This article indicates the circumstances that gave rise to the body of ILO standards designed to protect migrant workers. It explains the origins and the motivations of the universal standards on migrant workers elaborated and supervised in the institutional framework of the International Labour Organization. In this way, it illuminates the background of the UN Convention.
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