January 13-14, 2014: Asian Migrants and the Transformation of Gulf Oil-exporting Countries

Manolo Abella, January 13-14, 2014 Summary report

Manolo Abella, former Director of the International Migration Programme of the ILO, will be at UCD January 14, 2014. He will talk on the role of foreign workers in Asian economic development, especially migration from the Philippines and to the Gulf Cooperation Countries and on how the UN system deals with international migration. He will give a public talk on January 14 in Room 6 Olson from 6:10-7:30pm on Asian Migrants and the Transformation of Gulf Oil-exporting Countries.

Suggested readings include:

• ILO Multilateral Framework on Labour Migration
• Multilateral approaches to managing migration
• Towards a fair deal for migrant workers in the global economy

If you would like to meet with Abella, please contact Philip Martin.