s Immigration Questions through an Urban Lens
Dec 16, 2014 / Blog entry
By Manjula Luthria* and Casey Weston**
This year’s European parliamentary elections revealed three important paradoxes in European migration dialogue. First, public discourse displayed egregious misalignment between popular perceptions of immigration and immigration realities. These unfounded perceptions of immigration’s impacts fueled the...
CMI Participates in Conference on Economic Development After the Arab Uprisings
Dec 11, 2014 / Highlight
December 11-12, 2014 – Paris, France
CMI experts were present for the Dauphine University Conference on Economic Development after the Arab Uprisings. The CMI contributed to three sessions: Youth Unemployment and Migration; Return on Education and Mass Unemployment; and Macroeconomics, Social and Political Developments after the Uprisings....
Looking Local: Migrant Labor Market Integration At An Urban Scale
Oct 29, 2014 / Blog entry
By Casey Weston*
European countries have designed a wide variety of national policies to improve the labor market integration of migrants. Migrant employment outcomes, however, seem uncorrelated to the intensity of these national-level strategies. On November 3rd, the World Bank/Center for Mediterranean Integration International Labor Mobility (...
Economic Transitions in the Mediterranean
Aug 04, 2014 / MDF
At the initiative of academics from both the Northern and Southern Mediterranean who are convinced that there is a common destiny for the nations and peoples of this region, a working group met to consider the transitions underway in the Arab nations. This initiative was launched in November 2013 and is facilitated by the Center for Mediterranean...
Welcoming Migrants: Cities offer a Beacon of Hope
Jun 02, 2014 / Blog entry
By Manjula Luthria*
When US-born 24-year old aspiring physician Ms. Nina Davuluri was crowned Miss America in September last year, she inspired a celebration of beauty, brains, ambition and America’s diversity. At the same time twitter exploded with angry tweets protesting the crowning of a “foreigner, terrorist, Miss 7-11.” In January this year...
Welcoming Migrants: Planning for Inclusion
Jun 02, 2014 / Blog entry
By Casey Weston*
Living in Marseille should give those of us working at the Center for Mediterranean Integration a unique perspective on the MENA region; after all, 20% of Marseille’s population is foreign-born, including many immigrants from MENA. In my particular neighborhood, tagines are more popular than ratatouilles, and “Salaam” more...
Embracing Skilled Migration: Global Skills Partnerships to Solve Global Skills Shortages
May 02, 2014 / Blog entry
This article is the third in a 3 part blog series on brain drain in the context of international labor mobility. Its aim is to question the conventional wisdom and help devise win-win solutions to age old problems.
By Manjula Luthria*
Earlier in this series we marked the omnipresent concern about brain drain and noted that because the term...
International Labor Mobility
Apr 01, 2014 / Program
Lead Organization
The World Bank.
Partners
Key partners: National Agency for the Promotion of Employment and Skills (ANAPEC), Moroccan Ministry of Labor, German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ), Maytree Foundation.
Other partners: French Ministry of Finance, French Employment Agency, Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,...
