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http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/31705| Title: | Invisible in life and death: Visibilising the deaths of female Nepali migrant domestic workers and the struggles of their families |
| Authors: | Bhagat, A WOREC |
| Issue Date: | 4-Aug-2025 |
| Publisher: | Brunel University of London and Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC) |
| Citation: | Bhagat, A. and WOREC (2025) Invisible in life and death: Visibilising the deaths of female Nepali migrant domestic workers and the struggles of their families. Uxbridge: Brunel University of London; Kathmandu: WOREC, pp. i - ix, 1 - 43. doi: 10.17633/rd.brunel.29804651.v1 |
| Abstract: | Executive Summary In this report, we offer an urgent examination of the deaths of female Nepali migrant domestic workers abroad and the consequences for their families. Drawing on 17 cases across multiple districts in Nepal, we foreground the voices of bereaved family members and argue that Nepal’s migration industry systemically fails its most vulnerable citizens – women from Dalit, janajati, and low-income backgrounds. At the heart of this pilot feminist research is an important question: What happens when the state that benefits from migrant women’s labour disowns them in death? |
| Description: | Name of Contributors: Sulochana Khanal, Pooja Bishwakarma, Sangita Nepali, Dil Kumari Budha Magar, Rusha Bhandari, Kalpana Chaudhary, Kamala Khadka Budha Magar, Srijana Timilsina, Chandika Mohara, Anupma Pokharel, and Sunita Mainali Collaborating Institutions: Brunel University of London, WOREC, and Sunita Foundation |
| URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/31705 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17633/rd.brunel.29804651.v1 |
| Other Identifiers: | ORCiD: Ayushman Bhagat https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8878-4668 |
| Appears in Collections: | Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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