GHRF 2008: The Regularization of Immigration Agents and its Contribution to the Global HR Management

The role of Migration Agents is becoming more significant as international migration globally increases in scale and its types are diversified. As the governments recognize their administrative limitation in dealing with the surging immigration and its consequences, they seem to encourage the migration agents to play bigger roles. The governments expect the migration agents not only to assist immigrants with advice and their immigration applications but to take up their counterparts' roles in the transnational management of the labor, the capital and the technology. In some sense, the migration industry is creating the immigration itself by encouraging migration as well as servicing the process. The lucrative profits from the immigration services and the ramifying opportunities for the variety of transnational business within the immigration industry attract legal and illegal service providers. So, unless regulated and controlled, the immigration service field could harbor international crime networks. As a result, countries like Australia, NZ, Canada, and the UK have legislated the relevant laws and are regulating the immigration agents in an effort to manage immigration for their national interest. In this session, the heads of the Regulating bodies for the Migration agents from Australia, Canada, and the UK will share their experience and achievements.

Moderator
* Hwa-Seo Park, Professor, Migration Studies Myongji University
Presenter
* Arnold Conyer, Chairman, MARA Australia
* Suzanne McCarthy, Chancellor, OISC
* John Ryan, Chairman, Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants (CSIC)
Discussant
* Kyu-Ho Choo
Commissioner of Korea Immigration Service, Ministry of Justice

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