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417 Returnee Migrant Workers: Nearly half of them remain jobless Study shows 98pc of them are in stress due to unemployment, inadequate income File photo Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent A survey by Brac Migration Programme has found that 47.23 percent of 417 returnee migrants do not have any income source now. As a result, the returnees are living their daily life depending on family earnings, loans, and support from relatives. The report says 52.77 percent of the 417 respondents to the survey have somehow managed work. Of them, 24.19 percent are working in agriculture, 22.33 perce...

50,000 female migrants returned during pandemic Says Brac data There are an estimated 67 million domestic workers in the world, 80 percent of whom are women and 11.5 million of whom are migrants. Photo: AFP/Munir Uz Zaman Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent About 49,924 female migrant workers returned home from 21 countries amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Brac Migration Programme. Besides, at least 487 bodies of female migrant workers arrived after 2016. The NGO yesterday shared the data with the media ahead of the International ...

Bangladeshi migrant workers who returned home from Libya on Wednesday went through severe hardship as their livelihoods were hampered due to economic uncertainty and deterioration of law and order. The migrants, who returned voluntarily, faced dearth of income opportunities as the North African country was torn by a bloody war. The 148 Bangladeshis landed in Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on a special flight Wednesday morning. They returned with the help of International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and on their return, the migrants were given different support they needed, includ...

Female worker returns from Saudi Arabia in ‘psychologically unstable’ state Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. File photo Star Online Report Star Online Report A female migrant worker returned home from Saudi Arabia in the early hours today in a "psychologically unstable state" after being allegedly tortured by her employer in the Gulf country, Brac said today. With her, as many as 68 migrant workers, including 61 female migrants who were employed as domestic help, returned home with psychological health issues from different count...