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-International Labor and Migration Rules

Group members: [|Thyco], [|Erin], [|Ricky], [|Helena]

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We were given the broad, indecisive topic of International Labor and Migration Rules. To make a bigger impact towards this topic, we first decided to look at Migration in China, because it is a serious problem, causing over population in developed urban cities, and not enough development in rural cities. Next we chose a provence, An Hui which is one of the more undeveloped provinces in China. As China is a enormous  country, housing more then 1,330,044,544 people, we felt that we would have to start small yet think big, to make a difference in this topic. After careful consideration, we decided to focus on Women in Meng Cheng,An Hui,China that migrate to urban cities, as many women leave their children to go work in urbanized cities.

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In China, numerous families in rural cities are unable to support their children as there are very little job opportunities. In turn, these devoted parents journey to the urbanized cities like Shanghai, and Beijing, causing over population and perhaps even less jobs with poor pay. Chinese New year is one of the busiest times for the train station in GuangZhou, during the days before chinese new year, officials send an average of 4.54 million passengers out of GuangZhou. Most of these travelers are migrants, using most of their salary to get a standing ticket back to their homes, a trip that may only be taken once every couple of years. Today, over 100 million chinese people have migrated to urbanized cities, working at minimum wage to save up for their families back home. Most women we international students call "ayis" or maids have left their children in their home towns, so they can make money in cities like Shanghai and Beijing. This may strike you as a good thing, as these people are striving for a better life, but migrating to urbanized cities can become a big dilemma. The costs of migrating range from simply over population to increased environmental degradation and pollution. As the populations of urbanized cities rise, so do the need of resources like water and electricity. Also, the more chinese agriculture workers leave for a better job in the city, the scarcer food becomes. You may think that you are not harmed by these migrant workers, that they are just living in the same city as you. The truth is, the more migrant workers are near you, the less you can get access to resources. Today, we, Thyco, Ricky Helena, and Erin are motivated to help these chinese people, so that we can give them the lives they want for themselves and their children. Our mission is to create job opportunities in the city of Meng Cheng, and to support the migrants that need a push in life. We want to dive into the world of hard working migrants, and to unlearn our "perfect" look on the world, to see what is truly is, and how we, the privileged can help and give back to those in need.

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**Organization 1 Case Study**

__International Organization for Migration (IOM)__

IOM is a very big orginization with many recruited men and women to help keep up thing intergovernmental organization. This organization is helping to fight for the reduction of migration all over the world, and also including asia. This organization was founded in 1951 to help fight the losing battle against migration causing overpopulation in thriving cities.

The IOM took a four step procedure to help reduce migration in China. The steps that were taken were: "first, to recognize the trend toward the feminization of migration; second, to improve awareness and understanding of the conditions and needs specific to migrant women; third, to promote equal access to projects and services so that migrant women might fully participate in and benefit from them; and fourth, to design and implement, where appropriate, programmes designed specifically for migrant women" (Paiva)

Some things i like a lot about this action plan is that they are raising awareness on what the consequences are and then they act to help counter act them. Something that does trouble me is if they only rely on the public on joining their programs and act wisely upon the knowledge given, than just acting b themselves pushing it more to success. We could model this organizations actions by teaching what the consequences are of migrating and then create a program helping the migrants get a decent job in their hometown.

Resource #1: Title/Name of resource: International Organization for Migration (IOM) Author(s) name (last, first): William Lacy Swing is director though Title of article: History URL: http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/about-iom/organizational-structure/director-general

Resource #2: Title/Name of resource: International Organization for Migration (IOM) Author(s) name (last, first): William Lacy Swing is director though Title of article: Migration Management Foundations URL: http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/about-iom/organizational-structure/director-general

Resource #3: Title/Name of resource: DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST century Author(s) name (last, first): MR. ROBERT G. PAIVA Title of article: WOMEN 2000: GENDER EQUALITY,

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__ILO- International Labor Organization__
 * Organization2**
 * Case Study**

What is the organization? The ILO is an organization that makes international labor standards and set minimum standards of basic labor rights such as freedom of association, the right to organize, abolition of forced labor, equality of opportunity and treatment, and other related issues. The ILO is dedicated to advancing opportunities for women and men to gain decent and productive work in conditions of a free, equal, and secure environment. Its main goals are to make rights at work, endorse employment opportunities, and strengthen social protection.

What exactly are they doing to try and combat or change your issue? In supporting social justice and internationally recognized human and labor rights, the ILO continues to pursue its founding mission that labor peace is essential to prosperity. Today, the ILO helps advance the creation of decent jobs and the kinds of economic and working conditions that give working people and business people a stake in lasting peace, prosperity and progress.

What are some of the things that you like about their program? Some of the things we liked about this organization is that they are very organized and try their best help their topic. Another reason that we like their program is that they are willing to go above and beyond to try and solve or temporaly halt this topic. One last thing that we like about their organization is that they are helping cause that is major and to some countries they actually encourage it.

What are some questions you have about it? I know that they meet every year to discuss the matters, but how do they communicate during the year? What else can they do to further more to meet more often to get updated on the topics?

How could you become involved with this organization or model you action plan after it? The ILO has many projects. We can model our organization based on the their projects. We can also try and get involved with one of their ongoing projects. Back to Top

1. What is the specific topic your group decided to focus on?


 * We chose to focus on the migrating women in Meng Cheng,An Hui,China that migrate to cities such as Beijing or Shanghai to work for less money than deserved. We feel that this is a good topic to focus on because by leaving their home town to work in Beijing or Shanghai, these women are leaving behind their children, who need their mothers to nurture them. Also, today more and more women in Meng Cheng are migrating to urban cities. Researchers say that there are almost more migrant women then there are men. Women deserve the chance to be able to watch their children grow up, to look after them, to teach them, Which is why we chose to focus on the migrating women in Meng Cheng, An Hui, China. ****

2. Which organization did you choose to focus on and why? ****

We decided to focus on the organization organization ILO- International Labor Organization because the ILO is a big organization that focuses on labor rights all around the world. They also promote building up rural cities rather then encouraging people to migrate to the business centers of that country. ** 3. What exactly are they doing to try and combat or change your issue? ****

To combat or change this issue, ILO is promoting more decent work for people in need, building better factories to promote jobs, and have started a Training for Rural Economic Empowerment(TREE). TREE is a program that focuses on identifying potential and emerging employment, businesses, and income generators, and deliver training for people to sustain these opportunities. By doing so what ILO hopes is that people in rural living conditions may find the motivation and have the experience to successfully improve their lives through learning how to run businesses of their own. ****

4.  What are some of the things you like about their program? Some things we like about ILO is that: -They are not just giving jobs to people but training them to understand how to sustain these jobs and the businesses they support -They understand that migration is a positive thing yet should be controlled for a more well rounded economy ****

5.  How do you plan to become involved with this organization or model your action plan after it? ** Back to Top

Resource #1 [|http://www.ilo.org/global/ About_the_ILO/lang--en/index. htm] Resource #2 URL:http://www.ilo.org/asia/whatwedo/projects/lang--en/facet--TYP-_-Project-_-GEO-_-CHN%2C-_-2627/index.htm

__**Statistics**__


 * 70 mil left their towns to short or long term jobs in country towns or bigger urbamn areas
 * 1.2 billion population, there are more than 71.42 per cent who are living in rural areas (which is hard to find good paying jobs)
 * more than 32,000,000 rural people who come out of their provinces to gain off-farm jobs in urban areas including big cities
 * the number of rural labourers who got into TVEs from farming increased from 29.99 million in 1980 to 92.65 million in 1995

Resource #1: Author(s) name (last, first): not available Title of article: ISSUES PAPER FROM THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA URL: http://www.unesco.org/most/apmrnw10.htm
 * Title/Name of resource: Asia Pacific Migration Research Network (APMRN)

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