Publications on labour migration
May 2017
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Publication
Employer-Migrant Worker Relationships in the Middle East: Exploring scope for internal labour market mobility and fair migration
04 May 2017
Reforming migrant worker visa-sponsorship schemes in the Middle East can benefit the economies of receiving countries as well as the migrant workers themselves.
September 2016
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Meeting document
Background Paper - Realizing a Fair Migration Agenda: Labour Flows Between Asia and the Arab States Experts’ Meeting
05 September 2016
August 2015
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Fair recruitment initiative: Working paper no. 2
Executive summary: The business of recruiting Bangladeshi women for domestic work in Jordan and Lebanon
19 August 2015
December 2014
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Publication
Labour demand and social dialogue: Two binding constraints for decent work for youth in the Arab Region
18 December 2014
EMPLOYMENT Working Paper No. 164
November 2014
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Meeting document
The Kuwait Declaration of the Third Ministerial Consultation of the Abu Dhabi Dialogue
28 November 2014
June 2014
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Publication
Reaffirming and promoting rights during transition: development results 2012-2013
30 June 2014
By looking at a narrow set of indicators, such as the rate of privatization, trade openness, debt, inflation and foreign direct investment, most analysts had concluded that Arab countries were on the right track economically in the lead up to the Arab uprisings.
April 2013
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Publication
Tricked and Trapped: Human Trafficking in the Middle East
09 April 2013
This study sheds light on the situation of trafficked adult workers in the Middle East, both women and men. It analyses the complex processes by which vulnerable migrant workers are tricked and trapped into forced labour in various types of work in the region, and the constraints that prevent them from leaving.
March 2002
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International Migration Papers No. 48
Women migrant domestic workers in Lebanon
01 March 2002
February 2002
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International Migration Papers No. 47
Women migrant domestic workers in Bahrain
25 February 2002