migration

Father’s migration, son’s education

Against all odds, a Nepali migrant provides education for his son to become a doctor

The periphery cannot hold

Kesang Tseten’s new film documents how Himalayan communities are falling apart

Sonia Awale

Who gets to recruit for Malaysia?

Malaysia’s 10-point recruiter selection criteria risks punishing the good migration actors

Upasana Khadka

The first freedom

How we lost sight of our oldest human right — the freedom of movement

Nepal’s unchanging domestic worker saga

On 30th July, World Day against Trafficking in Persons, Nepali Times’ coverage of migration in the last 25 years

Upasana Khadka

Nepal in 2050

If Nepal is to meet its socioeconomic goals in 25 years, it must have improved governance starting yesterday

Sonia Awale

No country for bovines

An anthropomorphised buffalo’s quest to go abroad is a comedic yet poignant reflection of Nepal’s youth migration

Nepalis in ‘scam camps’ escape to tell the tale

Trafficked and forced by the Chinese mafia in Burma to defraud victims online

Lockdown+5

Nepal clamped its first Covid lockdown on 24 March 2020, and five years later many have forgotten what it was like

Sonia Awale

The new equaliser

Remittance money sent home by migrant workers annually is at least 30 times the aid Nepal receives

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