National labour migration management assessment: ETHIOPIA

Type :
Reports
Language :
English
Publisher :
IOM

Fueled by push and pull factors, including socioeconomic factors, labour migration ‒ in particular from Ethiopia – has been a relatively recent phenomenon. The migration is in particular to Middle Eastern countries and largely irregular. However, labour externalization appears to be insufficiently supported by the data and by institutional and legal regimes. Available data are largely restricted to formal channels of exporting, remittance receipt and diaspora investment. The lack of sufficient reliable information in relation to irregular migration for employment purposes, human trafficking and smuggling, alternative remittance and investment modalities, and the impact of remittances on household consumption, savings and economic development, impedes the development of informed and coordinated policy and strategic interventions. No household survey focuses exclusively on migration.

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