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The International Labour Organisation (ILO) notes that, of the world's 200 million international migrants, most are engaged in or directly benefit from economic activity, principally labour. Today, be it through policies that actively promote emigration, through insufficient legal frameworks for the protection of migrants and their families, the granting of fundamental rights only to migrants that are highly skilled or migration statuses that insist on the most temporary, cyclical or short term contracts and permits possible, the human person and his or her dignity are being reduced to a level of mere economic commodity. There is a distinct need to re-centre the migration process and related policies on a recognition of the dignity of the human person and his or her work.
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