Our project members, Prof. Dr. Ludger Pries and Dr. Berna Şafak Zülfikar Savcı, have contributed a chapter to the latest publication by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on temporary labour migration: "Temporary labour migration: Towards social justice?". In their chapter, titled “Forced migrants as a neglected group of temporary labour migrants? Empirical evidence from migration trajectories of refugees and migrants in Mexico and Türkiye”, the authors demonstrate that forced migrants often engage in temporary labour under precarious conditions and should therefore be included in the debate around protection mechanisms for temporary labour. The full publication is available here.

Content

Introduction

Understanding barriers to social justice, protection needs, evolving paradigms and past practices to shape future temporary labour migration

Christiane Kuptsch and Fabiola Mieres

Part 1 – Temporary labour migration: Transient categories, shifting paradigms and their policy implications

Chapter 1: Temporary, seasonal, circular and permanent migration: A critical appraisal

Ronald Skeldon

Chapter 2: Back to the future? Temporary labour migration, international standards, global policy dialogues on migration governance and the Global Compact on Migration

Ryszard Cholewinski

Chapter 3: Mobility within the European Union: Capturing its complexity to guide policy

Christian Schramm

Part 2 – Revisiting temporary movements in the global economy: “Problematic” migration versus “unproblematic” mobility?

Chapter 4: Challenging the global migration/mobility programme policy construct: Labour market (in)security under Canada’s “new” International Mobility Program

Leah F. Vosko

Chapter 5: Business mobility as a privileged form of temporary labour migration: Insights from the MITA database and Switzerland

Sandra Lavenex, Mariana Alvarado, Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik and Philipp Lutz

Chapter 6: Forced migrants as a neglected group of temporary labour migrants? Empirical evidence from migration trajectories of refugees and migrants in Mexico and Türkiye

Ludger Pries and Berna Şafak Zülfikar Savcı

Part 3 – Protection and power structures: Policy tools under scrutiny

Chapter 7: Addressing challenges in the design and implementation of temporary labour migration programmes: Policy coherence and the social partners

Natalia Popova

Chapter 8: Is portability a panacea? Changing employers in US temporary migration programmes

Daniel Costa

Chapter 9: Migration diplomacy between African and Middle Eastern countries: The role and impact of Bilateral Labour Migration Agreements

Sophia Kagan

Part 4 – A longer-term view on temporary labour migration: Learning from the past to prepare for the future

Chapter 10: Temporary labour migration from North Africa: Historical legacies and future dilemmas

Aurelia Segatti

Chapter 11; Temporary labour migration in Switzerland: The life, death and rebirth of the “guestworker”

Etienne Piguet

Chapter 12: A brave new (post-pandemic) world: A principles-based approach to regulating temporary labour migration in Australia

Joanna Howe

Conclusion

Temporary labour migration: Building pathways to social justice

Fabiola Mieres and Christiane Kuptsch