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Governing Labour Migration in Nepal: An Analysis of Existing Policies and Institutional Mechanisms

Governing Labour Migration in Nepal looks at the legal and policy framework that regulates migrant labour originating in Nepal. It examines the country’s laws related to foreign employment, bilateral agreements signed with ...

What is the prevalence of and associations with forced labour experiences among male migrants from Dolakha, Nepal? Findings from a crosssectional study of returnee migrants

Objectives Growing numbers of people are migrating outside their country for work, and many experience precarious conditions, which have been linked to poor physical and mental health. While international dialogue on human ...

When the Men Are Away: Migration and Women’s Participation in Nepal’s Community Forestry

Studies of migration and gender have focused mostly on changes at the household level, where they have found women’s experience to be mixed, with greater autonomy in decision-making but also a greater ...

Migrants with mobiles

Efficient and wider circulation of required information across the country is critical in ensuring informed, safe and fair foreign recruitment practices, and also to mitigate the existing trend of illegal mobility of ...

Lessons from prospective migrant women’s participation in the Work in Freedom community intervention activities in Nepal

This brief offers research findings from prospective women migrants in Morang, Chitwan and Rupandehi, three districts of the Work in Freedom (WiF) intervention in Nepal. It presents findings on prospective migrant women’s ...

नेपालमा वर्क इन फ्रिडम समुदाय हस्तक्षेप गतिविधिमा सम्भावित महिला प्रवासीको सहभागिताबाट सिकिएका पाठ

Making Migration Free: An analysis of Nepal’s ‘free-visa, free-ticket’ scheme

This chapter seeks to understand and elucidate on the underlying aspects of the ‘zero-cost migration policy’ of Nepal, more precisely the ‘free-visa, free-ticket’ scheme, and its implications on the foreign employment sector, ...

Migration of Health Workers from Nepal

This report provides an overview of the current situation relating to the stock and outflow of Nepali health care workers to third countries. Presenting the findings of a survey with undergraduate medical ...

Labour Migration and the Remittance Economy: The Socio-Political Impact

Based on a study conducted in five districts, this report looks at the impact of labour migration on the economy, society, and politics at the community level. It provides an insight into ...

Double-edged words

Exposure to liberal democratic values of the West does not necessarily translate into a similar outlook among Nepali immigrants.

दोलखा, नेपालबाट हुने श्रम प्रवासनका बारेमा हामीलाई के थाहा छ ?

What do we know about labour migration in Dolakha, Nepal?

This briefing note offers new evidence on labour migration in Dolakha, a district in the Central Development Region of Nepal. This study is part of a larger programme of research on labour ...

Belated realisation

Protection of the rights and safety concerns of human participants in research are key concerns that have given rise to discussions about research ethics.

Labouring Under Fire: Nepali Security Contractors in Afghanistan

This paper explores some of the repercussions of Nepali labour migration in times of conflict, arguing that security contracting shares much with other forms of migratory labour but also that the ...

Foreign lives, Nepali bodies

At the most, Nepal can refer to commitments made by destination countries when signing up to different international conventions and treaties.

Give migrants their due

The fact that remittances make up nearly 30 percent of GDP, which continues to rise, gives a sense of the huge contribution made by migrant labourers.

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Governing Labour Migration in Nepal looks at the legal and policy framework that regulates migrant labour originating in Nepal. It examines the country’s laws related to foreign employment, bilateral agreements signed with ...

Objectives Growing numbers of people are migrating outside their country for work, and many experience precarious conditions, which have been linked to poor physical and mental health. While international dialogue on human ...

Studies of migration and gender have focused mostly on changes at the household level, where they have found women’s experience to be mixed, with greater autonomy in decision-making but also a greater ...

Efficient and wider circulation of required information across the country is critical in ensuring informed, safe and fair foreign recruitment practices, and also to mitigate the existing trend of illegal mobility of ...

This brief offers research findings from prospective women migrants in Morang, Chitwan and Rupandehi, three districts of the Work in Freedom (WiF) intervention in Nepal. It presents findings on prospective migrant women’s ...

This chapter seeks to understand and elucidate on the underlying aspects of the ‘zero-cost migration policy’ of Nepal, more precisely the ‘free-visa, free-ticket’ scheme, and its implications on the foreign employment sector, ...

This report provides an overview of the current situation relating to the stock and outflow of Nepali health care workers to third countries. Presenting the findings of a survey with undergraduate medical ...

Based on a study conducted in five districts, this report looks at the impact of labour migration on the economy, society, and politics at the community level. It provides an insight into ...

Exposure to liberal democratic values of the West does not necessarily translate into a similar outlook among Nepali immigrants.

This briefing note offers new evidence on labour migration in Dolakha, a district in the Central Development Region of Nepal. This study is part of a larger programme of research on labour ...

Protection of the rights and safety concerns of human participants in research are key concerns that have given rise to discussions about research ethics.

This paper explores some of the repercussions of Nepali labour migration in times of conflict, arguing that security contracting shares much with other forms of migratory labour but also that the ...

At the most, Nepal can refer to commitments made by destination countries when signing up to different international conventions and treaties.

The fact that remittances make up nearly 30 percent of GDP, which continues to rise, gives a sense of the huge contribution made by migrant labourers.

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