Tag: #Middle East
Articles tagged with #Middle East
When geopolitics becomes lived reality
It is one thing to analyse geopolitics from a distance, it is another to sit at home, phone in hand, watching alerts multiply
We Have No Land, We Are The Land. We Have No Sea, We Are The Sea
Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East make us forget that climate change has also long since claimed its victims. Its geographical effects are inevitably fueling social stress, political tensions and even military violence
History of female (im)mobility in Nepal
A proposal by Nepal’s Immigration Department requiring consent from a guardian and local government for women under the age of 40 travelling to…
Lift the ban on domestic workers
Nepali domestic worker in balcony of a Beirut house. Photo: UPASANA KHADKAShama had a job waiting for her as a domestic worker in Kuwait. But…
Migrating for domestic work
Reassessing Nepal’s ban on domestic work abroad and exploring employment alternatives
Greens from Nepal in Qatar’s desert
Nepal is not just exporting manpower to Qatar now, but also veggies
Good riddance to 2018
MADRID – Sadly, 2018 will not be remembered as a year of political and diplomatic success. Though the international order had already begun to…
Bargaining Power
An estimated 2.5 million Asians every year migrate under work contracts to other countries in the region and beyond. Labour-sending countries…