MIGRATION OF NEPALESE YOUTH FOR FOREIGN EMPLOYMENT:
PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
Prakash Bhattarai (prakash.bhattarai@gmail.com)

Youth Protest with Tourch

 Study regarding the “Migration of Nepalese youth for Foreign Employment: Problems and Prospects” has been carried out with the aim of evaluating the Nepalese government’s policies and programmes related to the regulation and management of foreign employment profession in Nepal. This study, at the some time has seek to identify the issues and challenges on foreign employment, nature of labour migration trend and the number of socio-economic and demographic aspects related to the migration of Nepali migrant workers. Similarly, this study has also evaluated the internationally recognised policies and programmes to protect the rights of the migrant workers. Both qualitative and quantitative information has incorporated to the completion of this study. So the trend analysis of Nepali labour migrants by fiscal year and the concentration of people in different countries in different period of time are also observed. It is found that, migrants workers have faced problems both in the home country and the country of destination, where as the problems in abroad are highlighted very much as compared to the problem that they are being in the national level.

Nepalese government polices are not able enough and properly implemented to the regulation and management of foreign labour migration. At the some time Nepalese government is not found sincere to the implication of international provisions to protect the rights of the migrant workers. Government mechanisms are not found very much effective to assure safe migration of potential labour migrants. Finally the study has concluded that the foreign labour migration can be regulated with the proper implementation of government policies and programmes. The foreign employment profession should also be accepted as a dignified occupation as because of its importance to strengthen the national economy and it also making our young people engage in some sorts of income generating activities even in the difficult period of the country.