Making Migration Work - Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het ...

64making migration workbut also that employers have sensible access to foreign recruitment for labourneeds which cannot be met domestically. But governments may not get itexactly right the first time and adjustments will in any event have to be made asconditions change. Managing international migration is a complex undertakingand experience has shown that loopholes in existing regulations will be quicklyexploited. More and more governments are building in administrative flexibilityin migration systems, to allow for changes in response to rapidly evolvingdevelopments, without having to carry out time-consuming and politically difficultlegislative reforms. The extent of labour migration to be allowed is in theend a labour market issue and treating it as such may well be the best responseto addressing the political controversy to which migration in general gives rise.