meeting:after_myanmar_policy_dialogue_20-21_july_17
What are the point of view:
- Need to send more workers abroad? Why? Destination still need workers? How many? For how long? How many? How to manage? How to collaborate and share responsibilities, benefits, burden … between origin and destination countries?
- How to arrange the process of sending, receiving and reintegration? Could set up the term of migration, such as 2-4 years has to be back to take care home two years, then can apply again. It will avoid the negative impacts that the returned is only eldership, sickness, handicap, drug addicted, which is new burden on the origin country government in solving poverty issues.
- How to protect and assist migrants while they face problems? How to form migrant’s association or group to ease contact and disseminate information.
- How to elevate migrant’s rights to stay, to work, to earn, to care their children or subordinate family? To send money home?
- Need to solve the issues of 3 groups at the same time:
| Potential or pre-migrants | Workers &community at the borders | Workers in Thailand |
|---|---|---|
| Informed choices Informed policy | How to educate How to reintegrate arrangement | Legalize Followup Form associations/mechanism for helping each other Next step |
- What are the “legal document package?”
- How to ease the process in order to allow migrants to access to the package?
- What are benefits in comparison between advantage and disadvantage? Need accurate assessment.
- Need win-win solution betwee: Gvt and Gvt; Gvt and employers or private sector; employers and workers;
- Network/system to disseminate required information at the destination country. Roles of Gvt.
- What is policy for daily and seasonal workers along border?
- Should have common standard for sending and receiving countries in the region.
- Migration is a cross cutting issues, should be part of policy and strategic plan development for every issue.
- Work system is needed
“Brokers bring us to employment rather than official channels”.
Questions : Q1: What are the 3 priority areas of actions need to be done to assist workers abroad? (esp. in the case of Thailand) Q2: What are the 3 concrete things we can do together as origin country?
A1:
- Provide free access for migrants to have legal documents during given time.
- Prepare assistance package to workers who decide to return home, or deported after the restriction start.
- Review the strategy to send, receive and reintegration workers.
A2: Common guidelines development for disseminating to workers Negotiate or
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