[Foreign Policy] Global Compact for Migration - Labor Migration and Brain Drain

The promotion of migration is often seen as "leftist", the aid as "humanistic" and the consequences as "cosmopolitan". All these terms are positively occupied and disguise whose interests are served here. It is about supplying the local labor market with cheap workers. In migration from low-wage countries to high-wage countries, employers and investors profit on a large scale. Leftists who want to represent the working class and its interests should therefore reject this UN migration agreement.

Global corporations and billionaires have great political influence and are well organized. One lobby is the annual World Economic Forum held in Switzerland. Migration is good for business, but companies cautiously approach the issue to avoid criticism. For this the World Economic Forum published the paper "The Business Case for Migration" in 2013. It promotes the facilitation of labor migration and companies' access to workers.

"Migration was once understood as a relationship between an individual and a state. Today, it is better understood as a relationship between an individual and an employer, mediated by the state. "
[1,S.41]


On 11 December, the "Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular Migration" will be signed in Marrakech (Morocco). In doing so, the signatories commit themselves to promoting international migration. This is not about escape or asylum, this is a separate agreement, but to labor migration. Illegal migration is never mentioned in this UN migration agreement and it is not differentiated between them. This UN migration agreement tracks migration in the interests of business like the paper "The Business Case for Migration".

"... we recognize that it is a source of prosperity, innovation and sustainable development in our globalized world, ...
We also must provide all our citizens with access to objective, evidence-based, clear information about the benefits and challenges of migration, with a view to dispelling misleading narratives that generate negative perceptions of migrants. "
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The consequences of this labor migration will not be dealt with. Labor migration leads to a lack of workers in the countries of origin. The recruitment of expensive skilled workers leads to the subsidization of the destination countries by the countries of origin and the lack of expensive trained professionals in the countries of origin. In the destination countries, the oversupply of workers leads to increased wage pressure and wage cuts. This brain drain occurs at the expense of the countries of origin and the working class in the destination countries, but serves the companies in the destination countries.

"We commit to adapt options and pathways for regular migration in a manner that facilitates labour mobility ...
... with a view to expanding and diversifying availability of pathways for safe, orderly and regular migration. "
[2,S.11]


The problems of brain drain as well as wage pressure and wage cuts due to the oversupply in the labor market are concealed throughout the agreement. Out-migration is good for everyone. Basta.

Migrant workers come with education and training paid for by their country of origin. However, a solution for this brain drain is not offered in the UN migration agreement. On the other hand, it is important to be able to hire highly skilled professionals in the target countries.

"Promote effective skills matching in the national economy by involving local authorities and other relevant stakeholders, particularly the private sector and trade unions, in the analysis of the local labour market, identification of skills gaps, definition of required skills profiles, and evaluation of the efficacy of labour migration policies, in order to ensure market-responsive contractual labour mobility through regular pathways. "
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The Migration Pact thus succeeds in causing damage in both countries through brain drain, wage pressure and wage cuts due to the oversupply in the labor market. It is mainly companies that profit from low wages due to oversupply in the labor market.

In German-speaking countries, there are at least two major and one public petitions to the UN migration agreement:

https://migrationspakt-stoppen.info/
https://www.abgeordneten-check.de/kampagnen/globalen-pakt-und-massenmigration-verhindern/startseite/
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2018/_11/_01/Petition_85565.mitzeichnen.html


[1] The Business Case for Migration:
http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GAC/2013/WEF_GAC_Migration_BusinessCase_Report_2013.pdf
[2] Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular Migration:
https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/sites/default/files/180713_agreed_outcome_global_compact_for_migration.pdf

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