(h) The term “self-employed worker” refers to a migrant worker
who is engaged in a remunerated activity otherwise than under a contract of employment and who earns his or her living through this activity
normally working alone or together with members of his or her family,
and to any other migrant worker recognized as self-employed by applicable legislation of the State of employment or bilateral or multilateral
agreements.
Article 3
The present Convention shall not apply to:
(a) Persons sent or employed by international organizations and
agencies or persons sent or employed by a State outside its territory to
perform official functions, whose admission and status are regulated by
general international law or by specific international agreements or conventions;
(b) Persons sent or employed by a State or on its behalf outside
its territory who participate in development programmes and other cooperation programmes, whose admission and status are regulated by
agreement with the State of employment and who, in accordance with
that agreement, are not considered migrant workers;
(c) Persons taking up residence in a State different from their
State of origin as investors;
(d) Refugees and stateless persons, unless such application is provided for in the relevant national legislation of, or international instruments in force for, the State Party concerned;
(e)
Students and trainees;
(f) Seafarers and workers on an offshore installation who have
not been admitted to take up residence and engage in a remunerated
activity in the State of employment.
Article 4
For the purposes of the present Convention the term “members of
the family” refers to persons married to migrant workers or having with
them a relationship that, according to applicable law, produces effects
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