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Institute for Workplace Studies                 Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations          Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor                  Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016                      Director, IWS News Bureau
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ILO Library, Bangkok

Report on the ILO Sub-regional Training Workshop on  Labour Migration Policy and Management
http://www.ilo.org/asia/library/download/pub04-20.pdf
[full-text, 142 pages]
edited by Elizabeth Morris
Bangkok: ILO, 2004. viii, 132 p.
ISBN 92-2-116701-1 (Print)
ISBN 92-2-116702-X (Web)
ISBN 92-2-116703-8 (CD-ROM)

Report on the ILO Sub-regional Training Workshop on Labour Migration Policy and Management, Ayutthaya, Thailand, 2-6 August 2004 is part of the endeavour to strengthen the capacity of governments, employers and workers in formulating policies and managing programmes for labour migration in order to maximize the potential benefits while protecting migrant workers.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
1.       Introduction
2.       Opening session
3.       Defreeze and icebreaker
4.       Background and current issues and responses in global and regional migration
5.       International Labour Conference 2004: general discussion on migrant workers
6.       Development of national labour migration policies and structures
7.       Review of the first day
8.       Models for managing migration
9.       Sending workers abroad: the Vietnamese experience
10.   Employing foreign workers
11.   Review of the second day
12.   International labour standards for migrant workers
13.   The roles of employersorganizations and workers organizations in labour migration policy and management
14.   Review of the third day
15.   Irregular migration and migration management
16.   Migration and GEMS: gender equality promotion through gender mainstreaming strategies
17.   Thailands experience and migration management
18.   Trafficking in children and women
19.   Review of the fourth day
20.   Migration information and statistics
21.   Follow-up plans or re-entry strategies
22.   Closing ceremony
Annexes
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