Global Forum on Migration and Development

Berne Labour Mobility Meeting

• Draft Meeting Report
• Background Paper
• Programme
• Participation List
• Photos

Papers:

• Bilateral Agreements to Manage Low-skilled Labor Migration: Complementarity or Overlap to Trade Agreements?
  Philip Martin, Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Davis
• Can Services be Exported Through Bilateral Labor Agreements? An Assessment of Spain-Colombia and Spain-Ecuador Agreements
  Antonio Bonet, President of ACE International Consultants S.L. and Sebastian Saez, Senior Trade Economist, International Trade Department, World Bank Group
• Labour Migration in Asia and the Role of Bilateral Migration Agreements: Market Access Facilitation by Informal Means
  Graziano Battistella, Scalabrini Migration Center and BinodKhadria Jawaharlal, Nehru University
• Migration Control through Public-Private Parterships
  Tesseltje de Lange, Assistant Professor, Migration Law, Law Faculty of the University of Amsterdam
• Migration of Health Workers Under the Japan-Philippines and Japan-Indonesia Economic Partnership Agreements: Challenges and Implications of the Japanese Training Framework
  Yoshiko Naiki, Osaka University, Japan
• Mobilizing Development-friendly Investments and Entrepreneurship by Overseas Migrants
  Leila Rispens-Noel, INAFI International, Hong Kong and Jeremaiah Opiniano, Institute of Migration and Development Issues, Philippines
• Operationalising the ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement of Persons: Prospects for Sub-Regional Trade and Development
  Aderanti Adepoju, Coordinator, Network of Migration Research on Africa (NOMRA)
• Temporary Labor Migration from Egypt to the EU – Economic Benefits, Legal Background and Possible Outlines
  Caglar Ozden, Mirwat Sewadeh, Jackie Wahba

Presentations:

• ASEAN Free Movement Agenda
  Sophie Nonnenmacher, Senior Migration Policy Officer, IOM Regional Office, Bangkok
• Diaspora for Development in Africa
  Sonia Plazza and Dilip Ratha, Editors, The World Bank
• Evaluating Bilateral Labour Migration Agreements in Light of Human and Labour Rights
  Ryszard Cholewinski, International Migration Branch, International Labour Office, Geneva
• Free Movement in the EU
  Constantinos Fotakis, Adviser DG Employment,Social Affairs, European Commission
• Labour Migration in Asia and the Role of Bilateral Migration Agreements: Market Access Facilitation by Informal Means
  Graziano Battistella, Scalabrini Migration Center
• Low-skilled Labor Migration: Guest Worker Programs and Free Trade Agreements?
  Philip Martin, Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Davis
• Managing Labor Migration: The Philippine Experience -Government Perspective on the Privatization of Migration
  Jaime P. Gimenez, Deputy Administrator, Licensing and Adjudication Office, Philippine Overseas Employment Administration
• Migration of Health Workers Under the Japan-Philippines and Japan-Indonesia EPAs: Challenges and Implications of the Japanese Training Framework
  Yoshiko Naiki, Osaka University, Japan
• Mobilising Development-friendly Investments and Entrepreneurship by Migrants
  Leila Rispens-Noel, Senior Advisor, INAFI International
• Natural Persons Supplying Services in Trade Agreements: Mismatch with Immigration Law?
  Jürgen Bast, Senior Research Fellow
• Operationalising the ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement of Persons: Prospects for Sub-Regional Trade and Development
  Aderanti Adepoju, Coordinator, Network of Migration Research on Africa (NOMRA)
• Reinforcing the Contributions of African Diasporas to Development
  Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie, Up!‐Africa Limited
• Services, Labor Mobility and Bilateral Labor Agreements: The Case of Spain, Colombia & Ecuador
  Antonio Bonet, President, ACE and Sebastian Saez, Sr. Trade Economist, World Bank
• Should There Be Delegated Responsibility for Direct Migrant Recruitment
  Mark Carlo Tamayo, President of Perpetual Help Placement Services International and Chief Operating Officer of University of Perpetual Help System - Isabela Campus
• State-diaspora Partnerships and Bilateral Agreements: How Can they Help to Manage Migration?
  Miryam Hazán, Marion Panizzon, Sandra, Lavenex, and Sonia Plaza
• Temporary Labor Migration from Egypt to the EU – Economic Benefits, Legal Background and Possible Outlines
  Çaglar Özden, The World Bank
• Trade Policy in Mode 4 Movement of Natural Persons
  Jan P.R. Schmitz, European Commission, Directorate General for TRADE, B1 (Services and Investment)
• Trade Policy, Investment and Migration: The Liberalisation Paradigm
  Thomas Cottier & Charlotte Sieber-Gasser, World Trade Institute, University of Bern
• Where’s the Movement? Comparative Assessment of EU and US Migration and Trade Policies towards Latin America
  Cesla Amarelle, Centre de droit des migrations, Elisa Fornalé (Université de Neuchâtel)