Foreign Labor Migration and the Remittance Economy of Nepal

By D. Seddon, J. Adhikari, G. Gurung. 2002

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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• Strategies for stimulating poverty-alleviating growth in the rural nonfarm economy in developing countries (2002, background): “In Nepal, they contribute 25 percent of household income to nearly one quarter of all rural households and contribute significant foreign exchange inflows into the kingdom (Seddon et al., 2000).”
• Rural livelihood diversification and household well-being: Insights from Humla, Nepal (2016, background): “Foreign labor migration from other parts of Nepal has contributed a huge share in the national economy (Seddon et al., 2002; Kollmair et al., 2006; Maharjan et al., 2013) and has also created opportunities for the socially and economically underprivileged subpopulation like the Dalits to move out of”
• Migration patterns and remittance transfer in Nepal: a case study of Sainik Basti in Western Nepal. (2005, background): “Also, research is increasingly done on the amount of remittances, which are mainly undocumented in Nepal (Graner and Gurung, 2003; Gurung G., 2001, 2003; Seddon et al. 2001, 2002; Subedi, 1991; von der Heide and Hoffmann, 2001).”
• Reconsidering the links between poverty, international labour migration, and agrarian change: critical insights from Nepal (2016, background): “Existing studies of the Nepalese migration consider the issues of remittances (Kollmair et al. 2006; Sapkota 2013; Seddon, Adhikari, and Gurung 2002; Thieme and Wyss 2005), gender relations (Bhattarai, Beilin, and Ford 2015; Kaspar 2005), and livelihoods (Adhikari and Hobley 2013; Thieme 2008).”
• Migration and climate change: examining thresholds of change to guide effective adaptation decision-making (2010, background): “ Seddon et al. (2002, p. 20) estimate ‘‘that well over 1 million Nepalis are working abroad and that the value of their remittances to the Nepali economy as a whole may be as great as between 15 and 20 percent of gross domestic product.’’ Such labour migration corridors are likely to provide an ong”
• Sex Trafficking in Nepal: Context and Process (2004, background): “Seddon et al (1999) report that 23% of registered migrants were women, but suggest that the actual figure may be much higher as much female migration is often unrecorded due to the concentration of female labour in the informal, unregulated economic sectors.”