How a lifeline for the world’s poorest is being cut off due to Covid-19
4 years, 7 months ago

How a lifeline for the world’s poorest is being cut off due to Covid-19

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN Business — For more than four years, Saiful Islam sent about half of the money he made as a construction worker in Bahrain back to his aging parents in Bangladesh. “Now that I can’t send money back home, my family is also suffering and cannot buy food, and my old parents can’t get any good medical treatment,” Islam told CNN Business. “We need to take care of them, we need to be inclusive in our policy responses to the coronavirus crisis.” ‘Some days we have nothing to eat’ Many migrant workers face a triple threat from this crisis: They lose their jobs and can’t send money home to their families; they are unable to return home due to national lockdowns; and they risk contracting the virus in cramped living conditions with zero social distancing. “The life of a helper, it’s not easy.” Many of the 390,000 domestic workers in Hong Kong are women, mostly from the Philippines and Indonesia, who are working abroad to send money back to their families. “There are many employers who said they would cut the monthly salary,” said Chuni Thapa, a Nepalese domestic worker and the chair of the Union of Nepalese Domestic Workers in Hong Kong.

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A retelling of the Indian migrant worker’s plight
2 years ago

A retelling of the Indian migrant worker’s plight

The Hindu  

This year, International Migrants Day must be seen in the backdrop of unprecedented volatility that began in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data on migration According to the International Organization of Migration ’s World Migration Report 2022, there were 281 million international migrants globally in 2020, with nearly two-thirds being labour migrants. In the winter session of …

How COVID-19 halted labour migration
2 years, 7 months ago

How COVID-19 halted labour migration

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 08, 2022 16:45 IST Abul Basar has been in Saudi Arabia for 14 years now. In April 2020, World Bank experts estimated that migrants would send $129 billion less back home in the first year of the pandemic — a 20 per cent drop. A large number of migrant workers also likely drew on savings in order …

Death & Debts: Impact of 2020 Lockdown on a Migrant Worker Family in UP’s Unnao
2 years, 10 months ago

Death & Debts: Impact of 2020 Lockdown on a Migrant Worker Family in UP’s Unnao

The Quint  

In 2017, Reshma, her husband Rajesh, their five children, and Reshma’s father Bhaiya Lal moved to Chandigarh in search of work. My husband worked as a driver and was paid Rs 9,000, and my father worked in a cosmetic store and would get Rs 200-500 a day depending on the work. We were managing somehow,” recalls Reshma, on a chilly …

Migrant workers face debt, job loss and separation from families
3 years, 9 months ago

Migrant workers face debt, job loss and separation from families

The Hindu  

Construction sites, industrial clusters, markets and homes in the National Capital Region are abuzz with activity, but for the migrant workers who make a living in these spaces, life is far from normal a year after the country was locked down to curb the spread of COVID-19 in March 2020. Alsio read:Coronavirus lockdown | Migrant workers should not be prosecuted, …

Asia-Pacific May See $31.4-54.3 Billion Remittance Losses Due to Covid-19: ADB
4 years, 5 months ago

Asia-Pacific May See $31.4-54.3 Billion Remittance Losses Due to Covid-19: ADB

News 18  

Asia Pacific, which accounts for a third of the global migrant workforce, is likely to face remittance losses of USD 31.4-54.3 billion due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Asian Development Bank said in a report. Job losses stemming from COVID-19 are hurting households around the world, but for Asia and the Pacific's 91 million migrant workers – a third of …

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