BSR
Report
2008
General
Global
Human Rights, Labour
To address an essential dimension of globalization that has received too little attention: the migration of workers between emerging economies. BSR seeks to increase business awareness about labor migration in international supply chains, and to recommend practical steps that businesses can take to improve working conditions for migrant workers and strengthen the suppliers that employ them.
Migration Linkages is an initiative to help protect the rights of migrant workers who are moving between developing countries. This can be achieved by connecting multinational companies and suppliers with civil society, international organizations, labor unions, and governments to build transparency around the global migration system and advance responsible business practices.
Specifically, this initiative seeks to: increase private sector awareness of the dimensions and impacts of South-South labor migration; provide actionable advice for companies on how to integrate greater protections for migrant workers in their supply chain, and encourage business to support the development of collaborative solutions to protect international labor migrants through engagement with key stakeholders and participation in international labor migration dialogues, such as the Global Forum on Migration and Development this fall in Manila.