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Assessing the Roles and Capacities of Organisations Working on Labour Migration
This study will conduct an in-depth examination of various international, national and local organisations in Nepal, that are working to create a conducive environment for the safe, smooth and just migration of Nepali workers, to understand the different areas of activities, the kind of institutional roles they play, the overlap and collaboration arrangements among them and their contribution or otherwise to furthering the goal of making migration safer for Nepali workers.
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Longitudinal Study on the Experience of Nepali Workers Migrating to South Korea
This study examines and analyses the experiences of Nepali migrant workers for South Korea in different phases of the migration process. The study will assess mental health and wellbeing of migrant workers in different phases of migration process, from enrolment in Korean language class in Nepal through employment in Korea. The study also aims to understand future aspirations, including career choice, of those who do not succeed in migrating to Korea for work.
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No Lean Season
This research aims to experimentally test whether seasonal a migration subsidy programme has positive impacts in addressing seasonal food insecurity in rural Nepal. It will also explore how migration may transform rural, agricultural labour markets by studying the effects of seasonal migration on both rural labour supply and labour demand.
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Study on the Work in Freedom: Transnational Evaluation
This study was part of a larger evaluation project of the Work in Freedom Programme (WiF), funded by the UK Department of International Development (DFID) and implemented by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
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Impact Assessment of ILO Fair Recruitment Intervention between Nepal and Jordan in the Garment Sector
CESLAM collaborated with Tufts University in the impact evaluation of the International Labour Organisation’s Integrated Programme on Fair Recruitment of migrant workers. The impact assessment focused on the Nepal-Jordan corridor and worked with fair labour recruiters.
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Political Economy Analysis of Labour Migration Governance in Nepal
This study unpacked the dynamics of labour migration governance in Nepal’s changing governance landscape following the roll-out of federalism in order to inform the ILO’s DFID-funded Skills for Employment Programme (SEP).
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Promotion of Access to Justice of Migrant Workers
People Forum for Human Rights and Centre for the Study of labour and Mobility jointly conducted research on Access to Justice of Migrant Workers in destination countries.
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Assessing the Economic Contribution of Labour Migration in Developing Countries as Countries of Destination
The aim of ‘Assessing the Economic Contribution of Labour Migration in Developing Countries as Countries of Destination’ (ECLM) was to arrive at a reliable and evidence-based understanding of the economic impact of immigration in 10 low and middle-income countries, including Nepal.
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A Study on the Causes of Women’s Migration to Foreign Employment and Ways for Their Reintegration into the National Labour Market
A Study on the Causes of Women’s Migration to Foreign Employment and Ways for Their Reintegration into the National Labour Market
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Migration and Gendered Landscapes: Adding a Gender Dimension to Cifor’s Research on Mobility
The aim of this project was to produce a peer-reviewed paper through further analysis of the household survey and qualitative gathered during CIFOR and Social Science Baha’s collaborative research on gender, migration and forest governance, which examined the nexus between transnational migratory flows, gender equity and the governance of forests through case studies from Nepal. It also had another objective of conducting an analysis of policies related to the land-use change to understand how they consider issues related to migration and whether they are conducive to leveraging migration and remittances for investment in land.
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Home Safe: Evidence on Community
This objective of the study was to explore the nature and effects of violence against returned WMWs and their family members as well as to investigate the informal and formal community responses to gender-based violence (GBV) among them. The findings were to inform intervention designs targeted at enhancing the community’s engagement for the prevention of GBV against returned WMWs, at both the family and community levels.
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Migration Opportunities and Challenges
The purpose of the study was to broaden knowledge on the experience of labour migration for Nepali women. The study examined various factors surrounding i) the decision to migrate for labour, ii) the decision to return to Nepal, and 3) the process of reintegrating into the Nepali labour market. The primary objective of the study was to identify personal, community and institutional level factors that motivate or compel women to migrate abroad for labour and to return to Nepal after a period of labour migration.
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Socio-Political Costs and Effects of the Remittance Economy
Remittances represent a significant, albeit still relatively recent, the flow of resources that accrues to communities in a decentralised manner and their complex distributive effects remain little understood beyond the increase in purchasing power of recipients.
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Monitoring of Migration of Health Workers from Nepal
The main objective of this assignment was to provide an overview of the current situation relating to the stock and flow of migrant Nepali health care workers. It identified: i) the major trends characterising international migration of health personnel from Nepal; ii) international as well as national frameworks and mechanisms regulating the migration of health workers from Nepal; iii) the main drivers involved in the migration of health workers;
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Study on Impacts of Migration on Forestry Sector, Forest Management and Forestry Institution
Given the large scale of out-migration taking place all over the country, there is no sector in Nepal that remains unaffected by it and this is true for the forestry sector as well. Migration en masse and remittance migrants sent back have had several implications on land use, labour relations, rural livelihoods and institutions.
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Baseline Survey for an Action Research to Build the Adaptive Capacity of the Migrant Sending Households in the Flood Affected Rural Communities in the Udayapur District, Nepal
As part of the larger action research meant to help build the adaptive capacity of migrant-sending households by leveraging the benefits of migration while mitigating against some of the risks, the overall objective of this study was support the development of mountain rural livelihoods in the context of socio-economic and climate change, and the conservation of the ecosystem assets and services in Nepal.
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Morbidity and Mortality amongst Migrant Workers
Year of Publication: 2015
Published by: CESLAM
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