Tag: #migration
Articles tagged with #migration
Migrant workers in wartime
Across West Asia, Nepalis carry on with their jobs as missiles explode overhead
Nepal’s voters are migrating
Weeks before elections, Nepalis are voting with their feet to migrate and remigrate
Dreaming in phases
As Spain moves to regularise 500,000 undocumented workers in 2026, Nepali migrant who left over 20 years ago shares his experience
Mass migration from Muktikot
Now even women are leaving Nepali village known for seasonal out-migration to India
Still a compulsion, not a choice
Nepal taking strides to ensure better and safer migration but there is a long way to go
Father’s migration, son’s education
Against all odds, a Nepali migrant provides education for his son to become a doctor
The periphery cannot hold
Kesang Tseten’s new film documents how Himalayan communities are falling apart
Who gets to recruit for Malaysia?
Malaysia’s 10-point recruiter selection criteria risks punishing the good migration actors
The first freedom
How we lost sight of our oldest human right — the freedom of movement
Nepal’s unchanging domestic worker saga
On 30th July, World Day against Trafficking in Persons, Nepali Times’ coverage of migration in the last 25 years
Nepal in 2050
If Nepal is to meet its socioeconomic goals in 25 years, it must have improved governance starting yesterday
No country for bovines
An anthropomorphised buffalo’s quest to go abroad is a comedic yet poignant reflection of Nepal’s youth migration
Nepalis in ‘scam camps’ escape to tell the tale
Trafficked and forced by the Chinese mafia in Burma to defraud victims online
Lockdown+5
Nepal clamped its first Covid lockdown on 24 March 2020, and five years later many have forgotten what it was like
The new equaliser
Remittance money sent home by migrant workers annually is at least 30 times the aid Nepal receives
The truth about migration
Despite anti-immigrant sentiment, rich countries owe much of their success to the contributions of migrant workers
‘Hope-mongering’
Is the glass half-full or half-empty? Both.
Pulse of the people
Once again, a survey shows that Nepalis are short-term pessimists and long-term optimists
Migration is development
A migrant worker from Nepal’s Musahar community proves that good migration can be an equaliser of opportunities
Nepalis not so unhappy
Nearly half of the Nepalis are still positive about the direction the country has been going, say there has been significant progress in gender equality
Quake survivors migrate for work
A year after the Jajarkot earthquake on 3 November 2023, survivors move overseas to earn and rebuild homes
Fee-free migration is possible
Responsible recruitment can protect Nepalis headed for overseas jobs. Here is how.
“The most amazing thing about Nepal are its people”
Daniela-Mariana Sezonov Ţane was fascinated with the teachings of the Hindu epics, and studied Hindi at the University of Bucharest before…
MASK
Nepali aerospace engineer pens a children’s book that touches on migration, mental health, racism and identity