Job Overseas

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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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