Migrant Workers

“Migrant workers” is a topic that has had different meanings around the world, but most of the definitions agree that is he person that moves to another country looking for job opportunities. There is the United nations definition that settle that “The term "migrant worker" refers to a person who is engaged or has been engaged in a remunerated activity in a State of which he or she is not a national”, it means that everybody working outside the national country could be consider as migrant worker. (According to the United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families)

According to the United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, there are some rules settled in the mentioned convention that protects the migrant workers rights; some of the most important issues mentioned in the convention are the topics related with the exploitation of the workers, the protection for them and their families, the expulsion of the host country and some other that are important to take into account if planning a migrant worker opportunity.

Migrant workers are highly important for the economies even for the home country and the host country, it doesn’t mean in a positive way in all the cases, most of the migrant workers left their countries looking for opportunities and it included qualified and non qualified labor force, in the case of the non qualified labor force, it could constitute a problem for the host country because of the breakdown of the prices and the impact it has in the domestic economy, and in the other hand we have the qualified labor force that could also be a problem because it takes the jobs of the nationals and create unemployment, they also send in most of the cases the money they earn to the national country and it could be a problem for the local economy that have to control very well the policies in this area.

Bibliography:

1. the United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

2. Slides presented in class by: Carolina Ramirez, and Sebastian Ramirez

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migrant_worker

taken from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV1QifYVu14

Answer

The Points System in Canada, is a method applied by the Canadian government in which they qualify the possible immigrants in a test of pointing, it consist in solving a number of questions that gives you a score and according to the score you can apply or not for having the permission to go and work in Canada.

The test is made for evaluating how skilled are you and how convenient could you be for the Canadian economy, the questions you could find in the test are related to 8 topics that are:

1. Education

2. English and French language ability

3. Work experience

4. Age

5. Arranged employment

6. Adaptability

7. Proof of founds

8. Other requirements

(Taken from www.workpermit.com)

This protectionist measures are just normal in an economy, it is a matter of the governments to protect the national economy and one of the most important issues are the workers, for these reason I don’t consider the points system as a way of discrimination, it is a duty of a government to protect the sovereignty and migrants could be accepted or not according to the actual world organization.

It is clear that the measures taken by the Canadian Government could affect a lot of immigrants that are not as qualified a the government ask for getting the permission, but it is also clear that a government have to protect the nationals and if the Canadian Government consider that some unqualified workers are a potential problem, they can and have the obligation to take all the measures they need in order to prevent a possible damage to the economical system.

Bibliography:

1. The Past and Future of Immigration to Canada. David Verbeeten

http://www.workpermit.com/canada/points_calculator.htm