Migration Dialogue provides timely, factual and nonpartisan information and analysis of international migration issues through five major activities: the newsletters Migration News and Rural Migration News, Changing Face and other Research & Seminars, and the Sloan West Coast Program on Science and Engineering Workers.
Contact us at migrant@primal.ucdavis.edu.
The third Global Forum on Migration and Development was held in Athens November 2-6, 2009 (www.gfmd2009.org); the theme was Integrating Migration Policies into Development Strategies for the Benefit of All. The GFMD includes three roundtables or panel discussions. The first focuses on a theme selected by the host country, the second on labor migration, and the third on ways to increase coherence between migration and development policies and improve migration data.
Roundtable 1 focused on including migration in country development assistance strategies, such as creating partnerships between migrant-sending and ?receiving countries under which health-care workers are trained at receiving-country expense in the sending country, work for a period in the receiving country, and return home. The question is whether and to what extent such partnerships should be between private employers and private schools or between government agencies.
The roundtable also examined ways in which migrants settled abroad? the diaspora? can contribute to development in their countries of origin. It also considered more speculative issues, such as the effect of the 2008-09 recession, climate change, and other factors on migration and development.
Migration News is produced with the support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacAurther Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and UCB Institute of European Studies. A paper edition is available by mail for $30 domestic and $50 foreign for one year and $55 and $95 for two years. Make checks payable to Migration Dialogue and send to
Philip Martin, Department of Ag and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, California 95616 USA.
Rural Migration News is produced with the support of the Colcom, Farm, and Giannini Foundations, and the UCD Gifford Center for Population Studies. A paper edition is available by mail for $30 domestic and $50 foreign for one year and $55 and $95 for two-years. Make checks payable to Migration Dialogue and send to
Philip Martin, Department of Ag and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, California 95616 USA.
This network of researchers hosts seminars on labor and immigration issues affecting science and engineering workers, compiles and distributes information on these issues, and cooperates closely with the NBER's SEWP.
The Changing Face project assesses the effects of immigrant farm workers on agriculture and agricultural communities.
Include Opinion Leader Seminars, the Comparative Immigration and Integration Program, and Transatlantic Migration Policy Issue seminars.
