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This project aims to enhance decent work opportunities for migrant domestic workers by reducing their vulnerability to exploitation and abuse, and mitigating the adverse impact of migration on the families left behind. The project will works to:

a) enhance the global knowledge base on migration in global care chains though comparative, quantitative and qualitative research in selected countries;

b) raise awareness about human and labour rights of migrant domestic workers, including rights as key actors of social and economic development, and;

A research project focused on labour market integration of newly arrived immigrants in six EU countries. The project will provide new empirical evidence on the labour-market integration trajectories of these immigrants into middle-skilled jobs. Relying on a combination of data analysis, qualitative research, and interviews with policymakers and social partners.

At the request of the Governments of Netherlands and Switzerland, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) developed this handbook as a tool for policymakers and practitioners to help them reach out to their diaspora and develop meaningful partnerships with them in their home and host countries. The handbook reflects the outcomes of a survey implemented jointly by the IOM and MPI among GFMD focal points, as well as the discussions within the GFMD on how to engage the diasporas and migrant communities.