Publications on labour migration

May 2017

  1. 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

  1. Meeting document

    Background Paper - Realizing a Fair Migration Agenda: Labour Flows Between Asia and the Arab States Experts’ Meeting

    05 September 2016

August 2015

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. Meeting document

    The Kuwait Declaration of the Third Ministerial Consultation of the Abu Dhabi Dialogue

    28 November 2014

June 2014

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. International Migration Papers No. 48

    Women migrant domestic workers in Lebanon

    01 March 2002

February 2002

  1. International Migration Papers No. 47

    Women migrant domestic workers in Bahrain

    25 February 2002