United Nations Expert Group Meeting on International Migration and Development in Asia and the Pacific

Bangkok, Thailand, 20-21 September 2008

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Documents

• Objectives of the Meeting
• Agenda
  
  Report of the Expert Group Meeting on International Migration and Development in Asia and the Pacific
  

Background Paper

• Key trends and challenges on international migration and development in Asia and the Pacific - UNESCAP

Contributed Papers

• Another miracle? Managing labour migration in Asia
  (UN/POP/EGM-MIG/2008/1) - Philip Martin
  
  
• Population, migration and development in Asia, with special emphasis on the South Pacific: the impact of migration on population and the MDGS
  (UN/POP/EGM-MIG/2008/2) - Jean-Louis Rallu
  
  
• Remittances and development in the Pacific: effects on human development in Fiji and Tonga
  (UN/POP/EGM-MIG/2008/3) - Richard P. C. Brown
  
  
• Migration and development
  (UN/POP/EGM-MIG/2008/4) - Ronald Skeldon
  
  
• Migration policies, practices and cooperation mechanisms in the Pacific
  (UN/POP/EGM-MIG/2008/5) - Richard Bedford
  
  
• Migration and gender in Asia
  (UN/POP/EGM-MIG/2008/6) - Tasneem Siddiqui
  
  
• GCC labour migration governance
  (UN/POP/EGM-MIG/2008/7) - Mohammed Ebrahim Dito
  
  
• Transnational solidarity: migrant-homeland cooperation for development in Asia
  (UN/POP/EGM-MIG/2008/8) - Maruja Asis
  
  

Presentations

• Managing labor migration: Asia and the GFMD - Philip Martin
• Population, migration and development in Asia, with special emphasis on the South Pacific: the impact of migration on population and the MDGs - Jean-Louis Rallu
• Emerging issues in governance of labour migration in Asia Pacific - Manolo Abella
• Transnational solidarity: migrant-homeland cooperation for development in Asia - Maruja Asis
• Migration policies, practices and co-operation mechanisms in the Pacific - Richard Bedford
• Remittances and development in the Pacific: effects on human development - Richard P.C. Brown
• GCC labour migration governance - Mohammed Ebrahim Dito
• Migration data through labour force surveys - Geoffrey Ducanes
• The international migration database - Bela Hovy
• Key trends and issues on international migration in Asia and the Pacific - Keiko Osaki-Tomita
• Migration and gender in Asia - Tasneem Siddiqui
• Migration and development - Ronald Skeldon
• Refugee and asylum flows in Asia and the Pacific - Thomas Vargas
• Levels and Trends of International Migration in Asia and the Pacific - Sabine Henning