Piyasiri Wickramasekara

Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA)

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Labour Migration in South Asia: A Review of Issues, Policies and Practices

International Migration Working Paper No. 108
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 21 Aug 2011
Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA)
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Circular Migration: A Triple Win or a Dead End

Global Union Research Network Discussion Paper No. 15
Number of pages: 116 Posted: 10 May 2011
Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA)
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Bilateral Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding on Migration of Low Skilled Workers: A Review

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 24 Aug 2015
Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA)
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international migration, labour migration, migrant worker, low skilled worker, bilateral labour agreement, bilateral memoranda of understanding, migrant rights

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Something is Better than Nothing: Enhancing the Protection of Indian Migrant Workers Through Bilateral Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 02 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2015
Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA)
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Effective Return and Reintegration of Migrant Workers With Special Focus on ASEAN Member States

the ILO ASEAN Triangle Project, International Labour Organization, Bangkok, 2019
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 26 Sep 2020
Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA)
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Migrant Workers, Return Migration, Reintegration of Return Migrants, Temporary Migration, ASEAN, ASEAN Migration

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International Labour Migration: The Missing Link in Globalization

DOSSIER Transnationalismus & Migration, p. 78, 2011
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 20 Aug 2011
Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA)
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international labour migration, globalization, migration trends, barriers to mobility, global migration governance regime, migrant workers

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Regulation of the Recruitment Process and Reduction of Migration Costs: Comparative Analysis of South Asia

Number of pages: 90 Posted: 12 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2015
Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA)
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Labour Migration for Decent Work in Afghanistan: Issues and Challenges

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 15 Feb 2014
Piyasiri Wickramasekara and Nilim Baruah
Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA) and International Labour Organization (ILO) - Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
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Diasporas and Development: Perspectives on Definitions and Contributions

Perspectives on Labour Migration Working Paper No. 9
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 11 May 2011
Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA)
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Diasporas, diversity, definitions, estimates of the diaspora, diaspora contributions, skilled and low-skilled diasporas, development

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Decent Work, Youth Employment and Migration in Asia

International Labour Organization International Migration Paper, No. 13, 2013
Number of pages: 134 Posted: 11 Mar 2013
Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA)
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youth employment, labour migration, international migration, employment policy, migration policy, young worker, migrant worker, decent work, labour legislation, good practices, Asia

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International Migration and Development: Myths and Facts

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 16 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2015
Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA)
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international migration, migration and development, migration myths, migration facts, irregular migration, migrants and native jobs, migrants and welfare benefits

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Review of the Government-to-Government Mechanism for the Employment of Bangladeshi Workers in the Malaysian Plantation Sector

International Labour Organization (2016)
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 31 May 2016 Last Revised: 02 May 2018
Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA)
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migrant workers, plantation worker, palm oil plantation, bilateral labour agreement, bilateral MOU on migration, recruitment, government to Government recruitment mechanism, state intervention, Bangladesh, Malaysia

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Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas: Assessment of South Asian Countries

Working Paper No. 2015/02, Working Papers in Trade and Development, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Feb 2015
Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA)
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Development, South Asia, labour migration, mainstreaming migration, Integrating migration, development agendas, Gulf migration, remittances, return migration, diasporas

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International Labour Organization (ILO) and Broader Civil Society: An Uneasy Relationship? (Presentation Slides)

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 12 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2015
Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA)
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International Labour Organization, ILO, Non-governmental organizations, NGOs, civil society, social partners, tripartism

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Evidence Base for Labour Migration Analysis and Policy (Presentation Slides)

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 23 Dec 2016
Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA)
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labour migration statistics, migration information, evidence base for migration policy making, migration data initiatives

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Engaging the Diaspora and Migrant Workers for Home Country Development: Diaspora Finance and Remittances

ADBI, OECD and ILO (eds.) Labor Migration in Asia: Increasing the Development Impact of Migration through Finance and Technology., Asian Development Bank Institute, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and International Labour Organization, 2018.
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 17 May 2018
Piyasiri Wickramasekara, Evalyn Tennant and Patrick Taran
Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA), Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA) and Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA)
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diaspora finance, migration and development, diaspora bonds, engaging the diaspora, remittances, financial inclusion, remittance-backed financial products, migrant workers

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Good Practices and Provisions in Multilateral and Bilateral Labor Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding

Assisted by L.K. Ruhunage, International Labour Organization, Dhaka, 2018
Number of pages: 120 Posted: 25 Sep 2020
Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA)
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Good Practices, Good Provisions, Bilateral Labor Agreements, BLAs, MOUs, Memoranda of Understanding, Migration Governance, Migrant Rights, Migration and Development, Bangladesh, ILO

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COVID-19 Pandemic and Migrant Workers in Malaysia and Singapore with Special Focus on South Asian Workers

Posted: 10 Mar 2022
Piyasiri Wickramasekara
Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA)

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COVID-19, South Asian migrant workers, Malaysia, Singapore, pandemic response