The Hague Process on Refugees and Migration foundation (THP) would like to contribute the following document to the discussion:

A Compilation of Reflections on the 2008 GFMD Roundtabel Themes (Section II of the THP Input to the 2nd GFMD)

http://www.thehagueprocess.org/Upload/PDF/THP%20Input%20to%20GFMD%202008%20Section%20II.pdf

This compilation brings together the ideas and expertise of prominent individuals from different regions of the world and from diverse professional backgrounds. They engage in dialogue and offer their vision, research findings, practical experience and policy recommendations to the participants of the 2008 GFMD.

The document can also be found under 'Document Library - Other References' on http://government.gfmd2008.org

There should be recognition that there are limits to the legal channels of migration. Existence of involuntary migration and migration for economic reasons should be recognized. Governments of origin and destination countries need to work together to develop immigration policies to encourage legal channels of migration and better protection for migrants. The mobility of these workers across and within borders should also be looked into.

Destination countries should recognize their demand for labor. This would provide opportunities for migrants, better working conditions and better protection for them.

The Importance of Being Honest
In the busy city of New York, such an astonishing thing that ever happened.
On a Friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. Though the music was great, people were quickly going home for the weekend. In this case, many of them slowed down their paces and put some money into the hat of the young man. (wow gold)
The next day, the young artist came to the gate of the subway station, and put his hat on the ground gracefully. Different than the day before, he took out a large piece of paper and laid it on the ground and
put some stones on it. Then he adjusted the violin and began playing. It seemed more pleasant to listen to.
Before long, the young violinist was surrounded with people, who were all attracted by the words on that paper. It said¡°Last night, a gentleman named George Sang put an important thing into my hat by mistaken. Please come to claim it soon.¡±
Seeing this, it caused a great excitement and people wondered what it could be. After about half an hour, a middle-aged man ran there in a hurry and rushed through the crowd to the violinist and grabbed his shoulders and said, ¡°Yes, it¡¯s you.
You did come here. I knew that you¡¯re an honest man and would certainly come here.¡±
The young violinist asked calmly, ¡°Are you Mr. George Sang?¡±
The man nodded. The violinist asked, ¡°Did you lose something?¡±
¡°Lottery. It¡¯s lottery,¡± said the man. (wow power leveling,)
The violinist took out a lottery ticket on which George Sang¡¯s name was seen. ¡°Is it?¡± he asked.
George nodded promptly and seized the lottery ticket and kissed it, then he danced with the violinist.The story turned out to be this: George Sang is an office clerk. He bought a lottery ticket issued by a bank a few days ago. The awards opened yesterday and he won a prize of $500,000. So he felt very happy after work and felt the music was so wonderful, that he took out 50 dollars and put in the hat. However the lottery ticket was also thrown in. The violinist was a student at an Arts College and had planned to attend advanced studies in Vienna. He had booked the ticket and would fly that morning. However when he was cleaning up he found the lottery ticket. Thinking that the owner would return to look for it, he cancelled the flight and came back to where he was given the lottery ticket.Later someone asked the violinist: ¡°At that time you were in needed to pay the tuition fee and you had to play the violin in the subway station every day to make the money. Then why didn¡¯t you take the lottery ticket for yourself?¡±The violinist said, ¡°Although I don¡¯t have much money, I live happily; but if I lose honesty I won¡¯t be happy forever.¡± ( world of warcraft power leveling,)
Through our lives, we can gain a lot and lose so much. But being honest should always be with us. If we bear ourselves in a deceptive and dishonest way, we may succeed temporarily. However, from the long-term
view, we will be a loser. Such kind of people are just like the water on the mountain. It stands high above the masses at the beginning, but gradually it comes down inch by inch and loses the chance of going up.

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Time is running out for my friend. While we are sitting at lunch she casually mentions she and her husband are thinking of starting a family. "We're taking a survey,"she says, half-joking. "Do you think I should have a baby?"

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But that's not what I mean at all. I look at my friend, trying to decide what to tell her. I want her to know what she will never learn in childbirth classes. I want to tell her that the physical wounds of child bearing will heal, but becoming a mother will leave her with an emotional wound so raw that she will be vulnerable forever.

I consider warning her that she will never again read a newspaper without thinking: "What if that had been MY child?" That every plane crash, every house fire will haunt her. That when she sees pictures of starving children, she will wonder if anything could be worse than watching your child die. I look at her carefully manicured nails and stylish suit and think that no matter how sophisticated she is,wow power leveling becoming a mother will reduce her to the primitive level of a bear protecting her cub.

I feel I should warn her that no matter how many years she has invested in her career, she will be professionally derailed by motherhood. She might arrange for child care,,but one day she will be going into an important business meeting, and she will think her baby's sweet smell. She will have to use every ounce of discipline to keep from running home, just to make sure her child is all right.

I want my friend to know that every decision will no longer be routine. That a five-year-old boy's desire to go to the men's room rather than the women's at a restaurant will become a major dilemma. The issues of independence and gender identity will be weighed against the prospect that a child molester may be lurking in the lavatory. However decisive she may be at the office, she will second-guess herself constantly as a mother.

Looking at my attractive friend, I want to assure her that eventually she will shed the added weight of pregnancy, but she will never feel the same about herself. That her own life, now so important, will be of less value to her once she has a child. She would give it up in a moment to save her offspring, but will also begin to hope for more years¡ªnot to accomplish her own dreams¡ªbut to watch her children accomplish theirs.

I want to describe to my friend the exhilaration of seeing your child learn to hit a ball. I want to capture for her the belly laugh of a baby who is touching the soft fur of a dog for the first time. I want her to taste the joy that is so real it hurts.

My friend's look makes me realize that tears have formed in my eyes. "You'll never regret it," I say finally. Then, squeezing my friend's hand, wow gold,I offer a prayer for her and me and all of the mere mortal women who stumble their way into this holiest of callings.

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Can it really be sixty-two years ago that I first saw you?

It is truly a lifetime, I know. But as I gaze into your eyes now, it seems like only yesterday that I first saw you, in that small caf¨¦ in Hanover Square. (power leveling)

From the moment I saw you smile, as you opened the door for that young mother and her newborn baby. I knew. I knew that I wanted to share the rest of my life with you.

I still think of how foolish I must have looked, as I gazed at you, that first time. I remember watching you intently, as you took off your hat and loosely shook your short dark hair with your fingers. I felt myself becoming 1)immersed in your every detail, as you placed your hat on the table and cupped your hands around the hot cup of tea, gently blowing the steam away with your 2)pouted lips.

From that moment, everything seemed to make perfect sense to me. The people in the caf¨¦ and the busy street outside all disappeared into a 3)hazy 4)blur. All I could see was you.

All through my life I have relived that very first day. Many, many times I have sat and thought about that the first day, and how for a few 5)fleeting moments I am there, feeling again what is like to know true love for the very first time. It pleases me that I can still have those feelings now after all those years, and I know I will always have them to comfort me.

Not even as I shook and trembled uncontrollably in the 6)trenches, did I forget your face. I would sit huddled into the wet mud, terrified, as the hails of bullets and mortars crashed down around me. I would 7)clutch my rifle tightly to my heart, and think again of that very first day we met. I would cry out in fear, as the noise of war beat down around me. But, as I thought of you and saw you smiling back at me, everything around me would be become silent, and I would be with you again for a few precious moments, far from the death and destruction. It would not be until I opened my eyes once again, that I would see and hear the 8)carnage of the war around me.

I cannot tell you how strong my love for you was back then, when I returned to you on leave in the September, feeling 9)battered, bruised and fragile. We held each other so tight I thought we would burst. I asked you to marry me the very same day and I 10)whooped with joy when you looked deep into my eyes and said "yes" to being my bride.(wow power level)

I`m looking at our wedding photo now, the one on our dressing table, next to your jewellery box. I think of how young and innocent we were back then. I remember being on the church steps grinning like a 11)Cheshire cat, when you said how dashing and handsome I looked in my uniform. The photo is old and faded now, but when I look at it, I only see the bright vibrant colors of our youth. I can still remember every detail of the pretty wedding dress your mother made for you, with its fine delicate lace and pretty pearls. If I concentrate hard enough, I can smell the sweetness of your wedding bouquet as you held it so proudly for everyone to see.

I remember being so over enjoyed, when a year later, you gently held my hand to your waist and whispered in my ear that we were going to be a family.

I know both our children love you dearly; they are outside the door now, waiting.

Do you remember how I panicked like a mad man when Jonathon was born? I can still picture you laughing and smiling at me now, as I 12)clumsily held him for the very first time in my arms. I watched as your laughter faded into tears, as I stared at him and cried my own tears of joy.

Sarah and Tom arrived this morning with little Tessie. Can you remember how we both hugged each other tightly when we saw our tiny granddaughter for the first time? I can`t believe she will be eight next month. I am trying not to cry, my love, as I tell you how beautiful she looks today in her pretty dress and red shiny shoes, she reminds me so much of you that first day we met. She has her hair cut short now, just like yours was all those years ago. When I met her at the door her smile wrapped around me like a warm glove, just like yours used to do, my darling.world of warcraft power leveling

I know you are tired, my dear, and I must let you go. But I love you so much it hurts to do so.

As we grew old together, I would tease you that you had not changed since we first met. But it is true, my darling. I do not see the wrinkles and grey hair that other people see. When I look at you now, I only see your sweet tender lips and youthful sparkling eyes as we sat and had out first picnic next to that small stream, and chased each other around that big old oak tree. I remember wishing those first few days together would last forever. Do you remember how exciting and wonderful those days were?

I must go now, my darling. Our children are waiting outside. They want to say goodbye to you.

I wipe the tears away from my eyes and bend my frail old legs down to the floor, so that I can kneel beside you. I lean close to you and take hold of your hand and kiss your tender lips for the very last time.

The 60th anniversary of the founding of the changes in 60 years, can be described as one stroke! 60 years of personal experience has taught me to touch the pulse of social progress, 60 years of reform and opening up every one to benefit people's lives.
In December 1978, the party's victory in the Third Plenum was held open the new historical period of reform and opening up, this is our party since the founding of far-reaching significance in the history of a great turning point.
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The national economy in three decades, rapid development of our living and working conditions are also the three decades is undergoing tremendous change, basic necessities and living environment, working conditions, which are the same as earth-shaking.
Listen to his mother, said the planned economy era during the credentials supplied by a year at most be able to purchase the two new clothes, or general plain cloth. "New Year wearing new clothes," the anticipation is that period of their peers who have had the desire it, in the absence of the New Year if we can put on new clothes, so that when the neighbors envious of the kind of satisfaction and pride so that today's young people can not be understanding, not to say that the little angels who each have at least several sets of styles and textures are very good and the clothing of the four seasons. replica rolex,

Food supply is her mother memorable tickets buy meat is natural, but definitely not pick the election fat thin in envy, not to speak rafts crowded open-air long queues, and to worry about their turn will come, when there are No goods can be bought. Because the queues to purchase food which caused people to noise and might even be pulling it to the kids terrified mother, a teenager fear most is to allow parents to cry forward to going to line up to accept this task, often fooling with that "would rather not eat meat is also do not line up. " The sixties and seventies material poverty-stricken and a brown sugar or fermented tofu, and even added a point of red pepper powder salt was once a snack to share, but at the time relative to that do not relish eating worse than now-date listing of foods children eat when excited the degree of numbness after being pepper is also no less than the invigorating hot-pot is now after the Earned dripping.
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Thirty years ago, many families have only one of the houses, almost the same layout is to use a bed or a large closet on the houses in the middle, up the curtain the house was divided into two, front living room and dining room, Mom said that they play only in bed, when seated, conditions can be better prepared for the 12 small Mazari or small wooden bench; children and more families have to design into the lower berth, while the back is a bed in another bedroom and storage room in a unified . At present, conditions are good, most people lived on the flat points Sanshiyiting, have their own independent kingdom, excitement, self-evident.
Not to mention how the current conditions of office automation, advanced a single one did not know that drinking water for how many kinds of water heaters, while in the late 50s last century, water can only be served in the morning, the boiler room to lay in order to ensure full day needs. Now, sitting next to do the work, asking for is a plus pure water drinking fountains, hot and cold since the pour, good uncomfortable. replica rolex,

There are communication tools changes, eighties was hand-cranked telephone, each time when you need to contact your headache, not to mention first post office connected to the operator, and then transferred to a place or a particular unit, if the the other is the signal is not very good, very marked with several phone calls a day and sometimes even have to be connected. The nineties, the pioneer of reform and opening up, waist across the BB machines, the paging call signal at any time, often issuing calls, but also deliberately pretending to hear, let it ring for several more ......, holders of more than The share of pride, self-evident. By the millennium year, cellular phones became a status symbol, the holder should not only out of proportion with their height voice shouting,replica rolex, must also mixed with the local language at the same time, it felt significant in front of Santa. Into the twenty-first century, the hands of every individual has more than one mobile phone, wherever close proximity with each other, work efficiency and economic benefits of double harvest.
Sixty of these changes between the lot so that I lament that, while he had only tens of thousands of people experiencing life in a small microcosm. China's three decades of reform and opening up the Western capitalist countries has completed several hundred years of history, the great achievements not come easily. We live in such a beautiful golden age of happiness and stability and harmony of such a situation also requires us to treasure the and maintenance, through our efforts and struggle of the motherland will become increasingly strong, the people's lives will be getting better and better
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