ICON S Conference 17 – 19 June 2016 Humboldt University Berlin

FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 → UL6 Audimax
Commentator
Ayelet Shachar
Max Planck Institute for the
Study of Religious and Ethnic
Diversity Göttingen
Ayelet Shachar is Director at
the Max Planck Institute for the
Study of Religious and Ethnic
Diversity, where she heads the
Ethics, Law, and Politics Department. Previously, she
held the Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and
Multiculturalism Migration at and the University of Toronto Faculty
Law. Global Her research Development
focuses on citizenship theory, immigration
law, cultural diversity, and new regimes of
human mobility and inequality. Shachar is the author
Migration of Multicultural and development Jurisdictions: are Cultural inseparable. Differences As a country
grows, it Rights requires (Cambridge); movement The of people Birthright from Lottery: lagging
and
Women’s
Citizenship regions to growing and Global regions. Inequality Some (Harvard); of the movement and Olympic
Citizenship: national International borders. As Migration demographic and the and Global envi-
crosses
Race ronmental for Talent, changes to be published occur, the by pressures Oxford. In to 2014, migrate she
will was also elected increase a Fellow in the of coming the Royal years. Society It is of best Canada. to anticipate
joined and the prepare Max Planck for gradual Society migratory in 2015. flows than
She
to wait until unexpectedly large movements occur. In
this process of managing migration, it is important to
be aware of the benefits and risks associated with migration
for the migrants, their countries of origin, and
their host countries. Migrants benefit their countries of
origin via remittances, skill and technology transfers
and investments. They provide scarce skills and labor
supply in destination countries. They also pay taxes
( their net tax contribution is positive in most OECD
countries ) and contribute to social security in destination
countries, which is important for countries with
aging populations. Low-skilled workers often fall prey
to illegal recruitment practices that lead to exorbitant
recruitment costs, prolonged indebtedness and modern-day
slavery. More stringent monitoring of recruitment
agencies and practices can significantly lower recruitment
costs, benefiting migrants and their families.
In the host countries, integration of migrants may
be more effective through the work place and a reform
of the education system.
Reducing the costs of remittances, reducing the
costs of recruitment of low-skilled construction workers,
agricultural workers and domestic workers, improving
migrant rights would greatly enhance the global benefits
of migration. These policy messages are included
in the recently agreed Sustainable Development Goals.
Chair
Hélène Ruiz Fabri
Max Planck Institute
Luxembourg
for Procedural Law
Hélène Ruiz Fabri is Director of
the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg
for Procedural Law. Prior
to joining the Max Planck Society,
she was Professor Dilip of Public Ratha International Law and
later Dean of Sorbonne World Law School Bank (University of Paris
I – Panthéon-Sorbonne). She also served as President
Dilip of the Ratha European is credited Society to of be International the first to analyze Law between and formalize
and the global 2010. significance Her research of interests remittances. include Accord-
dis-
2006
pute ing to resolution the New York under Times, public “No law, one focusing has done notably more than on
Dilip procedural Ratha to law make of international migration and courts its potential and tribunals, rewards as
a well top-of-the-agenda as international economic concern in law. the Hélène world’s Ruiz development
is a member ministries.” of the In 2012, Executive he founded Committee KNOMAD, of the a Inter-
mul-
Fabri
tidisciplinary, national Society global of Public hub of Law knowledge ( ICON S on ). migration. He
is the focal point for the World Bank’s Migration Working
Group and the Diaspora Bond Task Force, and a Co-
Coordinator of the ( G20) Global Remittances Working
Group. He is the Chair of the Board and first CEO and
Founder of the Migrating out of Poverty Research Consortium.
He is also the brain behind the African Institute
for Remittances. He is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the
South Asia Institute, Harvard University and a member
of the World Economic Forum Council on migration.
Besides migration, he has done pioneering work on
innovative financing including diaspora bonds, futureflow
securitization, and shadow sovereign ratings.
Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked as a
regional economist for Asia at Credit Agricole Indosuez,
Singapore where he advised institutional investors in
Asian equity, fixed income and foreign exchange markets.
He has also worked as an Assistant Professor
of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management,
Ahmedabad, and as an Economist at the Policy Group,
New Delhi. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Indian
Statistical Institute, New Delhi where he worked as a
Visiting Lecturer and helped build a CGE model for the
Planning Commission of India.
Dilip Ratha hosts the PeopleMove blog. His TED
Talk, “The hidden force in global economics: sending
money home,” has over a million views.
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