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Labour migration

Distribution of migrant domestic workers by broad region, 2013 (female)

Labour migration

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According to the latest available estimates, there were 169 million international migrant workers globally in 2019 and they constituted 4.9 per cent of the global labour force (ILO, 2021). These...

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