Dr. Nasra Shah attended a meeting of MAG of the ILO for the Arab region under its FAIRWAY project on November 14-15, 2022, in Beirut. Dr. Shah has been a member of this Advisory Group for the last seven years and has made various contributions to it over the years both in her capacity as a migration researcher and a scientific co-director of the Gulf Labor Markets and Migration Program (GLMM).
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