Publications on labour migration

March 2023

  1. Publication

    Socio-economic profiling of refugees and asylum seekers in Egypt

    21 March 2023

    This study is an attempt to survey and better understand the socio-economic characteristics of refugees and asylum seeking populations in Egypt

  2. Publication

    Results of pilot trials on greenhouse productivity and working condition with 12 selected farmers in Akkar and the Bekaa

    16 March 2023

  3. Publication

    No Escape: Assessing the relationship between slavery-related abuse and internal displacement in Nigeria, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    15 March 2023

    The International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and Walk Free conducted a study to estimate the prevalence of slavery-related abuse among people who experienced displacement.

  4. Fair and ethical recruitment

    Regional operational guidelines on fair and ethical recruitment in ASEAN. Improving regulation and enforcement: A resource for regulators

    09 March 2023

    The regional operational guidelines provide guidance to government regulators on fair recruitment practices, licensing private recruitment agencies, monitoring recruitment processes, and acting on complaints related to the recruitment process. Developed within the framework of the ILO general principles and operational guidelines for fair recruitment, these regional operational guidelines are relevant to both countries of origin and destination.

  5. ILO Brief

    Media and Labour migration in Nigeria: Lessons from the FAIRWAY Global Programme

    01 March 2023

    This brief is hinged on learning documented during processes leading to the country adaptation of ILO’s Media Toolkit for Reporting Forced Labour and Fair Recruitment, taking into account other related media engagements, trainings and sensitization activities during implementation of ILO’s FAIRWAY global Programme in Nigeria.

February 2023

  1. ILO Brief

    Intervention Model: For extending social protection to migrant workers in the informal economy

    28 February 2023

  2. ILO Working paper 88

    The impact of Covid-19 on South African migrant wage workers and the self-employed

    28 February 2023

    When Covid-19 struck the South African government declared some of the strictest lockdowns worldwide. The impact of lockdowns on the working classes was especially severe. Initially many workers were left with no income, leading to warnings that a pandemic of hunger may eclipse the deadliness of the Covid-19 pandemic.

  3. Meeting document

    Joint Statement of the Third Joint Dialogue on labour migration between the ASEAN Confederation of Employers and the ASEAN Trade Union Council

    24 February 2023

    The Third Joint Dialogue of the ASEAN Confederation of Employers and the ASEAN Trade Union Council was held on 24 February 2023 in Tokyo, Japan. The dialogue was hosted by the ASEAN Confederation of Employers with support from the ILO’s TRIANGLE in ASEAN programme, in coordination with the ILO’s Bureau of Employers Activities (and Bureau of Workers Activities).

  4. Country factsheets

    ILO PROSPECTS at a glance

    17 February 2023

    The country factsheets provide an overview of the key interventions and results of PROSPECTS programme implementation.

  5. Publication

    ILO’s work to Strengthen the Socioeconomic Integration of Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean

    16 February 2023

    Our region currently faces the largest human displacement in its history and the second largest in the world: the Venezuelan displacement