EU/EC sources

Frontex – EU agency based in Warsaw, which coordinates the operational cooperation between Member States in the field of border security. http://www.frontex.europa.eu/

MISSOC – Mutual Information System on Social Protection in the EU Member States and the EEA: comparative tables on social protection. http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/social_protection/missoc_tables_en.htm

Eurofound – European Foundation of Living and Working Conditions: information, advice and expertise on living and working conditions, industrial relations (work–life balance, social cohesion). http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/

European Observatory on the Social Situation and Demography – four multi-disciplinary networks of experts established in 2005 to analyse social and demographic trends and to inform the Commission's work on the social situation – Demography; Social Inclusion & Income Distribution; Social Capital and participation; Health Status & Living Conditions.

http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/spsi/european_observatory_en.htm

CLANDESTINO – Undocumented Migration: Counting the Uncountable Data and Trends Across Europe – an interdisciplinary EC-funded research project which ran between 1 September 2007 and 31 August 2009 with the purpose of supporting policy makers in designing and implementing appropriate policies regarding undocumented migration. Among other things, the website hosts a database on numbers and estimates of irregular migration in Europe.

http://clandestino.eliamep.gr/about/

EUROSTAT – the official statistical body of the European Commission. www.europa.eu.int/comm./eurostat

ESPAnet – European Network for Social Policy Analysis, an association of academics involved or interested in the analysis of social policy in Europe. Main URL: http://www.espanet.org/

ESPAnet organises annual conferences, the papers of which are available for download from http://www.socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk/espanet/annual_conferences2/past_annual_conferences

EU/EC directives

Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on services in the internal market.

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32006L0123:EN:HTML

The Directive on services in the internal market creates a single market for services within the European Union. On this basis, domestic, migrant workers from A8 countries provide a service as (1) entrepreneurs (“freedom of establishment”) or (2) on a temporary basis as posted workers in EU member states (e.g. Germany) where free movement of workers does not apply for new A8 member states.

In addition, the following directives provide the basis for national laws against gender/ethnic discrimination in the EU member states:

Council Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000L0043:EN:HTML

Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000L0078:EN:HTML

Directive 2002/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2002 amending Council Directive 76/207/EEC on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32002L0073:EN:HTML

Council Directive 2004/113/EC of 13 December 2004 implementing the principle of equal treatment between men and women in the access to and supply of goods and services

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32004L0113:EN:HTML

ILO sources

http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/natlex_browse.home

Database of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation, maintained by the ILO's International Labour Standards Department

http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/english/convdisp1.htm

Database of international labour standards

http://labordoc.ilo.org/

The ILO Library's database contains references and full text access to the literature on all aspects of the world of work, sustainable livelihood, work-related aspects of economic and social development, human rights and technological change. It covers publications by major research centres, international/regional organisations, labour administrations and NGOs, as well as references to articles selected regularly from over 500 journals. Approximately 500 new records are added each month. It also contains all ILO publications since 1919. Special attention is paid to developing and transition countries; there is a focus on empirical literature, although some material on labour economics, gender economics and welfare economics is included.

OECD sources

Reconciliation of Work and Family Life in OECD countries

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/29/26/36939331.pdf

Babies and Bosses – Reconciling Work and Family Life (Vol. 4): Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom

http://www.oecd.org/document/35/0,3343,en_2649_201185_34905443_1_1_1_1,00.html

Babies and Bosses – Reconciling Work and Family Life (Vol. 3): New Zealand, Portugal, Switzerland

http://www.oecd.org/document/63/0,3343,en_2649_201185_31588543_1_1_1_1,00.html

Babies and Bosses – Reconciling Work and Family Life: A Synthesis of Findings for OECD Countries

http://www.oecd.org/document/45/0,3343,en_2649_34819_39651501_1_1_1_1,00.html

Health Workforce and Migration Project

www.oecd.org/health/workforce

OECD Social Issues/Migration/Health Library

This is a subscription service providing print copies and/or online access to all OECD publications and databases on social issues, migration and health from 1998 onwards (including International Migration Statistics, Social Expenditure Statistics, Health Data databases, about 20 new books per year on related topics).

http://www.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/display.asp?lang=EN&sf1=identifiers&st1=sub-16141s1

WHO sources

Health topics / health workforce

http://www.who.int/topics/health_workforce/en/

European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

A partnership between the WHO Regional Office for Europe, the governments of several EU countries and other institutions. It aims to ‘promote evidence-based health policy-making through comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the dynamics of health care systems in Europe’.

http://www.euro.who.int/observatory

The Observatory has a sub-page with publications, including detailed descriptions of health care systems and scholarly analyses of health systems and policies.

http://www.euro.who.int/observatory/publications/20020522_1

IOM sources

International Migration Law Database (Norms and instruments regulating migration at the international, regional and national levels)

http://www.imldb.iom.int/section.do

IOM Working Group on Gender Issues (WGGI) – http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/about-iom/organizational-structure/iom-gender

The WGGI aims at mainstreaming gender aspects in IOM's own internal work, but also provides publications of general interest on gender and migration, including an informative newsletter (‘Gender and Migration News Bulletin’) appearing at irregular intervals – http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/about-iom/organizational-structure/iom-gender/key-documents

OSCE sources

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has compiled the extensive Guide on Gender-Sensitive Labour Migration Policies.

http://www.osce.org/item/37689.html

The website provides access to databases on the following fields:

Tolerance and non-discrimination: TANDIS http://tandis.odihr.pl/

International norms and standards relating to specific human dimension issues: Legislationline.org, http://legislationline.org/

Gender topics: http://legislationline.org/topics/topic/7

Migration topics: http://legislationline.org/topics/topic/10

The sub-page on Gender Equality contains links to various documents relating to the topic across the OSCE web site: http://www.osce.org/odihr/13374.html

Although the OSCE website does not provide any structured access to its publications relating to issues involving migration, gender and domestic work, it does have a search function that leads to a wealth of documents with the required keywords (all in PDF format): http://www.osce.org/search/