The remittances of Nepalese migrant workers, who mostly travel to Gulf Cooperation Council countries and Malaysia, constitute 32.1 percent of Nepal’s GDP[1]. Between 2008 and 2015, more than 2.7 million labour permits were issued by the Department of Labour and Employment[2]. However, this number is not completely reliable due to the impossibility of quantifying the number of people...

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While interning with the Centre for Migration and International Relations (CMIR) in Kathmandu, I have started becoming familiar with the numbers and figures of Nepali migrant workers and the tragedies they have endured. But nothing struck me as much as what I witnessed yesterday, when my colleague Basanta and I went to the Tribhuvan International Airport to help...

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