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The report “Accelerating Access to Remedy: Promising Practices to Enhance Access to Remedy for Migrant Workers in South-East Asia” presents an overview of the status of migrant workers’ access to remedy in Hong Kong SAR China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam, through the lens of… Read More
This research study examines past and current media migration reportage and in particular the representation of Filipino migrant workers in Philippine media. This report examines the dominant themes in the reportage of migrant worker issues through a narrative analysis of the coverage of overseas… 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
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
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
Supporting Brighter Futures: Young Women and Girls and Labour Migration in South-East Asia and the Pacific explores and critically examines the existing evidence base on key aspects of the topic so as to inform potential policy and programmatic responses designed to enhance labour migration impacts… Read More
Debt and indebtedness are central to the lives of migrants from South-East Asia. Indebtedness can motivate the need for migration and, conversely, migrants regularly use loans to finance costly cross-border moves. The remittances that migrants then send home are often used to repay household debt.… Read More
The eighth ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML) was hosted by the Government of Malaysia as the ASEAN Chair, on 26 and 27 October 2015, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This Forum was supported by the ASEAN Secretariat (ASEC), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Organization… Read More
The Philippines has the most sophisticated labour-exporting model in the world; 1.8 million temporary workers were deployed in 2014 alone. While Filipino migrant workers contribute significantly to the national economy with the remittances they send home, this reliance on exporting labour raises an… Read More
The Abu Dhabi Declaration, which was adopted by ministers from 20 countries of origin and destination recognizes that properly managed temporary contractual mobility will benefit both countries of origin and destination and improve the well-being of temporary contractual workers.
In 2007, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed on an ambitious goal to fast track the creation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015 which would transform the ASEAN region into a single market and production base. This transformation would be based on five core… Read More
In an era of unprecedented human mobility, migration from and within the Asia-Pacific region has assumed gendered dimensions, with implications for migration flows, trends and patterns. While gender roles, inequalities and relations affect who migrates, it also has significant implications for… Read More
International Migration is a refereed quarterly 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 at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of… Read More
Migrant health issues have risen on the agenda of policymakers in the Asia-Pacific region in recent years. The challenge now is how to translate the momentum generated at the highest levels of government into visible change on the ground.
Many Asian migrant workers, especially those working under… Read More
The state plays a strong role in overseas employment programmes in the Philippines, Indonesia and Nepal, which are leading labour exporters — with more than 2 million of their workers deploying on formal temporary contracts in 2009 alone.
With overseas employment a more permanent feature of the… Read More
Responding to chronic labour shortages in the oil rich Arab states in the 1970s and 1980s, some Asian states have been among the first to develop an active overseas employment or labour migration policy that seeks to provide protection to its nationals working abroad, relieve domestic unemployment… Read More