A Malayalam TV show has helped track down as many as 530 missing migrant workers in the Gulf. For the families of the missing, the show is a saviour A cousin’s sudden suicide within days of taking up an engineer’s job in Muscat saw Rafeek Ravuther wake up to the dark side of Gulf migration. […]
Category: Migrant Labor
Unlike other countries in West Asia, Jordan lacks petrodollars. In 1996, an agreement with the US gave the country preferential duty-free and quota-free access to the American market. This was the first such agreement the US ever had with an Arab nation and saw the establishment of Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZ) – essentially, industrial zones created […]
If you listen to the migrant workers attentively, you will realize that despite not being dangerous they themselves are in danger unfortunately, and illogically! Millions of Bangladeshi migrant workers have been working sincerely in different sectors in many countries. They are sending foreign remittance worth billions of taka to Bangladesh. But it is unfortunate that […]
Despite having a valid passport and visa, Bangladeshi migrant workers are facing difficult times in Malaysia. The Ringgit’s value has dropped and the number of illegal migrants has increased; so have their suffering. They’ve spent a lot of money to come here but suggest it might not be worth it. (As broadcast on Ekattor TV, […]
Among the factors dissuading Nepalis from working in Malaysia is widespread harassment and robberies by locals After getting his boarding pass for a Kathmandu-bound plane, Basanta Basnet, 22, looked relaxed at Kuala Lumpur airport last week. He was going home after four years in Malaysia. When asked if he plans to return, he replied firmly: […]
Private manpower recruitment agencies claim that migration costs will be around 2,00,000 Bangladeshi Taka when the Malaysian market opens. Recruitment agencies told Ekattor TV that they have paid bribes every step of the recruitment process from Malaysia to Bangladesh. But the Bangladeshi government maintains that the cost of recruitment will be less than 80,000 Taka. […]
The 2014 South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit took an initiative on the issue of migrant labour. It sought to ensure safety, security, and wellbeing of their migrant workers in the destination countries outside the SAARC region. This was to be done with the help of international bodies such as the International Labour […]
बचतपत्रप्रति प्रवासी कामदार उदासीन सात वर्षदेखि प्रवासी कामदारलाई लक्षित गर्दै वैदेशिक रोजगार बचतपत्र जारी भइरहे पनि लक्षित वर्ग आकर्षित हुन सकेका छैनन् । विदेशमा कार्यरत र स्वदेश फर्केका अधिकांश कामदार अझै बचतपत्रबारे अनभिज्ञ छन् भने थाहा पाएकाहरूको पनि लगाव देखिँदैन । राष्ट्र बैंकले जारी गर्ने उक्त बचतपत्रको ब्याजदर अन्यभन्दा बढी रहँदै आएको छ । वैदेशिक […]
Kodaikanal hill station in Tamil Nadu, Southern India had been thronged by tourists in the summer season. During the season, thousands of labourers including taxi drivers, hawkers and tourist guides work in Kadaikanal earning well. But this year, the hill station faced steep downfall in the number of tourists due to the heatwave. As a […]
The “free visa free ticket” policy in Nepal should be an eye opener for India. Though India is a matured democracy and the fastest developing economy, Indian labors who are migrating abroad have been perilously exploited by travel agents. At this juncture India should follow “Free Visa free Ticket” policy of Nepal. (News in Malayalam language broadcast in […]