Reviews policies and programmes the Philippines has adopted as an origin country to protect its migrant workers at different stages of migration - pre-deployment, at the worksite, and upon return. Looks in detail at features of regulatory frameworks for overseas employment, the varied mechanisms...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on employment policy with regard to recruitment of migrant workers from Southern African countries for work in South Africa R - constitutes part of a WEP research project on migration for employment. References.

ILO pub. Working paper on the international migration of migrant workers in and out of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand - covers long term and short term migration, irregular migrants, recruitment, remittances, wages, wage differentials, skills, occupational structure, labour...

Working paper on legal aspects of African migrant worker labour supply from Lesotho to the mining industry in South Africa R. Covers historical trends in migration policy before and since independence, recruitment policy in relation to migrants, discrimination patterns, etc., and comments on...

Includes texts of "Charter of Rights for Migrant Workers in Southern Africa", "Charter of Rights for Migrant Workers" (South African Catholic Bishops Conference) and "National Union of Mineworkers Miners' Bill of Rights".

ILO pub. Working paper on working conditions of Pakistani migrant workers in the Middle East, with particular reference to their situation in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - examines the findings of a survey carried out from 1976 to 1983 and covering grievances with regard to breach...

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper comprising a case study illustrating the working conditions of migrant worker miners in gold mines of South Africa r - analyses and comments on restrictions on black labour mobility and trade union rights, discriminatory labour legislation, views of wiehahn and...

Discusses best practices in temporary labour migration programmes in Asia and the Pacific region in each stage of the migration process including recruitment and selection, predeparture preparation, at the destination, and upon return. It gives a typology of the different types of temporary...