But in a paper circulated this summer, the government said it feared the meeting would focus too much on migrant's rights and the obligations of countries who receive them, without looking at the responsibility of the countries they're coming from.
Other things being equal, immigrants are more likely to vote Labour than the population as a whole, yet the rise in London's migrant population did not stop the Tories' Boris Johnson from taking the mayoralty from Labour's Ken Livingstone in 2008 and holding on to it earlier this year.
Critics say the problems could be due to the pressures many of China's migrant workers face.
Earlier Indonesia's cabinet met to discuss the need for greater protection of the country's migrant workers in the Middle East.
But the second generation of China's migrant workers is a different breed.
The Human Resources and Social Security Department of Guangdong estimated that 10 million workers, or 61% of the province's migrant-labor pool, would head home to see their families for the New Year Holiday, with a return rate of around 90%, leaving a labor shortfall of up to 1.2 million workers after the holiday.
Arranging care for drug-resistant patients is complicated, said Ed Zuroweste, the Migrant Clinicians Network's chief medical officer.
Retention has historically been a problem for many manufacturers in China, which rely on the country's vast migrant labor pool.
Burma's highly mobile migrant population may already be spreading the drug-resistant strain around the world.
One of the greatest issues for China's 250 million migrant workers is the "hukou" system of household registration.
To build roads and harvest fields, Bhutan imports up to 100, 000 migrant workers from India's poorest northern states.
Dr Jane Jones, head of the HPA's travel and migrant health section, said there was no drug treatment for dengue fever.
Every year, millions of China's 250 million migrant workers leave their factories and travel across the country to visit their families at home.
Around 13, 500 of these were from beyond the EEA. Around 10, 000 were on the UK's highly skilled migrant programme, and many of the others were paying to attend medical school here.
The story of migration since then is the story of modern China, as migrant workers have transformed China's economy.
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In the same year she starred in the anti-apartheid drama-documentary Come back, Africa, about the lives of migrant workers living in Johannesburg's townships.
Legality would enhance the contribution of migrant workers to the U.S. economy and provide for their paying their fair share to the tax and Social Security systems.
It's transportation systems have drawn migrant workers from almost everywhere, and they brought their music along.
This is not some housing complex for Beijing's hundreds of thousands of migrant workers.
"We got only two small glasses of water a day, " a recently released Bangladeshi inmate in one of Malaysia's nine camps for arrested migrant workers told Asiaweek.
It's already Europe's most densely populated country and migrant arrivals are equivalent to half the annual birth rate.
Caroline Slocock, chief executive of Refugee and Migrant Justice, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the money could be better used.
Turning to a positive news on the web, police and netizens have come to the rescue of a migrant worker in Shanghai after the family's hard-earned savings blew out of his pocket while he was riding a motorbike and were looted by unknown people.
"It seems spurious that a fresh master's graduate in their first job should qualify as a highly-skilled migrant where a businessperson of 25 years global experience earning hundreds of thousands of pounds without a master's degree does not, " said its chairman Keith Vaz.
Most politicians in Lincolnshire believe that migrant workers have had a positive effect on the county's economy.
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It said the government's skills policy would need to focus on training migrant workers, the long-term unemployed and school leavers.
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Now Thailand's authorities accept that they are stuck with the migrant problem, admits Dusit Manapan, a senior official in the Thai foreign ministry.
Life in Beijing is much better than back in rural Hebei, says Li: his wages cover the family's rent, tuition for the underground school for migrant children that his kids attend, as well as the odd night of karaoke.
Coverage of the travel rush nears a peak with reports on rail and road traffic, while the People's Daily also reports that hundreds of thousands of migrant workers in southern Guangdong province set off home on motor bikes.
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