Migrant women workers

Lessons learned: Lessons learned on policy and programme responses to unfree labour in destination countries for migrant women workers

This document describes the lessons learned by the Work in Freedom programme on policy and programme responses to unfree labour in destination countries for migrant women workers. This compilation was preceded by an earlier edition of Lessons Learned in October 2021 on recruitment of migrant workers, and another one in April 2021, on outreach to migrant women in areas of origin.

This paper documents the lessons learned by the Work in Freedom Programme regarding policy and programme responses to unfree labour in destination countries for migrant women workers. While anti-trafficking programmes tend to pay significantly more attention to migration and recruitment, these lessons illustrate ten years of cumulated experience reducing vulnerability to forced labour in domestic and garment sectors of South and West Asia.