1. Effective Partnerships: What Role in Migration and Development?
Louka T. Katseli
Migration and Development: World Bank and OECD Development Centre Conference
23-24 May 2007

2. Gaining from Migration Report
Joint initiative: OECD Development Centre, Migration Policy Institute and individual experts, supported by DG Employment (EC) and OECD
Official launch: 13 September 2007 at EU Presidency Conference on “EU Legal Migration”

3. Enriched by comments from…
29 March 07 Brussels Experts’ Meeting
23-24 May 07 World Bank Conference on Migration and Development
9-10 July 07
Global Forum on
Migration and
Development
12 June 07 Berlin Conference on Migration and Development
26-27 April 07
Rhodes Conference on
Migration and Development:
A Euro-Mediterranean Perspective 3

4. Gaining from Migration: Key Outputs
Evaluative reviews: what do we know about…
Final Report (proposals for managing a new mobility system)
Policy Briefs: synthesising policy lessons regarding…
Migration, employment, growth
Challenges for integration
Diaspora networks
Migration and development

5. Gaining From Migration: Main Messages
Large gains through labour mobility
Emerging global labour-mobility system requires new thinking
Old dichotomies (skilled/unskilled; sending/receiving countries; temporary/permanent migration; labour-based vs. family migration) have become dysfunctional
Needed: an orderly system to cover job-market needs based on realistic occupational qualifications

6. Management – and perceptions – of the system need overhauling
Smart, renewable permits
Temporary, cyclical migration schemes
Major simplification of bureaucratic and administrative procedures for legal admission, residence and work permits
A monitoring and information sharing system

7. Migration and development policies need to be interlinked
Receiving country migration policies must be viewed through a “development lens” (to assess their impact on skills, labour markets, poverty…)
Sending-country development policies must be viewed through a “migration lens”
The role of aid: to smooth adjustment and build capacity in sending countries

8. Regional and Multilateral Initiatives are Also Needed
Regional (not merely bilateral) co-operation is needed to facilitate migration management, circularity, development
Regional governance schemes need to be strengthened
WTO GATS Mode 4 provisions can facilitate “orderly market creation,” sharing of responsibilities and more effective intermediation by foreign firms

9. Effective partnerships can facilitate management of the global labour-mobility system
Sending and receiving countries must be involved…
…but also
Diaspora networks
The private sector (employers, banks…)
Transit countries
International or intergovernmental organisations (World Bank, EU) can help develop principles and a framework for such partnerships

10. Effective Partnerships: Four levels
1. Managing mobility

11. Effective Partnerships: What’s Involved? (1)
(1) Mobility management
Smart, renewable permits
Information, communication and monitoring systems
Simplification of admission, readmission and deportation procedures
Specification of rights and responsibilities of migrants
(2) Managing labour markets
Opening up channels for legal immigration/emigration
Agreed principles for regularisation procedures
Portability of social security benefits
Revisit codes of ethical conduct
Phasing of benefits for immigrants
Re-deployment of human-resources and replenishment of labour-market needs, supported by development assistance

12. Effective Partnerships: What’s Involved?
(3) Managing economic adjustment
Fiscal impact and burden sharing
Regional integration
Financing infrastructure investment and improvements in social-delivery systems
Innovative financial instruments for local development
Reducing costs and improving access for remittances
Diaspora for development programmes
(4) Managing social and political adjustment
Urban and social policies
Engagement of diaspora communities in integration and development
Second and third generation migrants
Legal and political rights of migrants

13. Effective Partnerships: For Whom?
Benefits for
Migrants:
Protection of human rights,
Improved information,
Lowering of costs
Receiving countries:
Legal vs. irregular migration
An “orderly” system for labour-market needs
Sustainable co-operation and burden-sharing with sending countries
Improved integration prospects
Sending countries:
Smoother adjustment to emigration
Strengthened replenishment capacity
Improved financial benefits
Expanded investment in human capital formation

14. For more info: www.oecd.org/dev/migration

15. Thank you for your attention!