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This report aims to examine the challenges and good practices related to the employment of migrant workers in European supply chains in the agriculture, food-processing, manufacturing and hospitality sectors. It initially provides background information on the risks to migrant workers in supply… Read More

This resource is the second chapter of the IRIS Handbook for Governments on Ethical Recruitment and Migrant Worker Protection. It provides governments with practical guidance on how to implement and improve the administration of private international labour recruiter frameworks, with an emphasis on… Read More

This resource is the first chapter of the IRIS Handbook for Governments on Ethical Recruitment and Migrant Worker Protection. It provides governments with practical guidance on how to adopt and strengthen a rights-based framework to regulate private international labour recruiters and uphold… Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a global mobility deadlock with nearly all international borders closed for non-essential travel, left migrants in countries of destination acutely vulnerable with risks to health, as well as socioeconomic and social security status, compounded by diverging measures and… Read More

Although present literature provides guidance on fair and ethical recruitment, there is a lack of attention on how the procurement of labour recruiters’ services can be leveraged to prevent forced labour and exploitation in global supply chains. Labour recruiters have been essential not only in… Read More

The Protecting Migrant Workers in Indo-Pacific Supply Chains: A Good Practice Guide for Business and Bali Process Member State (Indo-Pacific Supply Chain Guide) presents a range of good practices and scalable solutions for businesses and the Bali Process Member States to protect migrant workers… Read More

Recent estimates of modern slavery confirm that forced labour remains a significant problem for the private sector. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated an issue which disproportionately impacts migrant workers, who are often on the frontlines of essential industries. While vital in… Read More

The Employer Guidebook provides concrete, operational guidance to employers to strengthen direct ethical recruitment of interstate migrant workers in the garment and textile industry of India, highlights good business practices to consider for upholding migrant workers' human and labour rights and… Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the unexpected return of many Cambodian women migrant workers to their home provinces. Job losses caused by lockdowns, border closures and a general fear of being separated from family members during the pandemic forced large numbers of women working abroad or… Read More

Gegenstand von Kapitel 3 sind wichtige regionale Dimensionen und Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der Migration. Im Mittelpunkt dabei stehen sechs von den Vereinten Nationen ausgewiesene Makro- bzw. Subregionen: Afrika, Asien, Europa, Lateinamerika und Karibik, Nordamerika sowie Ozeanien. Die Analyse… Read More

Dieses Kapitel bietet einen Überblick über globale Daten und Trends im Hinblick auf Migrationsbestände und internationale Wanderungsbewegungen. Ferner werden bestimmte Gruppen von Migranten – insbesondere Wanderarbeitnehmer, Flüchtlinge, Asylsuchende, Binnenvertriebene und vermisste Migranten –… Read More

Nepal’s labour migration can be divided into internal migration, migration to India and migration to countries other than India. The migration to countries other than India is referred as “foreign employment”. Labour migration for employment has been a common livelihood strategy for many Nepali… Read More

This document provides practical guidance for the hospitality industry on how to ethically recruit international migrant workers within business enterprise operations and supply chains. It has been developed by IOM in partnership with the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance.

Within the framework of the project, Understanding and Managing Internal Migration in Mongolia (UMIMM), a study on employment was conducted to improve evidence-based policymaking on internal migration.

This chapter provides an overview of global data and trends on international migrants and international migration. It also provides a discussion of particular migrant groups – namely migrant workers, refugees, asylum seekers and IDPs – as well as of COVID-19 impacts on migration and long-term… Read More

Chapter 3 provides a discussion of key regional dimensions of, and developments in, migration. The discussion focuses on six United Nations world regions, namely Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America and Oceania.  For each of these regions, the analysis includes: 

Authored by Jeremaiah M. Opiniano, this Migration Research Series paper explores some of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Filipino overseas migrants and the responses and measures adopted by the Philippines in 2020. It reviews the main implications and challenges that were raised by the… Read More

This report is part of the outputs under the regional initiative “Mitigating the effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on migrants and their families from Central Asia” produced with the financial support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and implemented by IOM. 

This report provides an initial examination of available sources of data on migrant worker fatalities at the global, regional and country levels. The existence and quality of data are highly variable across countries, with knowledge concerning migrants mostly coming from middle- and high-income… Read More

คู่มือฉบับนี้มีจุดประสงค์เพื่อส่งเสริมการใช้กลไกทางเลือกเพื่อการระงับข้อพิพาท ซึ่งเป็นหนึ่งในช่องทางที่มีประสิทธิภาพในการแก้ไขเยียวยาปัญหาจากการละเมิดสิทธิแรงงานสำหรับแรงงานทุกคนซึ่งรวมถึงแรงงานข้ามชาติ… Read More

The Business Guidebook promotes the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms (ADR) in Thailand, as an effective channel for improving remediation outcomes for all workers, including migrant workers. The Guidebook, explaining the processes for state-based grievance mechanisms and ADR… Read More

The research report will present the findings from the case study in the two selected provinces – Savannakhet and Xayaboury – to help readers have a better understanding of the migration trends of Lao migrants, as well as any increased drivers of vulnerability that may change the trafficking… Read More

The research report will present the findings from the case study in the two selected provinces – Savannakhet and Xayaboury – to help readers have a better understanding of the migration trends of Lao migrants, as well as any increased drivers of vulnerability that may change the trafficking… Read More

The Business Guidebook promotes the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms (ADR) in Thailand, as an effective channel for improving remediation outcomes for all workers, including migrant workers. The Guidebook, explaining the processes for state-based grievance mechanisms and ADR… Read More

This publication presents the main research findings and recommendations, with respect to bilateral labour migration governance in two Southern African important migration corridors, notably Lesotho–South Africa and Zimbabwe–South Africa.

The Business Guidebook promotes the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms (ADR) in Thailand, as an effective channel for improving remediation outcomes for all workers, including migrant workers. The Guidebook, explaining the processes for state-based grievance mechanisms and ADR… Read More

คู่มือฉบับนี้มีจุดประสงค์เพื่อสนับสนุนผู้ว่าจ้างไทย เจ้าหน้าที่ฝ่ายทรัพยากรบุคคล ล่าม และพนักงานในบริษัทที่ทำงานกับแรงงานข้ามชาติโดยตรง ในการปฏิบัติตามกฎหมายและมาตรฐานด้านสิทธิแรงงาน รวมถึงการทำความเข้าใจและการเคารพความหลากหลายทางวัฒนธรรมในการดำเนินงานทางธุรกิจให้ดียิ่งขึ้น ทั้งนี้… Read More

La Libye est de longue date une destination majeure pour les travailleurs étrangers d’Afrique subsaharienne, d’Afrique du Nord, du Moyen-Orient et d’Asie, qui ont largement contribué à l’économie locale. La présente analyse donne un aperçu des éléments factuels concernant l’intégration des migrants… Read More

Ce chapitre examine les différences et les similarités entre les migrants qui sont récemment arrivés en Libye et ceux qui s’y trouvent depuis au moins un an sur le plan de la migration de main-d’oeuvre, de l’emploi, des projets, des rapatriements de fonds, de l’accès aux services, des besoins… Read More

Migrant workers play an integral role in contributing to national economic growth of countries of origin, transit and destination, and the development of increasingly globalized and diverse business models. With migrant labour making 10 per cent of workforce in Thailand, workplaces across the… Read More

The Operational Guidelines for Businesses on Remediation of Human Rights Grievances (the “Guidelines”) are created to primarily help companies and industry groups to develop voluntary programmes to remediate worker grievances, especially with regard to addressing human rights concerns of migrant… Read More

Les thèmes du recrutement éthique, défini comme le recrutement de travailleurs de manière légale, équitable et transparente, dans le respect de leur dignité et des droits de l'homme, et de la migration de main-d'œuvre, définie comme le déplacement de personnes d'un État à un autre, ou à l'intérieur… Read More

Tujuan dari Pedoman ini adalah untuk memberikan informasi kepada perekrut tenaga kerja tentang praktik terbaik untuk mempromosikan, memfasilitasi dan memastikan perekrutan etis pekerja rumah tangga migran. Pedoman ini berasal dari Standar Sistem Integritas Rekrutmen Internasional (IRIS), yang… Read More

International Migration is a refereed bimonthly review of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on current migration issues as analysed by demographers, economists, and sociologists all over the world. The journal is edited by Koç University and published and distributed by Wiley. The… Read More

While migration predictions are an indispensable part of any attempt to proactively prepare for future opportunities and challenges, and to render migration more foreseeable, no single approach can capture all relevant aspects of a complex and multidimensional phenomenon such as migration.

La población del Perú está expuesta y es vulnerable a una serie de peligros y los estudios demuestran que estos peligros son impulsores clave de la migración en el país. Los peligros hidrometeorológicos que provocan un exceso de agua (como las lluvias torrenciales e inundaciones) o su escasez (como… Read More

Dieses Kapitel bietet einen Überblick über die globalen Daten und Trends zu den internationalen Migrantinnen und Migranten und zur internationalen Migration. Migrantengruppen wie Wanderarbeitnehmer, Flüchtlinge, Asylsuchende, Binnenvertriebene und Staatenlose wie auch Rücküberweisungen werden im… Read More

For countries like Bangladesh whose economies are tied to international labour migration, the nexus between remittances, asset-building and gender is of great relevance to economic development. This report finds that a focus on migrants’ job skills and their families’ assets back home offers… Read More

Questa ricerca, svolta dall’Università di Parma per l’OIM Italia, indaga sulla categoria delle imprese multiculturali, che, nonostante sia in espansione, non è ancora sufficientemente esplorata nel panorama italiano. Le imprese multiculturali sono caratterizzate da un management o uno staff… Read More

This research, carried out by the University of Parma for IOM Italy, sheds light on the category of multicultural enterprises, which, despite being a spreading phenomenon, still seems to be a neglected topic in the Italian landscape. Such companies feature a culturally mixed management or staff and… Read More

3. Bölüm göçün bölgesel düzeyde boyutlarının ve  sergilediği gelişmelerin kilit unsurları üzerine bir tartışma sunmaktadır. Tartışma altı dünya bölgesine odaklanmaktadır – Afrika, Asya, Avrupa, Latin Amerika ve Karayipler, Kuzey Amerika ve Okyanusya. Analiz, bu bölgelerden her biri için ayrı ayrı… Read More

Bu bölüm uluslararası göçmenlere ve uluslararası göçe ilişkin küresel verilere ve eğilimlere genel bir bakış sunmaktadır. Bölümde ayrıca göçmen işçiler, mülteciler, sığınmacılar ve IDP’ler gibi belirli göçmen gruplarının yanısıra, işçi dövizleri üzerine de bir tartışmaya yer verilmiştir. Buna ek… Read More

O Capítulo 3 apresenta uma discussão das principais dimensões regionais e desenvolvimentos em termos de migração. A discussão se concentra em seis regiões do mundo, a saber: África, Ásia, Europa, América Latina e Caribe, América do Norte e Oceania. Para cada uma dessas regiões, a análise inclui:

Este capítulo oferece uma visão geral dos dados e tendências globais sobre migrantes internacionais e migração internacional. Também abre uma discussão de grupos de migrantes específicos - ou seja, trabalhadores migrantes, refugiados, requerentes de asilo e deslocados internos -, assim como de… Read More

Zimbabwe is destination, transit and largely sending country for labour migrants to countries in Southern Africa and further afield. Labour migration in Zimbabwe has been characterized by many challenges, including brain drain, irregular migration, lack of a mechanism for social protection of… Read More

La migración internacional es un elemento fundamental en los procesos de desarrollo. El corredor migratorio de América Central y México es uno de los más importantes del mundo, a través del cual transitan, tanto personas migrantes originarias de los países de la zona, como personas provenientes de… Read More

This chapter explores differences and similarities between migrants who have recently arrived in Libya and those who have been there for at least one year, along the dimensions of labour migration, employment, intentions, remittances, access to services,humanitarian needs and vulnerabilities, based… Read More

Libya has historically been a major destination country for foreign workers from across sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia, who have significantly contributed to the local economy. This analysis provides an overview of the evidence regarding the integration of migrants in… Read More

This chapter analyses migration to small-scale gold mining sites in Mali and Burkina Faso. It investigates the extent to which these promote development in communities of destination, and examines migrants’ profiles and reasons to migrate. It finds that gold miming sites draw considerable flows of… Read More