Migrant Workers, their life and rights

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Migrant Workers, their life and rights

• Get at the crux of the problem

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Globalization

• Accelerate the cross border movement of
  commodities, money, information and workers
• WTO Mode 4

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Poverty

• Few decent works, high unemployment rate in
  developing countries

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Labor Shortage

• Hard works are disliked in developed countries

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War, Politics

• Refugee
• Exile, Asylum

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Vertical division of labor

• The wage of migrant workers is lower than the
  wage of local workers
• Few chance of promotion
• Disparity and Discrimination

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What employers expect

• Flexibility of employment
• Adjustment valve of workforce
• Not unionized

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What employees expect

• Equal Treatment
• Decent Work
• Human Rights
• Trade Union Rights

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Impact of financial economic crisis

• Sacked first
• Deportation
• Conflict among workers
• Xenophobia

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Worst Case

• Modern slave labor
• Human trafficking
• Abuse
• Exploitation

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Policy and Activity of PSI

• Vienna Congress resolutions No.2, No.17
• Migrant project for health workers
• GFMD (Global Forum on Migration Development)
• ILO Convention on domestic workers
• WHO Code of Practice