overseas-workers

Mountain to desert to ocean

Nepali overseas worker rises up the ranks from cleaner to manager on a cruise ship

Wounded in the line of duty

A Nepali factory worker in Malaysia loses a limb but gets help from colleagues and both governments

“I went to earn and learn”

Former policeman seeks his fortune in the Gulf and returns to Nepal to start a business

‘Used and thrown’

Nepali guards who protected British forces in Afghanistan still face unemployment and threat of deportation

Jenna Mae Biedscheid

Caring for her own and others

A mother who raised her own (and her employer's) children now wants to open a Nepali restaurant in Turkey

Baking as a metaphor for life

Finding work overseas has been the icing on the cake for this passionate Nepali baker

Nepal town to ban mothers migrating

Nepal has experimented with different kinds of restrictions on the mobility of its women migrant workers: age bans, blanket bans, country specific bans,...

Upasana Khadka

South Asia’s migrants share problems, share solutions

Regional cooperation needed to support migrants with problems in countries where they work

Upasana Khadka

More remittance, more than remittance

Remittances from Nepali workers abroad have continued to defy expectations. They have risen to Rs729.02 billion, a 16.5% increase from the same...

More remittance, more than remittance

Remittances from Nepali workers abroad have continued to defy expectations. They have risen to Rs729.02 billion, a 16.5% increase from the same...

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