AGAC Issue Focus is a biannual periodical that aims to address ageing and human rights issues in a timely fashion. The publication introduces relevant ASEM partner policies and responses to a wider audience in order to promote information-sharing and awareness-raising and ultimately enhance ASEM partner cooperation.

The AGAC Issue Focus Team prepared this Fall/Winter Edition of Issue Focus: Migration and the Human Rights of Older Persons. Valuable insight and input were provided by the contributors to this issue—Kai Leichsenring at the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research in Vienna; Michelle G. Ong at the University of the Philippines Diliman; Nicole Dubus at the California State University in San Jose; and Alistair Hunter at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom.

We hope that this edition will inspire advocates for the human rights of older persons all around the world and contribute to improving older people’s quality of life, particularly with respect to migration. We urge the international community to hold in-depth discussions about related issues, keeping in mind those, including older people, who are on the move or left behind; migrants who are aging in the host country, returning to their home country, or circulating between borders; and migrant care workers for older people.

For more information, please see the accompanying report.