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Impact of COVID-19 on Migrant Bhariyas In Darjeeling Town
Year of Publication: 2022
Published by: CESLAM
This paper looks at the socio-economic impact of the pandemic on Nepali migrants working as porters in and around the Himalayan town of Darjeeling. It seeks to understand their coping mechanisms during ...
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Impact of COVID-19 on Nepali Migrant Workers: A Case Study of Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Malaysia
Year of Publication: 2022
Published by: CESLAM
The study explores experiences and difficulties encountered by Nepali migrant workers n Malaysia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Migration and COVID-19 in Context: Labor Migration and the Agriculture Sector in Nepal
Year of Publication: 2022
International labor migration is the cornerstone of household livelihoods in rural Nepal. The country receives remittances equivalent to about a quarter of its gross domestic product (GDP) annually (WB 2020). In the ...
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Assessment of Outreach and Engagement with Prospective Migrants by the Agencies Recruiting Labourers for Foreign Employment
Year of Publication: 2022
This study was conducted to identify the gaps in policies and practices of labour recruitment in Nepal and assess the outreach and engagement of major formal labour intermediaries, private recruitment agencies (PRAs) ...
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A Media Analysis of Changes in International Human Trafficking Routes from Nepal
Year of Publication: 2022
This study examined the media portrayal of different actors involved in human trafficking from Nepal to understand the reported changes in international routes of human trafficking from Nepal after 2015.
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Labour Migration: Nepal in Regional and Global Processes
Year of Publication: 2022
Published by: CESLAM
Migration has a significant impact on all societies in this increasingly interconnected world. It plays a crucial part in the economic and social development of both the countries of origin and destination.1 ...
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वैदेशिक रोजगारी शासनको स्थानीयकरणमा चुनौती
Year of Publication: 2022
कतिपय श्रमिकको केसमा स्वास्थ्य परीक्षणको रिपोर्टको निश्चितताका लागि भिसा सेन्टरहरूले कन्फर्मिटी टेस्ट गर्न लगाउँछन्, जसको रिपोर्ट आउन महिनौं लाग्ने गरेको छ, जसबाट ऋणको जोहो गरेर प्रक्रिया अगाडि बढाएकाहरू रोजगारीमा जानबाट वञ्चित हुनुपरेको ...
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Seasonal Poverty and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Year of Publication: 2021
Poor populations in low-income countries are likely to suffer the worst of the economic fallout from the COVID-19 crisis. 75% of the world’s poor reside in rural agrarian areas where livelihoods fluctuate ...
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COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Year of Publication: 2021
Widespread acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines is crucial for achieving sufficient immunization coverage to end the global pandemic, yet few studies have investigated COVID-19 vaccination attitudes in lower-income countries, where large-scale vaccination is ...
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Rapid Assessment of the Impact of COVID-19 on Private Recruitment Agencies in Nepal
Year of Publication: 2021
A number of policy decisions relating to the private recruitment agencies (PRAs) have been made in Nepal, and there have been some news reports of these decisions benefiting the agencies. However, there ...
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Nepali Migration to Japan and Korea: Converging Ends, Diverging Paths, and Contrasting Effects
Year of Publication: 2021
Published by: CESLAM
Japan and South Korea hold the same goal of preventing unskilled foreigners from settling down while implementing different immigration policies. This paper documents the migration experiences of Nepali workers in the two ...
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Early Experience of Migration Challenges under the covid19 Pandemic
Year of Publication: 2020
The seven countries of the AGRUMIG project – China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand – are all severely affected by the rupture in migration patterns. The impacts are a complex ...
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COVID-19 and Nepali Labour Migrants: Impacts and Responses
Year of Publication: 2020
Published by: CESLAM
The pandemic caused by the coronavirus disease, COVID-19, has had enormous repercussions as a global health and safety risk and it has also reshaped the socio-economic and political landscapes. The highly infectious ...
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लकडाउनमा आत्महत्या र यसले उब्जाएका प्रश्न
Year of Publication: 2020
नेपाली समाजमा छोरीको स्थान परिभाषित गर्ने सामाजिक–सांस्कृतिक सन्दर्भ तथा मान्यताका कारण केटाहरूको तुलनामा केटीहरू आत्महत्याको उच्च जोखिममा छन् ।
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Failing Our Migrant Workers
Year of Publication: 2020
One would have expected the present government to be more attuned to the challenges faced by workers in destination countries.
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हचुवामा उद्धार र घरफिर्ती
Year of Publication: 2020
पहिलोपटक विदेश गएका तथा केही महिनामै रोजगारी गुमाएका र रोजगारदाताबाट टिकट खर्च पनि नपाएकाहरूले फर्किंदा लाग्ने ५० हजारदेखि १ लाखसम्मको खर्च उठाउन सक्लान् भनी आशा गर्नु अमानवीय हो ।
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Nationalism, Migration and the Impending Job Crisis
Year of Publication: 2020
Communist parties have always disliked the idea of out-migration yet have done little to help Nepalis stay back.
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