For Bangladesh, international migration is a prominent livelihood option.

Job Overseas is an essential feature in Bangladeshi's economic landscape.

This Overseas job substitutes the high unemployment rate in the country.

Remittance are like a goldmine for BD. Playing key role for stability in the balance of payments and mitigating unemployment problem.

The major destinations of the Bangladeshi workers are to the Gulf Countries and South-East Asia.

Gulf Countries
Saudi Arabia UAE Kuwait Qatar Oman Iraq Libya Bahrain Iran Lebanon

South-east Asia
Malaysia Singapore Hong Kong South Korea Bahrain Brunei Japan

A dream for earning excessive dollars overnight. Takes Job Overseas as prestigious act. Becomes the norm among young men. Satisfactory availability of job in overseas. Sending somebody abroad ---- Good Investment. Strong belief in overseas experience as means to social transformation.

 False passport, false visa, false recruitment.

Face abuse, poor pay and non payment by employer

Continuously cheated by unscrupulous agent Mass retrenchment for low experience level and non-technical education.

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

 Global Recession and Closing of a number of fixed 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 or manpower brokers Employers hired surplus workers, but finally did not issue work permits against them.

Cumulative Statistics 1976 to 2009

Overseas Workers, 1976-2009 Remittances 6,741,187 US$67.72 billion 31% 50% 16% Professional Skilled Semi-skilled Unskilled 181,336 2,079,228 1,091,766 3,388,857 Professio nal 3% Unskilled Semiskilled Skilled

Overseas Workers by Profession, 1976-2009

Source: BMET, 2009.

Net Migration Rate

0.5 migrant / 1,000 population

Source: Information is collated by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) from BMET

Fiscal year

Remittance s (million dolor)

Changes %

2005-06

4801.88

24.38

2006-07 2007-08

5998 7915

24.91 31.96

2008-09

9689

22.41

2009-10

10987

13.40

Source: Finance Division (2010)

Source: thedailystar.net

Taking measures for skill development, pre-departure orientation, remittance channeling

Adopting latest technologies and arranging national vocational and technical education Enacting or amending existing laws for bringing transparency in migration process Strictly monitoring the private recruiting agencies and so on..

Saudi Arabia will gradually soften its position in 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.

 It represents the Overseas Job as lucrative sector of economy of Bangladesh. It points out with the global financial crunch showing signs 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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