E-Learning on Extending Social Protection to Migrant Workers, Refugees and their Families
Patrick Vishal Pillay
This course focused on the different unilateral, bilateral and regional measures that exist to extend social protection to both migrant workers and refugees and their families, in their countries of destination and origin.
OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of the course, participants have:
Understood the issues and opportunities related to the extension of social protection to migrant workers, refugees and their families.
Appreciated the international legal framework covering migrant workers and refugees.
Analysed the different measures existing to extend social protection to migrant workers and refugees (including multilateral, bilateral agreements and unilateral measures in both countries of origin and destination).
Examined the specific challenges faced by certain groups in order to access social protection (such as domestic workers, temporary migrant workers, irregular migrants, refugees).
Explored and analysed how to extend social protection to migrants and refugees based on country experiences/ good practices and lessons learned from various other countries.
CONTENT
Rationale for extending social protection to migrant workers and their families
Migrant workers’ right to social security and the international legal framework
Accessing social security through bilateral and multilateral social security agreements
Social protection in the negotiation of bilateral labour agreements (BLA) and Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
Unilateral measures extending social protection to migrant workers and refugees (in countries of origin and destination)
Extending social protection to specific groups of migrant workers
Extending social protection to refugees and asylum seekers
Gender, social protection and labour migration
Financing social protection for migrant workers and refugees
ACHIEVEMENT
Group work: analysis of a model of intervention by categories of migrants
Final assignment
NUMBER OF HOURS: 60
Skills / Knowledge
- governance of labour migration
- protection of migrant workers
- extension of social protection