Abstract
The second Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) (http://www.gfmd2008.org) was held in Manila on October 27―30, 2008. Representatives of 163 governments discussed best practices to protect the rights of migrants, types of legal migration that enhance development, and methods to achieve greater coherence between migration and other socioeconomic policies, including aid, development, and trade policies. The United States government, which fears that the GFMD will become a venue for poorer migrant-sending countries to criticize the treatment of their nationals in richer migrant-receiving countries, did not participate. The GFMD is a government-led process outside the UN system. The host government sets the agenda in consultation with a steering group of 30 governments drawn from the larger Friends of the Forum. The first GFMD (http://www.gfmd-fmmd.org), which brought 160 governments to Brussels July 10―11, 2007, established a new approach to migration by squarely moving development to the center of the migration debate... [by] promoting legal migration as an opportunity for development of both origin and destination countries, rather than as a threat. (GFMD, 2007, Final Report, p16). The Manila GFMD focused on the rights of migrants, emphasizing that legal migration that respects migrant rights has more favorable development impacts than irregular migration. Greece will host the 2009 GFMD, followed by Argentina in 2010, Spain in 2011, and Morocco in 2012.
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