Bayview Park Hotel, Manila, Philippines
December 16-18, 2004

1. To provide a venue to discuss and analyze issues and concerns that impact on OFWs and their families,
   
2. To provide a venue for migrant NGOs, international organizations, and government organizations to present their programs and services, in order to assess their impact and responsiveness to the OFWs and their families,
   
3. To provide an avenue to initiate and sustain networking and solidarity between and among OFWs and with other stakeholders,
   
4. To provide a forum for a pro-active exchange of information among various stakeholders and to define and forge transnational cooperation and other exchanges,
   
5. To elaborate a plan of action to be presented to the Philippine Government for implementation towards shaping the future of Filipino labor migration.

1. International conventions and migrants’ rights/migrants’ rights education
   
2. Philippine GOs’ commitments for the OFWs’ welfare
   
3. Gender dimensions of Philippine labor migration
   
4. Unauthorized migration and trafficking
   
5. Emerging trends in the global labor market/the role of the migration industry
   
6. Migration/integration policies of receiving countries
   
7. OFWs and overseas Filipinos as political actors (Absentee Voting Law)
   
8. Dual citizenship
   
9. Reintegration programs
   
10. Transnational linkages (Good practices and solidarity projects)
    
11. Filipino migrants and transnationals as culture bearers (i.e., as bearers of Filipino culture abroad; as bearers of other cultures in the Philippines)
    
12. Social costs of migration