Migration in Far West Nepal

Poertner, Ephraim; Junginger, Mathias; Müller‐Böker, Ulrike

doi:10.1080/14672715.2011.623531

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“…Nevertheless, a migration pathway is not accessible to all of the rural poor, who are differentiated along the lines of household assets, caste, gender and ethnicity. Since international migration is biased in economic and social terms, an abysmally low number of Dalits and landless ethnic peoples have accessed the migration pathway due to their weak asset base and poor social networks, as is evident both in the case set out here and elsewhere (Poertner et al ; Thieme and Ghimire ). As this paper shows, the rural poor have benefited from their integration into the overseas labour market.…”

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In Search of Pathways out of Poverty: Mapping the Role of International Labour Migration, Agriculture and Rural Labour

Sunam

2015

Journal of Agrarian Change

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The issue of rural poverty continues to shape critical academic and policy discourses in the global South. In such discourses, some scholars and policy-makers highlight non-agrarian pathways leading to prosperity, while others continue to emphasize the significance of land and farming for poverty reduction. However, such analyses tend not only to obscure strong linkages between agriculture, migration and rural labour, but also stay silent on how rural people interpret changes or continuities in their livelihoods. In this paper, I focus on the case of rural Nepal to unfold how some rural people, but not others, improve their livelihoods through international labour migration, farming and rural labour. This paper reveals that many poor people have experienced improved livelihoods pursuing a diverse portfolio of agricultural and non-agricultural activities including labour migration. However, the dispossession of poor people from land and their adverse incorporation into the local and international labour markets continue to perpetuate chronic poverty.

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In Search of Pathways out of Poverty: Mapping the Role of International Labour Migration, Agriculture and Rural Labour

Sunam

2015

Journal of Agrarian Change

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“…() and Poertner et al . () have explored the links between internal and international migration showing that remittances from migrants working overseas are one of the key factors supporting internal migration by family members. This case demonstrates that migration has become important to the livelihoods of both Thai and Lao people.…”

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“…Similarly, in their study of international labour migration and internal migration patterns from the mountain and hill regions to the lowlands of Nepal, Poertner et al . () contend that successful international migration to India supports internal migration within Nepal. While most research in Nepal focuses on rural‐to‐rural migration, particularly resettlement schemes and migration from the hills and mountains to rural areas, the study of Poertner et al .…”

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“…While most research in Nepal focuses on rural‐to‐rural migration, particularly resettlement schemes and migration from the hills and mountains to rural areas, the study of Poertner et al . () instead focused on rural–urban migration because remittances from international migration are a fundamental source of funding for family resettlement from the rural highlands to the more urbanised lowlands.…”

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Unravelling the Dynamics of Border Crossing and Rural‐to‐Rural‐to‐Urban Mobility in the Northeastern Thai–Lao Borderlands

Rungmanee

2016

Population Space and Place

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A considerable number of migration studies to date have focused on either internal or international migration. Such studies tend to highlight the economic inequality that underlies human mobility, and hold that migration proceeds according to the rural‐to‐urban divide, as well as between nation‐states. However, these approaches fail to describe how labour moves internally, internationally, and within and across sectors. This paper addresses this complexity by examining cross‐border migration that takes Lao migrants from agricultural to service sectors, from the hinterland of Laos to the borderlands of northeast Thailand, and from Laos to Bangkok and other urban centres in Thailand. By drawing upon case studies in a border village in northeast Thailand and in two villages in Lao People's Democratic Republic, this study shows that Lao migrants engage in rural‐to‐rural migration at different stages of their lives and reveals how internal migration in Thailand leads to emigration from Laos. Although a relatively high wage rate in Thailand plays a critical role in human mobility across the border, there are other determining factors that need to be considered, including the historical context of the movement between the sending and receiving areas, geographical proximity, and a shared linguistic and cultural background that supports cross‐border migration and which complicates migration patterns. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…One of the reasons for fewer births identi ed in the census was that 43 women who consented to enroll in routine care through the broader RMNCH study did not agree to provide a birth history during the 2018 census. In this setting, the high rate of in-and out-migration poses challenges in care delivery, and may explain why some events were missing in the programmatic data (25,26). This is consistent with other studies that have identi ed migration as a potential factor affecting vital events recording by CHWs (22).…”

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Comparing two data collection methods to track vital events in maternal and child health via community health workers in rural Nepal

Choudhury¹,

Tiwari²,

Wu³

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Background: Timely tracking of health outcomes is difficult in low- and middle-income countries without comprehensive vital registration systems. Community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly collecting vital events data while routinely delivering care in communities in low-resource settings. It is necessary, however, to assess whether routine programmatic data collected by CHWs are sufficiently reliable for timely monitoring and evaluation of health interventions. To study this, we assessed the consistency of vital events data recorded by CHWs using two methodologies – routine data collected while delivering an integrated maternal and child health intervention, and data from a birth history census approach at the same site in rural Nepal. Methods: We linked individual records from routine programmatic data from June 2017 to May 2018 with those from census data, both collected by CHWs at the same site using a mobile platform. We categorized each vital event over a one-year period as “recorded by both methods,” “census alone,” or “programmatic alone.” We further assessed whether vital events data recorded by both methods were classified consistently. Results: We identified a total of 713 unique births (from maternal records only) and 746 births (collectively from maternal and child records) from June 2017 to May 2018 in one or both data collection methods. About three-fourths (n=526) of total births (from maternal records only), and (n=572) of total births (collectively from maternal and child records) were identified by both methods. Among births from maternal records identified by both methods, there was high consistency in birth location classification. Programmatic data captured more births (from mothers and children combined) than census data (723 versus 595). Most infants were consistently classified as “living” in both methods, while infant deaths and stillbirths were largely classified inconsistently or recorded by only one method. Programmatic data identified five infant deaths and five stillbirths not recorded in census data. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that data collected by CHWs from routinely tracking pregnancies, births, and deaths over time are promising for timely program monitoring and evaluation despite some limitations, and may be more effective than cross-sectional census surveys asking women to recall these events.

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Migration in Far West Nepal

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

In Search of Pathways out of Poverty: Mapping the Role of International Labour Migration, Agriculture and Rural Labour

In Search of Pathways out of Poverty: Mapping the Role of International Labour Migration, Agriculture and Rural Labour

Unravelling the Dynamics of Border Crossing and Rural‐to‐Rural‐to‐Urban Mobility in the Northeastern Thai–Lao Borderlands

Comparing two data collection methods to track vital events in maternal and child health via community health workers in rural Nepal

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