International labour migration: A rights-based approach - Executive Summary

This is a comprehensive discussion of issues of labour migration in a globalizing world. It highlights ILO perspectives on labour migration, the connections between migration and development, decent work for migrant workers, the normative framework for protection of migrant rights, the governance of international labour migration, and the role of social dialogue and international cooperation. In so doing, it brings together the elements of a rights-based approach to labour migration as identified by its constituents