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Jordan is one of the few countries that recruit skilled workers in the apparel industry. The news comes at a time when overseas jobs for migrant workers from Bangladesh declined significantly due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to BOESL, 9,307 garment workers, 9,199 of them female, went to Jordan between July 2018 and June 2019. The garment sector in the middle-eastern country employs about 69,000 workers, of which 75 per cent are women, said the IndustriALL Global Union last year. About 16,000 of the workers are from Jordan, while 53,000 migrant workers from Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, India, China, Cambodia, Madagascar, Pakistan, Myanmar, and Syria make up the rest. ....