A global social contract: New steps towards a rights-based approach to migration governance?

Hujo, Katja

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“…For this study, we relied on an institutional framing of governance (that focuses on the types of rules, informal or formal, that influence responses to demand and supply relations [12]) and defined SHW migration governance as a system of rules which exist to provide oversight of the SHW migration process, mitigate the impact of SHW migration on health service delivery, and that directly or indirectly influence SHW's intention to migrate. Inherent to this definition is our recognition of human rights norms as essential for promoting migration and health system governance systems that are people-centred [13,14]. These norms include the right to migrate, fair wages, and proper working conditions for SHWs, while protecting access to essential health services and the preconditions for health.…”

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Scope of health worker migration governance and its impact on emigration intentions among skilled health workers in Nigeria

Yakubu

Shanthosh²,

Adebayo³

et al. 2023

PLOS Glob Public Health

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The growing trends for skilled health worker (SHW) migration in Nigeria has led to increased concerns about achieving universal health coverage in the country. While a lot is known about drivers of SHW migration, including national/sub-national government’s inability to address them, not enough is known about its governance. Underpinning good governance systems is a commitment to human rights norms, that is, principles that enshrine non-discrimination, participation, accountability, and transparency. Hence, this study was aimed at deriving a conceptual framework that captures the scope of SHW migration governance in Nigeria and the extent to which it is human rights based. To describe the scope of SHW migration governance, we conducted an exploratory factor analysis and mapped our findings to themes derived from a qualitative analysis. We also did a multivariate analysis, examining how governance items are related to migration intentions of SHWs. The scope of SHW migration governance in Nigeria can be described across three levels: Constitutional—where policies about the economy and the health workforce are made and often poorly implemented; Collective—which responds to the governance vacuum at the constitutional level by promoting SHW migration or trying to mitigate its impact; Operational—individual SHWs who navigate the tension between the right to health, their right to fair remuneration, living/working conditions, and free movement. Examining these levels revealed opportunities for collaboration through stronger commitment to human right norms. In recognising their role as rights holders and duty bearers at various levels, citizens, health advocates, health workers, community groups and policy makers can work collaboratively towards addressing factors related to SHW migration. Further evidence is needed on how human rights norms can play a visible role in Nigeria’s governance system for SHW migration.

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Scope of health worker migration governance and its impact on emigration intentions among skilled health workers in Nigeria

Yakubu

Shanthosh²,

Adebayo³

et al. 2023

PLOS Glob Public Health

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“…To date, existing domestic migration governance frameworks have focused solely on migration management (i.e., oversight of the migratory process by constitutional level actors) and to a lesser extent, the involvement of all stakeholders in achieving an equitable health workforce distribution 20,21 . Promoting a participatory approach to SHW migration governance will require a recognition of the indivisibility of all rights at stake 22–24 . At the barest minimum, it will require striking a balance between the right to health in source and destination countries and SHWs' rights as migrants 4,15,21,25–28 .…”

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“…20,21 Promoting a participatory approach to SHW migration governance will require a recognition of the indivisibility of all rights at stake. [22][23][24] At the barest minimum, it will require striking a balance between the right to health in source and destination countries and SHWs' rights as migrants. 4,15,21,[25][26][27][28] While a rights-based governance framework is typically limited to international human rights law, we examined an integrated rights-based approach to SHW migration governance in this study.…”

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Promoting equitable health workforce distribution through improved migration governance: A mixed methods study of African health professionals' perceptions in Australia

Yakubu,

Campain,

Abimbola

et al. 2023

Health Planning & Management

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BackgroundThis study examined skilled health worker (SHW) migration governance in African countries and Australia, with an emphasis on areas of influence for achieving an equitable global health workforce distribution.MethodsWe used a mixed‐methods research design with African SHW migrants in Australia. An institutional and rights‐based framing of governance guided thematic analysis of the interviews, which was mapped to survey findings from a Bayesian Exploratory Factor Analysis.ResultsThe findings imply that Australian state actors enforce laws that attract SHW migrants and promote safe clinical practice, but do not adequately address their integration concerns or role in health system strengthening. Non‐state actors in Australia make donations to African health institutions but rarely promote health workforce equity. African state actors respond to increased SHW migration trends by increasing health worker training and limiting migration, but they lack a comprehensive governance framework for involving citizens and engaging foreign governments. There is limited evidence of a shared community definition of SHW migration governance in many African countries.ConclusionWhen stakeholders in both sending and receiving countries recognise the indivisibility of the rights at stake (for example, SHW rights as migrants and the right to health), support for an equity‐focused SHW migration governance system may increase. Promoting these rights can result in policies that enhance health system strengthening in destination and source countries. Similarly, growing adoption of these rights in sending countries should help inspire a coordinated plan for strengthening health system and SHW migration governance.

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“…Ferris and Donato, 2019;Newland, 2019;Klein Solomon and Sheldon, 2019;Ferris and Martin, 2019;Guild, 2018;Vitorino, 2019;McAdam, 2019;Rother and Steinhilper, 2019;Wouters and Wauters, 2019). The second to assessments of the content of the Compacts from different thematic perspectives such as human rights (Gest et al, 2019;Guild et al, 2019;Hujo, 2019;Delgado Wise, 2018b); the facilitation of mobility (Costello, 2019;Crépeau, 2019); detention (Majcher, 2019); forced migration (Jubilut & Casagrande, 2019); labour markets (Martin and Ruhs 2019); travel security (Koslowski, 2019); climate (Warner, 2018) and gender (Hennebry & Petrozziello, 2019). The third category captures literature that reflects on the (potential) impact of the Compacts from a geographical perspective (c.f.…”

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“…It is widely accepted that the Global Compact process was triggered by the increase in the number of people arriving in Europe (c.f. Betts, 2018;Guild, 2018;Klein Solomon and Sheldon, 2019;Newland, 2019;Arnold-Fernández, 2019;Hujo, 2019;and Maiyegun, 2019):…”

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International organizations and global migration governance

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Recent years have seen migration rise to the top of political agendas around the world. A series of 'migration crises' in 2015 demonstrated the limits of the existing international architecture leading states to reconsider the global response to migration. In October 2016, in addition to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) joining the United Nations (UN), 193 UN Member States unanimously agreed upon the New York Declaration (NYD) at the closing of the High-Level Summit to Address Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants, to commit themselves to negotiate two Global Compacts by 2018, one on migration and the other on refugees. This decision commenced two years of consultations and negotiations, which concluded with the adoption of a Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) and a Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) in December 2018. By bringing IOM into the UN system and endorsing a comprehensive set of, albeit non-binding, commitments, states acknowledged migration as a global governance issue and accepted the necessity of institutionalizing migration within the UN. Next to the migration crises of 2015, which provided the necessary 'window of opportunity' to pursue institutional change, however, this dissertation argues that reframing migration as a development issue by the UN was key to the process of institutionalizing migration into the UN. The inclusion of migration in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 was a key milestone securing consensus among UN Member States that migration, an issue previously held at arms-length from the UN, was indeed relevant to its mandate. Hence, the dissertation investigates how migration became a global governance issue, and the role played by the UN in this process.Building on theoretical insights from the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), and the methodological principles of process-tracing, the dissertation tells the story of how migration has evolved as a global policy issue since 1919. Framing analysis is used to analyse the different ways that migration has been framed, by whom, and to what end. Drawing on interviews with 43 key protagonists, actors involved in global-level discussions on migration, and the UN archives, the dissertation explores four case studies that shed light on how IOs have influenced global migration governance:1) the creation of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) (Chapter 5); 2) the inclusion of migration in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Chapter 6);Last but by absolutely no means least. To my incredible husband, Remco, who has weathered many storms in the making of this book. Zelfs je naam is mooi.x Table of ContentsABSTRACT .

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A global social contract: New steps towards a rights-based approach to migration governance?

Cited by 5 publications

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Scope of health worker migration governance and its impact on emigration intentions among skilled health workers in Nigeria

Scope of health worker migration governance and its impact on emigration intentions among skilled health workers in Nigeria

Promoting equitable health workforce distribution through improved migration governance: A mixed methods study of African health professionals' perceptions in Australia

International organizations and global migration governance

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