Circular temporary labour migration: reassessing established public policies
Circular temporary labour migration: reassessing established public policies
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- Zapata-Barrero R, Faúndez R, Sánchez-Montijano E. Circular temporary labour migration: reassessing established public policies. Int J Popul Res. 2012 Sep 16;2012:498158. DOI: 10.1155/2012/498158
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Circular Temporary Labour Migration (CTLM) is being promoted as an innovative and viable way of regulating the flow of labour migrants. Based on a specific empirical case study, we identify an unexpected outcome of CTLM programmes: the emergence of a new empirical migrant category, the circular labour migrant, which is as yet theoretically unnamed and lacks recognition by public institutions. We argue that, to date, there have been two historical phases of circular labour migration: one with total deregulation and another with partial regulation, involving private actors supported by public institutions. In a developed welfare state context, it would be normatively pertinent to expect a step towards a third phase, involving the institutionalization of this new trend in mobility by the formulation of a public policy. Current legal, political, social, and economic frameworks have to be reassessed in order to recognise the category of the circular labour migrant.