Patricia Miraflores* The ongoing repatriation of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) due to COVID-19 was named the biggest in Philippine history by Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. who speculates it may even be the largest ever mass repatriation of citizens from a single country. During the pandemic, a one-billion peso fund was allocated to the Assistance-to-Nationals […]
Dr. K. Ranju PhD, CHRBP The recent disputes between Assam and Mizoram is not new. Rather it has historical roots of 150 years….. The northeast of India — a territory bounded by Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, and Tibet and connected to the rest of the nation by a thin land corridor – has been a hotspot
Assam and Mizoram’s Border Dispute: Is It Used To Hide ‘Illegal’ Migrant Influx? Read More »
This piece is written to summarize the basic arguments and findings of an academic article by Glick Schiller (2017), titled “Transborder citizenship: An outcome of legal pluralism within transnational social fields”. I decided to review this paper for a couple of reasons. First, this article is related to my thesis work which is about the
Diasporic multiple citizenships through extraterritorial networking Read More »
Author: * K.Ranju Rangan 1.1 Introduction This article examines an essential dimension of globalisation: labour migration between emerging economies and skill development roles, which has not gained sufficient reportage. Migration of skilled workers from developed countries is a persistent trend, and governments need to respond to and benefit from this migration in both sending and
Skill Development Tool or Trade for Safe Migration: The Case of Bangladeshi Emigrants Read More »
