The cross-border movement of Nepali labour migrants amidst COVID-19: challenges for public health and reintegration
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: The migration of Nepali workers to India for labour is a long-standing tradition and a common pattern of life in the region.As poverty and unemployment have been the main causes of migration, migration for work has helped maintain a standard of living particularly for low-skilled and low-income migrants.However, the COVID-19 pandemic made visible a policy vacuum relating to the connections between the mobility of labour migrants, economic resilience and public health.In the absence of effective policy, returnees have posed challenges for the Nepali state and posed risks for individual workers, households and the communities more broadly as a result of a lack of adequate support and planning.This paper reviews what we know about the return of Nepali labour migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights the impacts this policy vacuum has had on public health consequences within the established social structure of Nepal.
Source: People Place and Policy Online
Authors: Hem Raj Neupane, Philip Brown, Padam Simkhada
Institution: University of Huddersfield
Language: English
Topic: Migration and Labor Dynamics
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4384338067