Managing Migration

Lessons from the Philippines

Bibliographic Data

ID23522244
AuthorsNeil G Ruiz
Year2008
Pages1-5
Publication date2008-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
PublisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1596/11016
OpenAlexW1927958307
LanguageEN
Citations received11

This note provides a glimpse of the \n institutions built to manage migration in the Philippines. \n It describes how one country of origin government helps its \n migrants by regulating overseas employment recruitment, \n informing migrants of available resources abroad through a \n mandatory deployment process, providing protection and \n representation through a migrant welfare fund and absentee \n voting, and developing recording mechanisms to understand \n migrants' needs. Managing migration also comes with a \n price and governments need to develop a coordinated strategy \n to sustain such endeavors.

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