Disability Migration Network (DMN)
Towards disability-responsive migration
🌏✈ At the 18th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML), the Disability Migration Network (DMN) is calling for a migration system that truly includes migrant workers with disabilities and migrants with acquired disabilities.
From fair recruitment to reintegration, disability-responsiveness must be at the heart of safe migration and decent work. It’s not charity—it’s justice.
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By Ben Thatcher For too long, migration policies have ignored a crucial reality! That migrants with disabilities exist, and they matter. The global migration system is built on frameworks that rarely consider accessibility, inclusion, or the unique challenges faced by persons with disabilities throughout the migration journey. But change is on the horizon. The GlobalContinue reading “New possibilities for disability-responsive migration”
By Ma. Vhiktoria “Chavek” Siva After a tussle with Manila traffic, a three and a half hour flight to Bangkok, a four hour layover at the Don Mueang International Airport, and two planes, the three-man and one-woman Disability Migration Network (DMN) research team finally landed in Chiang Mai. The numerous emails and zoom calls finallyContinue reading “Lanterns, Night Markets, Stories of Disabilities (in Thailand)”
The ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML) is an open platform for the review, discussion and exchange of good practices and ideas between governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations, and civil society on key issues facing migrant workers in Southeast Asia. Each year the Forum develops recommendations to advance the implementation of the principles of theContinue reading “The DMN’s Statement on the Care Economy for the 17th ‘ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML)’ 2024”
Disability Migration Network (DMN)