Tag: #labour migration
Articles tagged with #labour migration
My father’s son
A son follows in the father's footsteps to become a migrant worker, goes viral with a poem dedicated to the sacrifices of the father
Living and leaving
Nepali migrant workers want to live and just get by not only in Nepal but overseas as well
Compensation for death of Nepali worker in Japan
Tokyo High Court ordered $250,000 in damages to cook who died in police custody 8 years ago
Nepal, Bangladesh reject Malaysian conditions
Ball back in Malaysia court on its strict new migrant labour recruitment criteria
Nepali migrant workers rebuild lives
How survivors of the earthquake on 3 November 2023 have found new hope for the future in Malaysia
The flower guy
A Nepali returns from Korea to expand family’s horticulture business
The truth about migration
Despite anti-immigrant sentiment, rich countries owe much of their success to the contributions of migrant workers
Ban on female migrant workers to be lifted
Nepal must recognise and protect its undocumented female domestics in West Asia while legalising migration
Migrating with the music of Nepal
Two migrant workers take along their flute and shehnai as they leave for work overseas
Not just financial, but social remittances
Nepal’s migrant workers need better guidance to make the most of their time overseas for career growth
"The first migrant worker from my village"
Before mobile phones, Nepali migrants sent cassette tapes back and forth to communicate
Quake survivors migrate for work
A year after the Jajarkot earthquake on 3 November 2023, survivors move overseas to earn and rebuild homes
“I have lived a simple, boring life”
Nepali Times resumes its Diaspora Diaries column, of which this is the 51st instalment
Safer migration for women
Nepal is a remittance economy, but it is mostly male migrants who get credit. What about the women?
Karnali to Korea dream dashed in Kathmandu
Desperation to migrate collides with excessive police force
Nepali on the move
Migrant worker returns from Jordan, but now wants to go to Europe for the sake of his children
The Malaysia-Nepal migrant scam nexus
Rinji Rai, 47, had been in the labour recruitment business for two decades, connecting Nepali workers with employment overseas. His Marvelous…
Nepali bonds with racing camel in Qatar
But his skills in training camels and fluency in Arabic have not been much use back home
Nepal’s nurse flight
If nurse salaries and work conditions do not improve, we will have to ask why nurses stay, rather than why they leave.
Inconvenient truths
Instead of making things easy for its citizens, the Nepali state excels at putting up obstacles every step of the way
Nepali family spread across Kuwait, Cyprus, UAE
Two generations of a migrant family are yet to break out of the cycle of poverty
No country for young men
For four high schoolers in Nepal, overseas work is the only way out of their station in life
Making overseas migration better
The RSP has a responsibility to fulfil its pledge to improve the wellbeing of Nepali migrant workers
My uncle died in Qatar
US-based Nepali physician on why he is not watching the FIFA World Cup in Qatar this year