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Quo Vadis? Recruitment and Contracting of Migrant Workers and their Access to Social Security

The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute and Latin American Program and the Institute for Studies and Communication on Migration (Instituto de Estudios y Divulgación sobre Migración, INEDIM) were pleased to host a presentation of the following study: Quo Vadis? Recruitment and Contracting of Migrant Workers and their Access to Social Security: The Dynamics of Temporary Labor Migration Systems in North and Central America.

Date & Time

Wednesday
Apr. 17, 2013
9:00am – 11:00am ET

Location

4th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
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Overview

The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute and Latin American Program and the Institute for Studies and Communication on Migration (Instituto de Estudios y Divulgación sobre Migración, INEDIM) were pleased to host a presentation of the following study: Quo Vadis? Recruitment and Contracting of Migrant Workers and their Access to Social Security: The Dynamics of Temporary Labor Migration Systems in North and Central America.

The study stems from a two-year investigation and assessment of temporary worker programs in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America. Its presentation adds to recent assessments of the H-2A and H-2B temporary worker programs in the US, and affords recent discussions of immigration reform further evidence of the problems and challenges of consolidating well regulated, rights-based temporary worker programs.

The research document, commissioned by INEDIM and written by Alejandra Ancheita and Gisele Bonnici, uses in-depth interviews and policy, legal and comparative analysis to probe six temporary migration systems in the region. The report assesses how the migration systems protect, ensure and promote the rights of temporary workers. The study focuses on two areas of policy: 1) worker recruitment and related regulation mechanisms and 2) social security schemes and related protection mechanisms.

While the study looks at six systems in seven countries—Canada, Mexico, the United States, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Nicaragua—the presentation and dialogue focused specifically on the H2 visa temporary program in the United States. We expect the good practices, lessons and recommendations of the study will be useful for the ongoing and impending discussions linked to immigration reform in the U.S.

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Mexico Institute

The Mexico Institute seeks to improve understanding, communication, and cooperation between Mexico and the United States by promoting original research, encouraging public discussion, and proposing policy options for enhancing the bilateral relationship. A binational Advisory Board, chaired by Luis Téllez and Earl Anthony Wayne, oversees the work of the Mexico Institute.   Read more

Latin America Program

The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action.  Read more

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