Introduction We aimed to determine the association between paternal labour migration and the growth of the left-behind ...

Placing Labour Rights at the centre of systems governing migration: ratify and implement International Labour Standards for all migrants regardless of their status, including the ILO ...

Nepal has around 416 licensed agencies, Sri Lanka 248, Myanmar about 600, India around 192 registered recruiters, while Pakistan 464 licensed overseas employment promoters, highlighting concerns that ...

The key highlights of the report include bridging some of the data gaps from the previous edition by availing data from additional data sources, improved chapter on social protection, remittance, and ...

Uzbekistan is implementing a new strategy to regulate labor migration. Its underlying philosophy appears to be ‘steer clear of Russia if at all possible.’ That goal, of course, won’t be achieved ...

This paper highlights recent trends in the Kosovo labor market and emigration. Like other Western Balkan countries, Kosovo experienced a sharp decline in population over the previous decade, as ...

In most European contexts, the word “migration” refers mostly to people arriving from abroad. In Uzbekistan, it refers to citizens who travel overseas to work, gain professional experience and later ...

Indonesia's human capital development is middling. The Asian Financial Crisis resulted in a long-lasting premature transition to a services-based economy, with the resulting jobs having few ...

“This one is from my first trip to Russia,” said Alisher Khudoyorov, showing a photo of him smiling at Moscow’s Red Square circa 2002. The 55-year-old Dushanbe, Tajikistan native spent almost a ...