Expert group meeting on international migration and development

The Expert Group Meeting is intended to provide a forum for the substantive exploration of key aspects of international migration and development, with the aim of seeking concrete ways to realize the benefits that international migration can have for development.

Among the aspects considered by participants, the meeting will focus on the economic impacts of international migration, the increasing relevance of skilled migration, the development effects of migrant remittances, and the management of migration flows. The migration experience of selected countries in different world regions will be also reviewed.

Wednesday, 6 July 2005

9:30 — 13:00

I. Opening of the meeting

II. Overview

• a. Marta Roig, United Nations Population Division. Levels and trends of international migration
• b. Victor Gaigbe-Togbe, United Nations Population Division. International migration policies 

III. Country perspectives I

• a. Yasushi Iguchi, Kwansei Gakuin University. Possibilities and limitations of Japanese migration policy in the context of economic partnership in East Asia
• b. Carunia M. Firdausy, Indonesian Institute of Science. Trends, issues and politics towards international labour migration: an Indonesian case stud

 15:00 — 18:00

IV. Development impacts of remittances

• a. Anne Harrison, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Challenges of estimating the distribution of remittances among migrant sending countries
• b. Pedro Vasconcelos, Inter-American Development Bank. Improving the development impact of remittances
• c. Jorge Mora Rivera, El Colegio de Mexico. The impact of migration and remittances on distribution and sources income: The Mexican rural case

Thursday, 7 July 2005

10:00 — 13:00

V. Skilled migration

• a. Jean-Christophe Dumont and George Lemaitre, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Counting immigrants and expatriates in OECD countries: A new perspective
• b. Barry Chiswick, University of Illinois. Highly skilled immigrants in the United States labour market
• c. Philip Martin, University of California, Davis. Managing labour migration: Professionals, guest workers and recruiters 
• d. Lindsay Lowell, Georgetown University. Policies and regulations for managing skilled international migration for work

15:00 — 18:00

VI. Country perspectives II

• a. Vincent Williams and Jonathan Crush, Southern African Migration Project International migration and development: Dynamics and challenges in South and Southern Africa
• b. Leonid Rybakovskiy and Sergei Riazantsev, Institute for Socio-political Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. International migration in the Russian Federation
• c. Pawel Kaczmarczyk and Marek Okólski, Warsaw University. International migration in Central and Eastern Europe: Current and future trends
• d. Jorge Martinez Pizarro, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. International migration in Latin America and the Caribbean

 Friday, 8 July 2005

10:00 — 13:00

VII. Economic impacts of international migration

• a. Riccardo Faini, University of Rome Tor Vergata. Some economic aspects of international migration
• b. Mark Rosenzweig, Harvard University. Consequences of migration for developing countries

VIII. Demographic impacts of international migration 

• Philippe Fargues, European University Institute. The global demographic benefit of international migration: A hypothesis and an application to Middle Eastern and North African contexts

15:00 –18:00

IX. Migration flows and their management

• a. To be announced, European Union, The European Union’s approach to the management of migration
• b. Michele Klein Solomon, International Organization for Migration. Consultative processes at the regional and international levels
• c. Irena Omelaniuk, World Bank. Trafficking in human beings

X. Summary and conclusions

Presentations

• Philip Martin. Managing labor migration in the 21st century

• Carunia Mulya Firdausy. Size, nature, issues and policies of international migration from Indonesia to Asia

• B. Lindsay Lowell. Policies and regulations for managing skilled international migration for work

• Jonathan Crush and Vincent Williams. International migration and development: Dynamics and challenges in South and Southern Africa

• José Jorge Mora Rivera. The impact of migration and remittances on distribution and sources income: The Mexican rural case

• Yasushi Iguchi. Possibilities and limitations of Japanese migration policy in the context of economic partnership in East Asia

• Mark R. Rosenzweig. Consequences of migration for developing countries

• Jean-Christophe Dumont. International mobility of the highly skilled: A new perspective and policy options

• Pedro de Vasconcelos. Sending money home: Remittances as a development tool in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Leonid Rybakovsky and Sergey Ryazantsev. International Migration in the Russian Federation

• Pawel Kaczmarczyk and Marek Okólski. International Migration in Central and Eastern Europe: Current and future trends

• Michele Klein Solomon. International migration management through inter-state consultation mechanisms

• Jorge Martínez Pizarro. International migration in Latin America and the Caribbean: A summary view of trends and patterns

• Irena Omelaniuk. Trafficking in Persons