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Published on 18 December 2025

Transversal Topics

Learn more about transversal topics such as gender and migration, migrants' vocies and the private sector involvement in migration.

Overview

Syrian trainees in a textile atelier in Turkey

Gender and Migration

Migration as well as displacement are deeply gendered experiences. The gendered aspects of migration and displacement therefore need to be considered throughout the migration cycle.

Female vendor at a market in the refugee camp Kakuma in Kenya

Private Sector Involvement

Throughout the migration cycle, the private sector plays a critical role in migrants’ access to safe and decent work and in unlocking the development potential of migration.

Woman engaged in the empowerment of youth in the Kakuma regugee camp

Migrants Voices and Empowerment

How we perceive and speak about migrants and migration plays a fundamental role in guaranteeing equality and the protection of human rights of migrants and forcibly displaced persons. That’s why migrants’ voices are critical.

Contact us

Migration and Forced Displacement
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)
Eichenweg 5
Switzerland - 3003 Bern