Publications on labour migration
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 2016
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Publication
The cost of migration: What low-skilled migrant workers from Pakistan pay to work in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
23 August 2016
This report presents the findings of a survey on migration expenses that Pakistani workers paid to secure jobs in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The focus is on low-skilled migrants, who are the most vulnerable because of their low educational qualifications and limited asset base.
June 2015
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Publication
Travel Smart – Work Smart A guide for Pakistani migrant workers in Saudi Arabia
26 June 2015
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Publication
Labour Market Trends Analysis and Labour Migration from South Asia to Gulf Cooperation Council Countries, India and Malaysia
26 June 2015
December 2014
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Meeting document
Summary Document - Inter-regional Expert’s Meeting on Realizing a Fair Migration Agenda: Labour Flows between Asia and the Arab States
18 December 2014
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Meeting document
Summary Document - Inter-regional Expert’s Meeting on Realizing a Fair Migration Agenda: Labour Flows between Asia and the Arab States
18 December 2014
November 2014
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Meeting document
The Kuwait Declaration of the Third Ministerial Consultation of the Abu Dhabi Dialogue
28 November 2014
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Meeting document
Agenda: Realising a Fair Migration Agenda: Labour flows between Asia and the Arab States Expert Meeting
19 November 2014
May 2009
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Publication
Unravelling the vicious cycle of recruitment
29 May 2009
This study in Bangladesh was commissioned against the backdrop of growing concern globally about the particular vulnerability of both regular and irregular migrant workers to exploitation, trafficking and forced labour. It was undertaken to inform dialogue between Asian sender and Middle Eastern destination countries, at a Gulf Forum on Temporary Contractual Labour, held in Abu Dhabi in early 2008, along with a sister study addressing similar questions in Pakistan. While provisional findings were first presented at that time, we are now pleased to publish the full findings of the research, following the launch of the ILO’s third global report on forced labour, entitled “The cost of coercion” on 12 May 2009.