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Workers across Asia are returning to overseas employment as the pandemic recedes. Photo: Aleksei Zaitcev

COVID-19 | Social development and protection | Social protection - labor and employment

Workers Are Heading Back Overseas: Here’s How Governments Should Respond

… abroad totaled 784,000, the highest number since 2018. Upward labor migration trends are also seen in Pakistan, the Philippines, and Sri … showed impressive trends, largely thanks to measures to ease inward migration introduced by the governments of Australia and New Zealand … the pre-pandemic level. These recoveries are driving an optimistic migration outlook for the full year 2022 and beyond from governments of …

Aiko Kikkawa, Raymond Gaspar