Technical Reports on Labour Migration

  1. The migrant pay gap: Understanding wage differences between migrants and nationals
  2. Skills mismatch of natives and immigrants in Europe
  3. Migrant Workers in Commercial Agriculture
  4. International Migrant Workers in the Mining Sector
  5. Migrant Work & Employment in the Construction Sector

Publications on labour migration

April 2021

  1. Publication

    Call for Proposals for Design and Implementation of a Rural Employment Services Model in the Refugee Host districts of the PROSPECTS programme in Uganda

    01 April 2021

    Partnership for Improving prospects for forcibly displaced persons and host communities

April 2018

  1. Publication

    Brief: The ILO Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis

    20 April 2018

    Within the framework of the Regional Refugee Response and Resilience Plan (3RP), the ILO has adopted a development-focused and employment-driven strategy to support host communities and refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. It aims to preserve social and economic stability and enhance resilience at the national level, in line with national plans and chapters of the 3RP. Embedded in the principles of decent work, the ILO strategy builds on its core mandate to promote employment, social dialogue, social protection and international labour standards.

January 2014

  1. Publication

    Reporting on Rural Issues

    27 January 2014

    This guide is a tool for people working in the media to think differently and report differently about rural areas. It provides key facts and figures about rural communities and issues, and aims to shatter some dominant stereotypes and negative clichés when covering rural issues.

  2. Publication

    Chapter 8: Songaï, Benin

    27 January 2014

    Songhaï is an NGO empowering rural African communities, particularly farmers, youth, and women, by building their capacities to become agricultural, agribusiness, and handicraft entrepreneurs.

  3. Publication

    Chapter 7: Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA), India

    27 January 2014

    The Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) is a membership-based organization created in 1972 from a combination of the labour, women, and cooperative movements, to organize self-employed women in the informal economy and assist their collective struggle for social justice, equality, and fair treatment.

  4. Publication

    Chapter 5: The Nyamata Telecentre and the Rwanda Telecentre Network (RTN), Rwanda

    27 January 2014

    Founded in 2004, the Nyamata Telecentre is a private enterprise whose goal is to stimulate rural development by providing access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the village of Nyamata, located near Rwanda’s capital Kigali.

  5. Publication

    Learning from Catalyst of Rural Transformation

    27 January 2014

    This publication reviews 8 cases of "Catalyst" of rural transformation from different countries. It extracts lessons that remind us of the economic and development potential of rural areas, and most important, the central role of rural men and women, young people, indigenous populations and other groups to unleash that potential.