TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS

Top 10 Districts for Female Foreign Labor Migrants
Unlike the total foreign labor migrants by districts, the female foreign labor migrants show a
different picture. It is mostly the hills/mountains districts with the highest proportion of female labor
migrants such as Sindhupalchok, Makwanpur, Kathmandu, Kavre, Nuwakot and Illam (Figure 3.1).
These 10 districts alone share 50 percent of documented female foreign labor migrants of Nepal in
between FY 2006/07 and 2013/14. Although data on the foreign labor migrants by caste/ethnicity is
not available from the DoFE, it appears that it is mostly the hills origin females over Madheshi ones
migrating for employment abroad. Several sociological literature suggest that there is relatively
much cultural relaxation of the hills/mountain origin females especially among Janajati and Dalit to
work outside of the house against females belonging to Madheshi community. This is also confirmed
from Population Census 2011 data that the crude economic activity rate for females is more than 3
times lower in Terai (15%) compared to hills (43%) and mountains (51%) (CBS, 2014c).
Source: Department of Foreign Employment (2014) Annual Report of FY 2070/71 (2013/14).
Countries of Destination
According to the Annual Report 2014 of Department of Foreign Employment, the GoN has opened
110 countries for work abroad. These countries consist of Europe, North America, Latin America,
Africa, Asia and Australia continents (See Appendix 4.2 for individual countries).
Table 4.7 Number of foreign labor migrants by sex in FY 2014/15 and stock of migrants (2006/07-2014/15),
Nepal
Country Annual Flow in 2014/15 Stock (2006/07-2014/15)
Male Female Total % of
total
Male Female Total % of
total
Qatar 122,050 2,318 124,368 24.2 705,940 6,317 712,257 23.5
Malaysia 196,929 5,899 202,828 39.5 1,145,467 23,946 1,169,413 38.6
Saudi Arabia 97,570 676 98,246 19.2 613,172 1,870 615,042 20.3
UAE 46,105 7,594 53,699 10.5 321,616 24,445 346,061 11.4
Kuwait 8,750 918 9,668 1.9 50,834 1,932 52,766 1.7
Bahrain 3,623 542 4,165 0.8 29,547 1,578 31,125 1.0
Oman 1,873 427 2,300 0.4 14,612 915 15,527 0.5
South Korea 4,804 354 5,158 1.0 5,941 426 6,367 0.2
Lebanon 136 462 598 0.1 2,745 3,543 6,288 0.2
Israel 131 319 450 0.1 18,179 3,397 21,576 0.7
Afghanistan 1,495 6 1,501 0.3 4,280 6 4,286 0.1
Japan 2,742 94 2,836 0.6 3,032 403 3,435 0.1
Others 4,651 2,419 7,070 1.4 38,378 5,587 43,965 1.5
Total 490,859 22,028 512,887 100.0 2,953,743 74,365 3,028,108 100.0
Source: data for FY 2014/15, http://www.dofe.gov.np/new/pages/details/34 (accessed on November 30, 2015) and
Department of Foreign Employment (2014) Annual Report of FY 2070/71 (2013/14).
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