Workshop 4: Migrant Workers and Pro Bono Assistance

Session 1: Building cross-border legal strategies for migrant workers’ access to justice

This workshop will unveil the Guide to Cross-Border Legal Issues for Migrant Workers (final title TBD). Continuing last year’s Mandalay conference workshop, which covered the Guide during its development, this session will introduce participants to the major cross-border legal issues that migrant workers face across targeted migration routes in the region, the potential legal remedies that have been identified, and the concrete next steps that stakeholders will need to take in order to begin making these remedies are accessible.

Workshop Goals:

This half day workshop will unveil the Guide to Cross-Border Legal Issues for Migrant Workers (final title TBD), an Open Society Foundation-funded effort to identify and analyze major cross-border legal issues faced by migrant workers across specific migration routes in the region. This workshop will pick up from where we left off at last year’s Mandalay conference workshop, which covered the Guide during its development. The session will introduce participants to the major cross-border legal issues identified by the authors of the Guide, the potential legal remedies, and the concrete next steps that stakeholders will need to take in order to begin making these remedies accessible. The second part of the workshop will involve participants in an examination of the steps involved in building a practical cross-border work product. It will focus on how the different perspectives of pro bono actors, whether they are NGOs, international law firms, law faculty, or researchers, can inform development of the materials. The workshop will focus on how participants can apply the lessons learned to their own fields.