Migrant returnee from Malaysia going home with his wife and son after four years.
Photo by: Nabin Rawal
Workers spending energy after work and train in the self funded gym hall (Qatar 2010).
Photo by: Tristan Bruslé
Collectively bought items in a migrants' room (Qatar, 2010)
Photo by: Tristan Bruslé
Workers from Mahottari and Rautahat districts laying bitumen at a road construction site in Matihani, Mahottari.
Photo by: Nilima Rai
Nepali Migrant Workers in Taklakot, Tibet.
Photo by: Mohan Mainali
Living with stars (Qatar, 2010)
Photo by: Tristan Bruslé
Industries and workers' dwelling places in one of Qatar industrial area (Qatar, 2010)
Photo by: Tristan Bruslé
A typical labor camp (Qatar, 2010)
Photo by: Tristan Bruslé
Migrant workers in a gated community are the link between the city's spaces (Qatar, 2010)
Photo by: Tristan Bruslé
A small food outlet run by Baitadis chetris for all far-westerners working in Pithoragarh. (Pithoragarh, India, 2002)
Photo by: Tristan Brusle
Young Nepali boys wait for work as porters in Nainital, India. Many people travel from the Far-and Mid-Western regions of Nepal to work as porters.
Photo by: Prakash Bikram Shah
Nepali laborers constructing a business complex in Samakhusi Kathmandu during the lockdown.
Photo by: Jeevan Baniya
Office of Safe Migration Information Center
Photo by: Nabin Rawal
A woman porter trudges the Everest trail near base camp with provisions for climbers headed for the summit.
Photo by: Bijay Gajmer
People carrying winnowing trays to sell at Barahchhetra, Sunsari.
Photo by: Bijay Gajmer
Worker blowing the dust/sand off the road with compressed air at a construction site in Tanahu before the binder is sprayed.
Photo by: Arjun Kharel
An official at the Siraha branch of the Red Cross Society helps prospective migrants fill out passport application forms for a nominal fee. This arrangement was sanctioned by the Chief District Officer as a source of funds for the Red Cross.
Photo by: Nabin Rawal
The rise of information technology has better connected the migrants with their families back home.
Photo by: Jeevan Raj Sharma
Hard at work - A Nepali worker in a coal mine in India (2013)
Photo by: Rashmi Upadhayay
Migrant workers return to the western hills of Nepal from India. This photo was taken in Bajura.
Photo by: Mohan Mainali
A house in Sinoorjoda, Janakpur, with Qatari-inspired architectural design.
Photo by: Nabin Rawal
Women workers dusting the road before laying bitumen for Otta Seal surfacing in Rauja, Mahottari.
Photo by: Nilima Rai
Workers collecting sand from Bagmati River, at Sankhamul in Kathmandu
Photo by: Bijay Gajmer
A local fishing in the Koshi river of Barahchhetra, Sunsari
Photo by: Bijay Gajmer
Nepali Christian migrant workers in Kuwait
Photo by: Kesang Tseten
Nepali female migrant worker in Kuwait.
Photo by: Kesang Tseten
Migrants waiting at the Tribhuvan International Airport.
Photo by: Shiva Bisangkhe
A Nepali worker on night duty in Abu Dhabi, UAE (2011)
Photo by: Santosh Tumbahangphe
Migrants use the computer and internet to keep in touch with family and friends and watch latest serial comedies (Qatar, 2010)
Photo by: Tristan Bruslé
Cost of migration
Photo by: Taken from FEPB website
Nepali female migrant workers pray at a church in Kuwait
Photo by: Kesang Tseten
Young men quickly learn how to supplement the mess food often viewed as tasteless (Qatar 2010).
Photo by: Tristan Bruslé
Internal migrant workers sand-sealing the road, the final step of the Otta Seal surface treatment process, at a road construction site in Tanahun.
Photo by: Arjun Kharel
Many Nepali workers can be found working at tea estates in Assam, India.
Photo by: Nitu Sarmah
A Nepali tailor found a place to work for his numerous country-fellows porters (Mussoorie, India, 2003)
Photo by: Tristan Brusle
Deura, Bajhang district: Group of Nepali migrants coming back from Bangalore sort out their luggage after deboarding the overnight bus.
Photo by: Deepak Thapa
'We book plane tickets to Saudi, Qatar, Malaysia, Dubai and Kuwait. We also confirm (ok) them.' - A banner in front of a retail shop in Sinoorjoda VDC, Janakpur
Photo by: Nabin Rawal
Migrant workers return to the western hills of Nepal from India. This photo was taken in Bajura.
Photo by: Mohan Mainali
Migrant workers at leisure outside their residential camp in Abu Dhabi, UAE (2011)
Photo by: Santosh Tumbahangphe
Prospective migrant workers stand in queue to apply for the Korean Language Test in Kathmandu (May, 2011)
Photo by: CESLAM
A house in Sinoorjoda, Janakpur, with Qatari-inspired architectural design.
Photo by: Nabin Rawal
'We book plane tickets to Saudi, Qatar, Malaysia, Dubai and Kuwait. We also confirm (ok) them.' - A banner in front of a retail shop in Sinoorjoda VDC, Janakpur
Photo by: Nabin Rawal
Many Nepali workers can be found working at tea estates in Assam, India.
Photo by: Nitu Sarmah
Migrant workers from Jajarkot, Salyan, Kalikot and Baitadi districts constructing gabion walls at a road construction site in Myanglung, Terhathum.
Photo by: Nilima Rai
Orientation training to women migrant workers
Photo by: Pourakhi
A peek at a workplace in Abu Dhabi, UAE (2011)
Photo by: Santosh Tumbahangphe
Contrasting shopping spaces- Villaggio shopping mall (left), Al Attya Industrial Area (right) (Qatar, 2010)
Photo by: Tristan Bruslé
Labor camp area facilities are minimal (Qatar, 2010).
Photo by: Tristan Bruslé
Nepali workers in a coal mine in India (2013)
Photo by: Rashmi Upadhayay
Send your hard-earned money to your family through a trustable medium. Calendar printed by IME shows two Nepali celebrities
Photo by: Tristan Bruslé
A local woman labourer picking outsize pebbles at a road construction site in Matihani, Mahottari.
Photo by: Nilima Rai
An official at the Siraha branch of the Red Cross Society helps prospective migrants fill out passport application forms for a nominal fee. This arrangement was sanctioned by the Chief District Officer as a source of funds for the Red Cross.
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