World: COVID-19 impacts on the labour migration and mobility of young women and girls in South-East Asia and the Pacific


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Download document (PDF | 4.36 MB) The IOM project “Supporting Brighter Futures: Young Women and Girls and Labour Migration in South-East Asia and the Pacific” resulted in a 2019 publication of the same name. Six experts contributed papers exploring issues that ranged from the role of adolescent and young girls as household income providers and the nexus between migration and education, to human trafficking and migrant smuggling. Collectively the papers paint a complex picture, raising challenging policy questions and highlighting gaps that need to be filled by further research. While the papers address different components of a larger whole, a...