ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the status of existing international labor legislation affecting migrants from the region to the developed countries. It is strongly felt that both migrants themselves and the sending governments need to be knowledgeable about this legislation and how it might be used to their advantage. There has been some misunderstanding of the effect that migrations, in their current form, have on the economies of the sending and receiving countries. The effects on development are highly topical for the International Labor Organization (ILO) in that the agency is involved in the collective effort of the United Nations system to promote balanced economic growth on a plank of adequately-trained human resources. In addition to the ILO conventions mentioned, reference should be made to the United Nations International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, adopted by the General Assembly by resolution 45/158 of 18 December 1990.
