Female Migrants: bridging the gaps throughout the life cycle

Selected papers of the UNFPA-IOM Expert Group Meeting, New York, 2-3- May 2006

Published by: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), 2006
Via: Eldis

This is a collection of papers that came out of an expert group meeting organised by the UNFPA and IOM meeting on 2-3 May 2006 entitled “Female migrants: bridging the gaps throughout the life cycle”. The aim was to formulate a set of recommendations for action by governments, international organisations and civil society, as a contribution to the High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development to mainstream female migrants’ needs and rights into the agenda.

Various issues were discussed at the meeting, including the growing numbers of women migrants and the contribution they are playing in maintaining their families through remittances and the empowering potential of migration, and the negative aspects associated with migration, including trafficking and exploitation.