Migrants making mark in global workforce: ILO

Migrants are increasingly participating in a globalised economy, notably in the services sectors, according to a report released Wednesday by the ILO. The International Labour Organization shed light on new data which quantifies for the first time the extent to which a global migrant workforce estimated at 150.3 million people -- 44 percent of them women -- is carving a professional niche in the countries receiving them. At a time when mass migration, heightened by the conflict in Syria and econ