The EC-UN Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI) is seeking submissions from inspirational and innovative civil society-led* migration and development initiatives globally.  Successful initiatives will be showcased as part of the Migration and Development Virtual Fair 2009 and a representative from the most compelling initiative will be invited to participate in Athens. The Virtual Fair will be held in parallel with the GFMD Civil Society Days (2-3 November 2009) and will be the first M&D event of its kind – it will bring together 1000s of ‘virtual’ visitors to network, visit virtual exhibitions and post questions online to key participants in Athens.

El martes 22 de septiembre, el Servicio Jesuita a Refugiados y Migrantes (SJRM) y el Observatorio Migrantes del Caribe (OBMICA) tienen el placer de invitarle al panel:

"Avanzando hacia la Regularización de Migrantes no Autorizados en RD"

From 7 – 18 September 2009 UN-INSTRAW will be hosting the virtual discussion “Global Care Chains: Assessing the Situation and Policy Challenges.”
 
Global care chains in the world result from two crises: the care crisis in migration destination countries, where an increasing demand for care labour exceeds the supply; and the crisis of social reproduction in countries of origin, which causes households to be unable to secure social reproduction and to seek new survival strategies. In response to these crises, more and more women are migrating autonomously.

Participate!
To participate in the discussion you must be a member of the Gender and Migration Virtual Community. To register, please click here. To contribute, simply log in to the website between September 7 and 18, 2009 and post your comments in the forum. More information about using the forum can be found here. 

A discussion on the formation of global care chains provides an excellent position from which to examine the relationship between care work, migration, gender and development. The virtual discussion will consider how care work and migration intersect, the new transnational dimensions of the sexual division of labour, as well as policy challenges.  

The discussion will begin by looking at how the care system currently in place is invisible. Today there is little public debate on how to organize care and it forms no part of public policy. The participants will also consider why care is usually seen as the responsibility of women in the household and not a responsibility of society. The ability to give and receive appropriate care is a determining factor of inequality and social exclusion; the line between decent and poor quality care distinguishes privileged from underprivileged social groups.

The discussion will be based on two of UN-INSTRAW’s working papers from the series “Global Perspectives on the Social Organization of Care in the Care Crisis.”

Boletín de Prensa

III Jornada Hemisférica sobre Políticas Migratorias

Del 17 al 19 de septiembre, en FLACSO, se desarrollará la III Jornada Hemisférica sobre Políticas Migratorias, evento de la sociedad civil que se realiza previo a la IX Conferencia Sudamericana sobre Migraciones que se llevará a cabo en Quito el 21 y 22 de septiembre.

La Jornada busca una amplia participación de instituciones, organizaciones y redes especializadas en migración y derechos humanos, a nivel nacional, regional y continental, con el fin de originar un proceso de diálogo que contribuya al fortalecimiento de la sociedad civil involucrada en las dinámicas migratorias, para definir problemáticas, delinear acuerdos y contribuir al debate desde distintas perspectivas a partir de las cuales han sido abordadas así como suscitar un proceso de inter‐redes para diseñar una agenda hemisférica sobre migraciones, desplazamiento interno y refugio, con enfoque de derechos.