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SUMMARY:Balanced Labour Migration: Targeted Labour Migration Policy for General Well-Being
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Dr. Monique Kremer\, University of Amsterdam \n\n\n\nDiscussants: Prof. Helen Schwenken (University of Osnabrück)\, TBC and Prof. Godfried Engbersen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) TBC \n\n\n\nDescription: Prof. Kremer will discuss how well-targeted labour migration policies can foster well-being and address skill shortages\, focusing on the balance between policy goals and societal impacts. \n\n\n\nFormat: Online \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker: \n\n\n\nMonique Kremer is chair of the Advisory Council on Migration and endowed professor of Active Citizenship at the University of Amsterdam. She has been affiliated with the Netherlands Institute for Care and Welfare\, Utrecht University and the Scientific Council for Government Policy. Her research focuses on the labour market\, labour migration and the practice of the welfare state in the super-diverse city. \n\n\n\nFrom 2004 to March 2020\, Monique was senior research fellow at the Scientific Council for Government Policy. At the WRR\, Monique contributed to the reports The welfare state reweighted\, Identification with the Netherlands (2007)\, Less pretension\, more ambition. Development aid that makes a difference (2010)\, Making Migration Work. The future of labour migration in the EU (2012)\, How unequal is the Netherlands? (2014)\, Mastering the Robot (2015)\, For the sake of security (2017)\, The Fall of the Middle Class? The stable and vulnerable middle (2017) and Better work. The new social mission (2020).
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SUMMARY:Labour Migration and Fair Recruitment for Decent Work: Addressing Irregular Migration
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Charles Allan Kwenin\, Chief Executive Officer of IMPRAC\, Ghana \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Maegan Hendow (ICMPD)\, Prof. Mary Setrana\, University of Ghana \n\n\n\nDescription: This session will examine fair recruitment practices and strategies to address irregular migration\, with a focus on ethical and sustainable approaches to labour mobility. \n\n\n\nFormat: Online \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker:  \n\n\n\nCharles Allan Kwenin has over 30 years experience in migration policy and practice with the International Organization for Migration (The UN Migration Agency). Until his retirement in 2022\, Mr. Kwenin served as the IOM Regional Director for Southern Africa providing strategic direction and policy support to 15 Countries in the Southern Africa Region as well as COMESA\, IOC and SADC. He also served as the Senior Regional Advisor for Africa to the IOM Director General at its Headquarters in Geneva for 8 years. Prior to that Mr. Kwenin served as IOM Chief of Mission to Ethiopia and IOM Representative to the Africa Union Commission (AUC)\, UNECA and IGAD. He also served in various capacities in IOM in Kenya\, Uganda and Brussels. Mr. Kwenin was the lead Consultant for drafting the African Union Migration Policy Framework for Africa and the African Common Position on Migration and Development adopted in Banjul\, The Gambia in 2006. Mr. Kwenin also pioneered the establishment of the Pan African Forum on Migration (PAFOM) a continental platform for inter-state and intra-regional consultations on Migration in Africa. Mr. Kwenin coordinated the drafting of the Bilateral Labour Agreement (BLA) between the governments of Ghana and Mauritius. Mr. Kwenin was very instrumental in the establishment of various Regional Consultative Processes for the African Regional Economic Communities including; ECOWAS\, IGAD\, COMESA\, ECCAS and IOC. From 2022 – 2024\, Mr. Kwenin was Co-Editor for the IOM Migration Policy and Practice and the Editor-in Chief for the Southern Africa Migration Report. Prior to joining IOM\, Mr. Kwenin worked for the Ghana Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning as an Economic Planning Office from 1985 until 1990. Mr Kwenin holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration and Management and a Post Graduate Diploma in Development Policy from the State University of Antwerp Belgium. He also holds a B.Sc (Hons) Degree in Development Planning from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST).
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