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Asia-Pacific Launch of Developing a Road Map for Engaging Diasporas in Development
A discussion on diaspora engagement tied to the publication of an IOM-MPI handbook for policymakers and others seeking to engage their diasporas meaningfully.
Developing a Road Map for Engaging Diasporas in Development
The Washington DC launch event for the MPI/IOM handbook on diaspora engagement with the Director General of the International Organization for Migration, and MPI's Kathleen Newland.
Labor Migration from Colombo Process Countries
This discussion in Bangkok launched an issue brief series on labor migration in Asia undertaken by IOM and MPI, with key speakers from the governments of Thailand, Bangladesh, and the Philippines.
Labour Migration from Colombo Process Countries: Good Practices, Challenges and Ways Forward
Colombo Process governments have made legislative strides on labor migration since 2005, but implementation gaps in recruitment and information dissemination undermine progress.
Here, There, and Back Again: A New Zealand Case Study of Chinese Circulatory Transmigration
Among Chinese migrants in New Zealand, younger people identify more strongly with their homeland, contradicting classical theories of acculturation.
Running in Circles: Progress and Challenges in Regulating Recruitment of Filipino and Sri Lankan Labor Migrants to Jordan
Labor migration from the Philippines and Sri Lanka to Jordan remains tightly regulated on paper but riddled with recruiter abuses and protection gaps.
Running in Circles: Progress and Challenges in Regulating Recruitment of Filipino and Sri Lankan Labor Migrants to Jordan (In Arabic)
لا تزال هجرة اليد العاملة من الفلبين وسريلانكا إلى الأردن خاضعة لرقابة صارمة على الورق، لكنها تعج بانتهاكات شركات التوظيف وثغرات في الحماية.
Migration's Middlemen: Regulating Recruitment Agencies in the Philippines-UAE Corridor
MPI report release with the Labor Attaché of the Philippines Embassy in Washington; Director of the Human Development Report Office, UN Development Program (TBC); and MPI's Kathleen Newland and Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias.
Migration's Middlemen: Regulating Recruitment Agencies in the Philippines-United Arab Emirates Corridor
The Philippines–UAE corridor shows how weak regulation of private recruitment agencies leaves migrants vulnerable even with extensive licensing and oversight standards.
Show Me the Money (and Opportunity): Why Skilled People Leave Home — and Why They Sometimes Return
Foreign wages are major brain-drain drivers across professions, but many skilled migrants often return to their origin countries or go back and forth between locations.