As world leaders gather in New York to discuss global migration, the ILO has just published a new series of in-depth articles about global migration for work. Produced by experts in their respective fields, the articles in the special issue of the International Labour Review (ILR) highlight such issues as temporary migration programmes, the globalization of the labour market for health-care professionals, China's strategies to reverse the brain drain, and the effects of immigration on the employment of nationals in Italy. The ILR also reports on a joint ILO/France symposium concerned with the internationalization of employment, and on the ILO's new Convention on maritime labour.
The High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development will take place on September 14-15, 2006 at UN Headquarters, at the opening of the General Assembly's 61st Session. ILO Director-General Juan Somavia will participate in a roundtable on "Effects of international migration on economic and social development". The meeting will be also an occasion to present the ILO's Decent Work perspective on labour migration and to disseminate the ILO Multilateral Framework on Labour Migration, the publication of which was authorized by the ILO Governing Body in March 2006.
The table of contents of the International Labour Review, vol. 145 (2006), No. 1-2, including abstracts of the articles, is available at: www.ilo.org/public/english/support/publ/revue/sommaire/145-1-2.htm.