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For Bangladesh, international migration is a prominent
livelihood option.
Job Overseas is an essential feature in Bangladeshi'seconomic landscape.
This Overseas job substitutes the high unemploymentrate in the country.
Remittance are like a goldmine for BD.
Playing key role for stability in the balance of paymentsand mitigating unemployment problem.
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The major destinations of the Bangladeshi workers are to the
Gulf Countries and South-East Asia.
Gulf CountriesSaudi Arabia
UAE
Kuwait
Qatar
Oman
Iraq
Libya
Bahrain
Iran
Lebanon
South-east Asia
Malaysia
Singapore
Hong KongSouth Korea
Bahrain
Brunei
Japan
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A dream for earning excessivedollars overnight.
Takes Job Overseas as prestigiousact.
Becomes the norm among youngmen.
Satisfactory availability of job inoverseas.
Sending somebody abroad ---- GoodInvestment.
Strong belief in overseas experience
as means to social transformation.
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False passport, false visa, falserecruitment. Face abuse, poor pay and non payment byemployer
Continuously cheated by unscrupulousagentMass retrenchment for low experience level
and non-technical education.
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Malaysia cancelled visas for more than 55,000 Bangladeshi
jobseekers.March 12, 2009, The Daily Star
Romania did not accept more than 10,000 Bangladeshi workers.
Mauritius decided to send back 6,000 Bangladeshi workers.
72,000 Bangladeshis returned home jobless in 2009.January 10, 2010, The Financial Express
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Global Recession and Closing of a number offixed labor markets.
Workers get involved in mugging, kidnapping
and calling strike, which hamper our reputation
Workers' going abroad in illegal way
Exploitations and cheating by employers ormanpower brokers
Employershired surplus workers, but finally did
not issue work permits against them.
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Overseas Workers,
1976-2009
6,741,187
Remittances US$67.72 billion
Overseas Workers by Profession, 1976-2009
Professional 181,336Skilled 2,079,228
Semi-skilled 1,091,766
Unskilled 3,388,857
Net Migration Rate 0.5 migrant / 1,000
population
Cumulative Statistics 1976 to 2009
Source: Information is collated by the
International Organization for
Migration (IOM) from BMET
50%
16%
31%
3% Unskilled
Semi-
skilled
Skilled
Professio
nal
Source: BMET, 2009.
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Source: Finance Division (2010)
Fiscal year Remittance
s (million
dolor)
Changes %
2005-06 4801.88 24.38
2006-07 5998 24.91
2007-08 7915 31.96
2008-09 9689 22.41
2009-10 10987 13.40
Source: thedailystar.net
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Taking measures for skill development,pre-departure orientation, remittancechanneling
Adopting latest technologies and arrangingnational vocational and technicaleducation
Enacting or amending existing laws forbringing transparency in migrationprocess
Strictly monitoring the private recruitingagenciesand so on..
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Saudi Arabia will gradually soften its positionin recruiting more manpower from Bangladesh.
New job sectors also opened up in Australia,
Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Botswana, Libya,
Somalia and South Africa.
The govt. has also opened labour wings at its
diplomatic missions at Ryad and Madina in
Saudi Arabia and at Penang in Malaysia.
Initiatives have also been taken to open such
wings at the countrys mission in Italy, Japan,
Jordan, Sudan and war-ravaged Iraq.
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It represents the Overseas Job as lucrative sector of
economy of Bangladesh.
It points out with the global financial crunch showingsigns of sliding for its migrant workers; the economy is
likely to come under serious stress.
It also shows the cause of decline of Bangladesh
manpower export. It priorities to be responsive of taking timely and
efficiently policy, initiatives for competing with global
labor market.
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