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[ASCIt]

Nah, everything in a cage gets let out when you haul it to the depot. I assume it's because they're stored in the cage which, being a container, acts like other containers. They're seperate entities, so you'd need to designate them both to trade, but you can't designate living creatures to be sold unless they're with their cage. See the problem?

[Khenal]

Put them in the military, or have a massive metals industry, or have a massive glass industry, or have a massive textile industry, or power a magma pumpstack with dwarfpower only, or make them all masons and build a huge tower, or...

[Newbunkle]

Make them crew two rows of ballistas that face each other and see which team wins.

[Wannazzaki]

Set them all to stone detailing and smooth your fortress out, leaving one or two legendaries to engrave behind them.

[Noodz]

An idea i still have to apply (because i suffer from severe restartitis) is to wound them to give your doctors some practice. The tricky part is isolating them from the rest of your fortress, in a sealable hospital where they can be left to rot in case you need your useful dorfs elsewhere and/or get tired of microing them.

[Nyxalinth]

Set them all to stone detailing and smooth your fortress out, leaving one or two legendaries to engrave behind them.

I do this, and then many others go in the military.

[Tirion]

Mechanics labors turned on. Massive glass industry, produce trap components (and mechanisms if you run out of stones), trap every tile of your fort

Also, I never have enough haulers

[Shinotsa]

Anything elaborate takes dwarfpower. I asked a question a while ago like this one; Khearn pointed the problem with dorfy solutions to migrant destruction in my sig. The most useful things migrants can do seem to be hauling, fighting, and giving your doctors some practice and I completely support the exploitation, rather than outright destruction of those miserable slaves. Ahem, where was I?

Oh right, be sure to enable masonry on all of your haulers once you have a decent mason and set up a workshop that requires a competent mason. This way your stuff still gets made by a skilled dwarf and constructions (which both require a lot of time and give no masonry experience) get built by the expendables.

If making use of them just feels wrong to you then survival of the fittest can always be liberally applied. Equip migrants with training weapons and release them into an arena with armed goblins. Have one on one fights to see who the strongest truly are, or pit them all against each other at once to see who works better with a team.

Losing may be Fun, but before then migrants can provide loads of fun, Fun, AND ‼FUN‼

[Newbunkle]

Don't forget to have them build the necessary coffins first though.

[Kilroy the Grand]

Water reactors, windmills, waterwheels? Pfffft, who needs those when you got plenty of slave labor and pumpscrews?

[MonkeyHead]

Its really hard to have too many magma smelters, soldiers and wall builders...

[Poindexterity]

make them all masons.
have them spend a year churning out blocks.
build something HUGE.

[Blue_Dwarf]

Make them crew two rows of ballistas that face each other and see which team wins.

Best suggestion so far 

[Tevish Szat]

large migrant waves of useless/deficient skills make an excellent underclass, doing hauling or jobs that your highly skilled industry dwarves can't be bothered with.  Especially when you embark on a megaproject, there really is no limit to how much disposable labor a fortress can use.  no-skill masonry, especially, is needed in vast quantity for above-ground fortress building, as skill seems to have no effect on the assembly speed of walls/floors.  mass-enabling no-skill architecture and mechanics will also help you build traps and machinery in record time, and you don't feel nearly so bad when your inevitable miscalculations get Urist McNoSkill squashed by a cave in, incinerated by magma, or stranded somewhere and dehydrated before you notice.

You can also never have enough soldiers.  Drafting your migrants will not only put them to work, as it were, but will slowly cull their numbers and make interesting dwarves out of the survivors.

[reteip9]

Draft them all into the millitary arm them with goblinite and send them into a suicidal charge against a siege, those who survive and get 1 or more kills are promoted into the regular millitary, those who do not get any kills you can use as slave labor.