GMPA: Global Migration Policy Associates

Regional Migration Governance

• Rapporteur Summary, Global Parliamentary Conference on refugees and migration, Istanbul, June 2022
• Regional mobility, freedom of movement and integration: integral to sustainable development and governance worldwide; Contemporary political-economic challenges, contentions and responses. Taran, 2018.
• Promoting better regional cooperation towards smart and humane migration across the Mediterranean: Rapporteurs Summary Statement. Taran, 2017.

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Africa   

• Just published! Technical Capacity-building Manual. Admission and Post-Admission Labour Migration Policies and Tools: Guidance for main Countries of Destination in Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean region. International Labour Office, ILO, Pretoria, 2024. (184 pages) Prepared by Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA) expert team: Piyasiri Wickramasekara, Chandima Arambepola,  Patrick Taran and Olga Kadysheva.

• Background Report for the IGAD Regional Guidelines on Rights-Based Bilateral Labour Agreements (IGAD-ILO, 2021) (EN/FR), P.Taran, P.Wickramasekara, O.Kadysheva & M. Muswede.
• IGAD Regional Guidelines on Rights-Based Bilateral Labour Agreements  (IGAD, 2021),  P. Wickramasekara and P. Taran.
• Global warming impacts displacing the Maasai community in East Africa: challenges and responses. H. Hirani (2022), Revista Tecnológica - Espol
• Women migrant workers’ labour market situation in West Africa, ILO, 2020 (drafted by V. Castillo Rueda)
• Report of the Workshop for the development of a training and capacity building plan on the role of labour institutions and migration authorities/agencies on labour migration governance, IOM-AU-ILO, 2018
• Free Movement, Labour Mobility, Regional Integration and Development: Keys to Africa Moving in the 21st Century, TARAN, 2015.
• Programme Brief: Governance for Development and Integration in Africa, A bold new Initiative. AUC-ILO-IOM-UNECA. 2015. (Brief prepared by Patrick Taran)
• SASPEN Keynote: Social Protection for Migrants in Southern Africa, TARAN, 2014.
• ECOWAS Protocols Free Movement - Nigerian Domestication Assessment, 2014.
• ILO C-181 Private Employment Agencies - Nigerian Domestication Assessment, 2014.
• ILO C-189 Domestic Workers - - Nigerian Domestication Assessment, 2014.
• Etat des Lieux des Données sur la Migration de Main d’Oeuvre en Mauritanie dans le Cadre du Programme RBSA, NIANG, 2010
• European Migration Control in the African Territory: the Omission of the Extraterritorial Character of Human Rights Obligations, CERIANI, 2009.
• Migration and Deportation in West Africa, Chapter 3: Migrant Rights and Migration Control Policies in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights: Challenges, Obstacles and Opportunities for Litigation, CERIANI, 2008.
• Migration, Globalization and Human Rights: New Challenges for Africa, TARAN, 1999.

Americas

• Luces y Sombras en la Legislacion Migratoria Latinamericana, CERIANI, 2011.
• Are Migrant Worker's Rights Human Rights? Hoffman Plastics v NLRB and the Sovereign Power to Discriminate under International Law, SIMEONE, 2005.

Asia

• Return and reintegration challenges and policy responses in Asia following the COVID-19 pandemic. P.Wickramasekara, ADBI – OECD – ILO, 2022.
• Women Migrant Workers in the Laws and Policies of ASEAN Member States, ASEAN, 2022 (authored by J.Aeberhard-Hodges & R.Chaudhary)
• COVID-19 Pandemic and Migrant Workers in Malaysia and Singapore with Special Focus on South Asian Workers. P.Wickramasekara, 2020.
• Malaysia: Review of admission and recruitment practices of Indonesian workers in the plantation and domestic work sectors and related recommendations. P.Wickramasekara, ILO, 2020.
• Effective return and reintegration of migrant workers with special focus on ASEAN Member States. P.Wickramasekara, ILO, 2019.
• Accession with low compliance: Sri Lanka’s experience with the 1990 International Convention on Migrant Workers. P.Wickramasekara, 2019.
• Migration, development and governance: labour and skills mobility, international standards and comprehensive migration policy for Taiwan. Taran, 2018.
• Assessment guide for bilateral agreements and memoranda of understanding on labour migration with special focus on Bangladesh. P.Wickramasekara, ILO, 2018.
• Colombo GC2 Report
• Development-Forced Land Grabs and Resistance in Reforming Myanmar: The Letpadaung Copper Mine. E. Zerrouk - Chapter 10 in: Global Implications of Development, Disasters and Climate Change: Responses to Displacement from Asia Pacific.  S.Price & J.Singer (Eds), Routledge, 2016.
• Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas: Assessment of South Asian Countries, WICKRAMASEKARA, 2015.
• The Media Discourse of Land Grabbing and Resistance During Myanmar’s Legal Reformation: The Monywa Copper Mine. E. Zerrouk & A.Neef, 2014
• Water Grabbing/ Land Grabbing in Shared Water Basins the Case of Salween River Hatgyi Dam. E. Zerrouk. (2013)
• Labour migration for decent work in Afghanistan: Issues and Challenges, WICKRAMASEKARA & BARUAH, 2013.
• Looking after Left-Behind Families of Filipino Workers: The Philippine Experience, ASIS, 2012.
• Gender and Labour Migration in Asia, IOM book, include article from PIPER, 2009.

Carribean

• Making Visible the Violence against Haitian Migrant, in-Transit and Displaced Women on the Dominican-Haitian Border, WOODING & PETROZZIELLO, 2012.
• La Presencia de las Mujeres Migrantes Haitianas en el Servicio Doméstico en la República Dominicana.” WOODING & SANGRO, 2011.
• Shaping up Ground Human Trafficking Hispanola, UNESCO Diversities, WOODING, 2011.
• Needed but Unwanted: Haitian Immigrants and Their Descendants in the Dominican Republic, WOODING & MOSELEY-WILLIAMS, 2004.

Eurasia

•  China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its Impact on Migration and Policies in Central Asia, Ye.Sadovskaya, ICMPD, 2019.
• Инициатива Китая «Пояс и Путь» и ее влияние на миграционные потоки и политику в Центральной Азии, Е.Садовская, ICMPD, 2019.
• Proposals for Russia Migration Strategy through 2035, Ivakhnyuk, RIAC, 2017.
• Тенденции и закономерности процессов международной миграции в эпоху глобализации, O. Кадышева, Вестник Института экономики РАН, 2016
• Are the Historical Lessons of the Tsarist and Totalitarian Migration Policy Worth Learning or Sinking into Obscurity? IVAKHNYUK, 2011.
• International Legal Standards and Policy Frameworks: Essential Parameters for Regulating Migration in Central Asia, TARAN, 2006.
• Regulating Migration: A Key to Russia's Future: A Contribution to the Hearing on Irregular Migration and Security, TARAN, 2006.

Europe

• Common Home: Migration and Development in Europe and beyond. Caritas Europa-GMPA, 2019.
• Common Home: Migration and Development national studies covering: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Sweden, 2019.
• Andean migrant associations' host and home country engagement: lessons from the cantons of Geneva and Vaud, Switzerland, V. Castillo Rueda, 2019 (Doctoral Thesis, UNIGE)
• Cities welcoming refugees and migrants: enhancing effective urban governance in an age of migration. UNESCO-ECCAR-GMPA, 2016.
• Migrants and Refugees Have Rights: Impact of EU Policies on Accessing Protection Caritas Europa, 2015, researched and written by GMPA team
• Context Background Note on Migration Today: Key Issues for Europe, TARAN, 2013.
• Etat des lieux des associations de migrants des Cantons de Genève et Vaud, V. Castillo Rueda &  I.Obadiaru, 2012. FGC & FEDEVAC.
• Restructuring EU-MENA Relations in the Wake of Arab Revolts: A Critical Perspective from the South, FAKHOURY, 2012.
• Crisis, Migration and Precarious Work: Impacts and Responses with a Focus on European Union Countries, TARAN, 2011.
• Data on Discrimination in EU Countries: Statistics, Research and the Drive for Comparability, WRENCH, 2011.
• Labour Market Performance and Migration Flows in Arab Mediterranean Countries: Determinants and Effects, Volume 1, FAKHOURY, VENTURINI & JOUANT, 2010.
•  L'engagement des associations de migrants dans le développement du pays d'origine : cas d'étude : les projets de codéveloppement entre l'Espagne et la Colombie, V. Castillo Rueda, 2009. (MA Thesis, IHEID)
• La Directiva de Retorno de la UE: Apuntes Críticos Desde una Perspectiva de Derechos Humanos, CERIANI, 2009.
• How Well Does Education Travel? Education and Occupation Migration, GACHTER & SMOLINER, 2009.
• Migrant Workers Rights in Europe: Issues and Challenges, TARAN, 2009.
• Diversity Management and Discrimination: Experiments in the EU, WRENCH, 2008.
• House of Lords Hearing Economic Migration to the EU, TARAN, 2005.
• International Conventions on Migration: Ensuring Regulation under the Rule of Law, TARAN, 2004.
• Trade Union Responses to Immigration and Ethnic Inequality in Denmark and the UK: The Context of Conflict and Consensus, WRENCH, 2004.
• Ambiguities of Emigration: Bulgaria since 1988, GACHTER, 2002.
• Anti-Discrimination Training at the Wortkplace in Europe: The Application of an International Typology, WRENCH, 2001.
• Combating Employment Discrimination in Europe: National Variation and the Dawn of Good Practice, WRENCH, 2000.

Middle East & North Africa

• Maghreb migration, politiques en manque de boussole. M. Lahlou, mars 2023.
• Maghreb Migration Policies Bereft Compass. M. Lahlou, March 2023.
• Umma and the nation‑state: dilemmas in refuge ethics, Mohammed and Jureidini, 2022.
• The Islamic Principle of Kafala as Applied to Migrant Workers: Traditional Continuity and Reform, Jureidini & Hassan, 2020.
• Global Governance and Labour Migration in the GCC, Jureidini, 2019.
• Vagaries in the Management of Migrant Domestic Workers from the Philippines: A Case Study from Lebanon, Jureidini, 2019.
•  Assessment of the Wage Protection System in Qatar. ILO, 2019. (authored by R. Jureidini).
•  Irregular Migration in Qatar: The Role of Legislation, Policies, and Practices, Jureidini, 2017. 
•  Islamic Ethics and Migrant Labor in Qatar, Jureidini, 2017.
• Transnational Culture of Corruption in Migrant Labour Recruitment, Jureidini, 2017.
• Wage Protection Systems and Programmes in the GCC, Jureidini, 2017.
• The Convergence of Migrants and Refugees: Western and Muslim Perspectives, Jureidini and Reda, 2017.
• Ways forward in recruitment of 'low-skilled' migrant workers in the Asia-Arab states corridor: ILO white paper, Jureidini, 2016.
• Migrant Labor Recruitment to Qatar, Jureidini, 2014.
• Challenges of Post 'Arab Spring' Warfare, Repression and Intervention in Context of Globalized Migration, Taran, 2014.
• Emigration from Arab and Sub-Saharan Regions: Inquiry into Push Factors, Policies and Diasporas' Contributions to Development, Fakhoury, 2012.
• EU Global Approach to Migration: Policy Framework in EU-Arab Mediterranean Context? Fakhoury, 2012.
• Restructuring EU-MENA Relations in the Wake of Arab Revolts: A Critical Perspective from the South, Fakhoury, 2012.
• The Role of Academia in Informing Policies in Light of the Arab Uprisings, Fakhoury, 2012.
• Migration in MENA Countries: challenges of 'Arab Spring' Upheavals in Context of Globalized Migration, Taran, 2011.
• Mixed Migration Flows: Somali and Ethiopian Migration to Yemen and Turkey,  Jureidini, 2010.
• Labour Market Performance and Migration Flows in Arab Mediterranean Countries: Determinants and Effects, Volume 1, FAKHOURY, VENTURINI & JOUANT, 2010.
• In the Shadows of Family Life: Toward a History of Domestic Service in Lebanon, Jureidini, 2009. 

Oceania-Pacific

• Global Warming and Displacement: Challenges and Solutions in the Maldives. R.Beke (2022), Revista Tecnológica - Espol