Centre for the Study of Labour and Mobility

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The article examines the increasing trend of labour migration from Nepal to the Gulf countries and its documentation in the existing literature. The authors analyse the patterns, reassess estimates or ‘guesstimates’ of ...

The chapter examines the migration-development nexus in light of post-conflict state-building efforts. It notes how the contribution from migration during the conflict and immediate post-conflict time was used haphazardly and viewed solely ...

This article examines the relationship between growing institutional structures and the migration of trained healthcare professionals, nurses in this case, from Nepal to the UK. Through case studies, the author reveals how ...

The study discusses the multi-local livelihoods adopted by conflict-induced internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the background of the government’s proposal to rehabilitate them in their places of origin. It is based on ...

The article reviews information on the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and behavioural networking to examine the role of population mobility in spreading HIV across the Indo-Nepal border. Documents were collected through a systematic search of ...

Increased attention to the development potential of international migration has led to calls for greater global cooperation and for industrial countries to consider temporary worker programs and other options for increasing the ...

The article is centred on the experiences of high-caste Nepali migrant workers in India, while briefly describing their migratory processes. It particularly focuses on migrants in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, in ...

The article assesses the role of remittances in the national economy and demonstrates the tremendous impact of the flow of foreign earnings on Nepal’s economic development. With 107 countries now opened up ...

International labor migration is an increasingly important livelihood strategy in Nepal. There is little documentation of the movements of migrant workers or of their remittances. The present article examines two projects that ...

This article looks at voluntary emigration from Kandebash VDC of Baglung district, Nepal, to India and other countries and the causes and long-term impact of such mobility at the local level. The ...

The Nepalis from the neighbouring kingdom of Nepal, who have been migrating to Northeast India since the colonial times have long integrated into the multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society of the region. Settled in almost ...

The paper assesses the relative deprivation theory of migration in the setting of the Chitwan Valley by using data from the Chitwan Valley Family Study, 1996. The author begins with a presupposition ...

Several studies have shown an association between mobility and HIV infection. In this study, we examined the prevalence of HIV infection among migrant wormigrant workers working in Nepal and Indian cities. A ...

This paper examines Nepali migrants’ vulnerability to HIV/sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and their possible role in causing the epidemic in far western Nepal. From August to October 2000, six focus group discussions among 53 returned ...

The paper measures the seroprevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and syphilis, and to assess the behavioural risk factors for these infections among migrant-returnees and non-migrants in far western Nepal. methods In April 2001, ...

This article assesses the impact of globalisation on migration and the risks of being trafficked. The paper explores how South Asian countries, in particular India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, experience the rise of ...

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