1. Inserting Migrants Into the Global Social Protection Floor
- Author:
- Marie-Hélène Ratel, Gabriel Williams, and Keegan Williams
- Publication Date:
- 09-2013
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Centre for International Governance Innovation
- Abstract:
- Unprecedented human migration is an issue of critical importance in today's rapidly globalizing world. International migrants constitute a group with more people than the population of Brazil, and they send more money home each year than the entire value of Argentina's economy (International Organization for Migration [IOM], 2013). Migration flows have doubled since 1980 and show no signs of slowing down due to growing inequalities in global development, population pressure, environmental change and conflict (Koser, 2010). Compared to the majority of citizens in many countries, migrants face heightened risks because they do not receive adequate social protections such as health care, income security, education, housing or access to clean water and sanitation.
- Topic:
- Economics, Migration, Social Stratification, Labor Issues, Immigration, and Sociology
- Political Geography:
- Brazil and Argentina