Further strengthen the movement to counter the GFMD!
Continue to resist commodification of labor and modern-day slavery!
International Migrants Alliance (IMA)
01 December 2011
Since its inception up to its current fifth run, the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) has never professed genuine concern for migrant workers and their families.
In fact, it has only been faithful to its neoliberal design of using migration as a tool to perpetuate the domination of the world’s superpowers – chiefly the United States – and sustain the unjust world order through the continued commodification of migrant labor and the modern-day slavery of migrant workers.
This year’s theme, “Taking Action on Migration and Development – Coherence, Capacity and Cooperation”, is about as vague as it is grandiose.
The Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) in its 5th year stands at the crossroads of its existence as a “platform for dialogue and cooperation on international migration and development”. It must bridge the gap between its self-perception and what the most important stakeholders in the process – the migrant workers – see it to be. It must also respond to the fundamental question of its relevance to the whole migration dynamic.
