"Everyone is leaving. Who will sow our fields?": The livelihood effects on women of male migration from Khotang and Udaypur districts, Nepal, to the gulf countries and Malaysia

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"Everyone is leaving. Who will sow our fields?": The livelihood effects on women of male migration from Khotang and Udaypur districts, Nepal, to the gulf countries and Malaysia

Over the last ten years, the massive outmigration for foreign employment, mostly to the Gulf and Malaysia, has changed the livelihoods and social structure of rural Nepal. The remittance inflows into rural districts dwarf other flows of finance, and the absence of men from the agricultural and other...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Adhikari, Jagannath, Hobley, M.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	2015
Online Access:	http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol35/iss1/7 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6604

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