
Location:
United States
Genres:
News & Politics Podcasts
Description:
We're talking with the people migrating from, to, and within this Himalayan country located between China and India. You'll hear from a wide range of Nepali men and women who have chosen to leave the country for better work or education opportunities. Their stories will help you understand what drives people — in Nepal and worldwide — to mortgage their property or borrow huge sums of money to go abroad, often leaving their loved ones behind. Despite many predictions, migration from Nepal has not slowed in recent years, except briefly during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. About 1 million Nepalis leave every year to work at jobs outside the country. Tens of thousands go abroad to study. Far fewer return to Nepal to settle. The money ('remittances') that workers send home to their families accounts for 25% of the country's GDP, but migration impacts Nepal in many other ways. We'll be learning from migrants, experts and others about the many cultural, social, economic and political impacts of migration. Your host is Marty Logan, a Canadian journalist who has lived in Nepal's capital Kathmandu off and on since 2005. Marty started the show in 2020 as Nepal Now.
Twitter:
@now_nepal
Language:
English
Website:
https://nepalnow.buzzsprout.com/
Email:
marty@martylogan.net
Who is choosing to study and work in Nepal?
Duration:00:24:58
Should students going abroad use education consultancies?
Duration:00:27:53
Maya migrated to support her family, got shamed by her community
Duration:00:22:46
His children all migrated but Rajendra is happy in Nepal
Duration:00:26:20
No-cost, or low-cost, labour migration is not just a dream
Duration:00:29:51
Being a migrant in Trump's US - journalist Tanka Dhakal
Duration:00:30:30
Nepal unprepared to reintegrate female migrant workers
Duration:00:33:27
On the move from Kathmandu to Kabul: 2024's top episode
Duration:00:28:15
Pragati Nepali plans to further her design career by migrating to work in Jordan
Duration:00:22:32
UPDATE: Nepal graduate in Canada desperately looking for a job
Duration:00:30:20
Tricked into going to Russia, Khakendra fled before reaching the front lines
Duration:00:23:31
Why are so many Nepalis leaving their country?
Duration:00:04:35
Another nurse leaves Nepal, despite prime minister's appeal
Duration:00:24:45
Climate change, floods, disaster, migration
Duration:00:32:49
Another Nepali nurse on the move
Duration:00:01:51
Kathmandu-Kabul-Kathmandu: Prem Awasthi feels his roots getting shallower
Duration:00:34:07
Not a migration story: Dr Rojina Shilpakar
Duration:00:33:47
Why Japan is #1 for students; a new sound coming
Duration:00:07:04
Investigating mistreatment of migrant workers—journalist Pramod Acharya
Duration:00:29:29
2/3 of manpower agencies suspended; brain drain or brain circulation?
Duration:00:07:39