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• Evidence Base - Research

THP believes that businesses must contribute to humane and effective migration management and help ensure the social inclusion and participation of migrants and refugees by incorporating them in their regular workforce.

The business community both impacts upon, and is affected by, migration - it touches on many of business’s core practices as well as their responsibilities as corporate citizens.

With good international cooperation, managed migration offers great potential for the business sector. The vast majority of mobile workers move for a better job and businesses can gain significant competitive advantage from the movement of talent. This mobility allows organizations to tap into the global talent pool and address skills shortages as competition for talent increases.

For sending countries, the picture is more complex. On the one hand, some lose out through ‘brain drain’, on the other hand they may benefit from remittances that contribute to economic and social development. Furthermore, the movement of workers is not the one-way journey it used to be - lowering barriers to mobility can lead to less permanent migration in the long-term as well as to valuable skills transfer when workers return to their country of origin.