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Association: Name: ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES URL: http://www.isanet.org
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"Global Governance of High-Skilled Labour Migration" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, Mar 26, 2008 <Not Available>. 2010-01-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p252927_index.html>

, 2008-03-26 "Global Governance of High-Skilled Labour Migration" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA <Not Available>. 2010-01-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p252927_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: With the recent emergence of international institutions (such as the Global Commission on International Migration) and agreements (GATS Mode 4), the question of a shift towards the global governance of different types of migration has been widely debated among the academic and policy community. This paper will particularly treat high-skilled labour migration, i.e. migrants with university degree or relevant skills/ training. Some efforts for harmonized high-skilled labour migration policy are already visible at the regional level, but no international organisation solely dealing with global labour migration exists to date. The interests of all actors (e.g. sending and receiving countries, labour migrants, companies) are hard to reconcile. For example, receiving countries are concerned about sovereignty, welfare benefits, social cohesion and the impact on native labour markets. In contrast, sending countries are mostly interested in placing excess labour supply overseas (without experiencing brain drain in the case of high-skilled workers), acquiring and transferring home skills and resources, and facilitating the flow of remittances. Global governance could facilitate the exchange of high-skilled labour and employ enforceable mechanisms to guarantee the effectiveness of policies. Especially temporary migration could fulfil the interests of sending and receiving countries, to enable standardized skill recognition and thus to contribute to brain circulation, rather than to brain drain or brain waste. Nevertheless, agreements at the global level do not seem to have been very successful so far since obstacles take place at the national level. Different labour market needs exist across countries and thus national governments are reluctant to cede their responsibility for regulating labour market access and granting rights to immigrants to the global level. Overall, receiving countries have different high-skilled migration preferences from sending countries. As a result, this cost-benefit analysis is also transplanted to the global level. This paper will consider position papers, press outputs and interviews, as well as trace developments on this issue from its first appearance to present. The discussion will draw upon outcomes and policy experiences with attempts of multilateral agreements, regional governance and the positions of international organisations and national governments in regard to global governance of high-skilled labour migration.

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