Legal Frameworks on Migration

Launched in 1994, EURES is a European cooperation network of employment services, designed to facilitate the free movement of workers. The network has always worked hard to ensure that European citizens can benefit from the same opportunities, despite language barriers, cultural differences, bureaucratic challenges, diverse employment laws and a lack of recognition of educational certificates across Europe.

This web portal provides information on access to job opportunities in 32 European countries. It also promotes the cooperation amongst national employment agencies.

The project works to strengthen the organizational and institutional capacity in Moldova and Ukraine to regulate legal labour migration and promote sustainable return. It focuses on enhancing human resources capital and preventing skills waste. The project intends to build capacities to:

i) analyse the skills shortages and oversupply as a result of migration;

ii) balance migration flows and return with national needs and EU Member States skills needs;

The project aims to develop a coherent framework of migration policy across national boundaries in order to ensure the rights of low skilled, rural female domestic workers from the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia and Somalia) in the Middle East and Sudan. The project seeks to improve coordination and cooperation of social partners, civil society, institutions and organizations working on migration issues in Ethiopia, as well as in the receiving countries. It provides female domestic workers with accurate information prior to migration and with safe havens to turn to in emergencies.

This is a multi-country technical cooperation project to strengthen labour market governance and improve the development impact of labour migration within the Pacific. The effort is working to build capacity of governments, unions, businesses and local communities to provide return migrant workers with effective reintegration services, based on identified needs. Good practices relating to pre-departure services will also be identified and promoted.

The TRIANGLE project aims to significantly reduce the exploitation of labour migrants in the region through increased legal and safe migration and improved labour protection. The project will promote both bilateral and regional approaches to deal with shared concerns, make regionalism more effective, and enhance the capacity of institutions in ASEAN. The project objectives are in line with the strategic priorities of the ASEAN Labour Ministers Work Programme (2010-2015).

Sweden reformed its labour immigration rules in 2008. The reform is designed to create a demand-driven, effective and flexible system which will make it easier for people to come to Sweden and work, and for Swedish companies to recruit labour from outside the EU/EEA area . The Swedish system recognizes that we need workers of all skill levels and in many different branches and sectors. The reform is therefore designed to allow workers of all skill levels to migrate to Sweden under one general framework and with access to a wide range of rights.

This website, part of the Government of Mexico CONDUSEF (National Commission for the Protection and Defence of Users of Financial Services) allows remittance senders to compare different fees across operators.

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The LMIS project ("Best practices on collecting and sharing Labour Migration Data for the improvement of the Labour Market Information Systems") was aimed at supporting the inclusion and proper management of labour migration information in labour market information systems (LMIS); contributing to policy making with a view to fostering greater intra regional labour mobility and international dialogue and cooperation and also to enhancing the positive effect of migration on the economic development of six countries in the sub-region including Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, and Libya.

Zimbabwe has entered into a MoU with the Republic of South Africa to facilitate the recruitment of Zimbabwean workers in South African farms in the Limpopo province.