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27/03/2024

15:30 ▸ 17:30

Organised by the Migration and Mobility research group … Lire la suite

Face-to-face event

Pandemic Return, Reintegration and Re-migration of Temporary Migrant Workers

Venue: Room Pierre Hassner (S1), second floor, 28 rue des Saints-Pères - 75007 Paris

Organised by the Migration and Mobility research group and Migration and Diversity

Speaker:
Richa Shivakoti, Research Area Lead, Migration Governance, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University

Temporary migrant workers and their vulnerability became dramatically visible during the global pandemic as an unprecedented number were forced to return to their home countries. This research uses the case of Nepal, a highly remittance-dependent economy (remittances accounting for around 25% of the GDP) to study the consequences of the large-scale return of migrant workers to their home countries post-pandemic.

In this talk, Dr. Shivakoti will present her recent research based on a SSHRC funded project with primary data collected from 150 pandemic returnee migrant workers from various destinations to Nepal with 4 sets of semi-structured interviews over a 2-year period. She will present research findings on the crisis return, the individual and institutional preparedness as well as the aspirations and capabilities of migrant workers post return.

Scientific coordinators: Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, Hélène Le Bail, Hélène Thiollet, Antoine Pécoud, Catherine Perron et Thomas Lacroix

Organisé par : CERI