The Migration for Employment Convention
The Migration for Employment Convention (Revised), 1949 (No.97), aims to regulate the conditions under which the migration of workers and their families takes place, and the Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions Convention, 1975 (No. 143) contains specific standards to counter illicit and clandestine labor trafficking which disturbs orderly migration and creates negative social and human consequences. States ratifying this convention undertake, for example, to investigate illegal migratory move ments on their territory that aim to facilitate substandard employment.
States have the primary responsibility to regulate migration. Regulating migration, though, is not the same as preventing migration. Regulating migra tion means making migration safe and regular, so that people can exercise their right to migrate if they need or wish to. In fact, people may seek to migrate to find work for a number of reasons:
