Nepalese Migrations: Introduction

Tristan Bruslé (1)

1 CEH - Centre d'Études Himalayennes

Permanent migrations to the Tarai and to urban areas have constantly been on the rise since the 1970s so that the once mountainous Nepalese population is today mostly made up of plain-dwellers. In 2009, every day 700 to 800 Nepalese workers headed for foreign countries, other than India. Not a single day goes by without news of some Nepalese worker stranded in some faraway place. Even though it is impossible to find out exactly how many Nepalese work abroad, there are an estimated 4 to 6.5 million people working permanently or temporarily outside their country.

Mots clés: Migration; Népal

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Géographie

Tristan Bruslé. Nepalese Migrations: Introduction. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 2009, 35-36, pp.16-23. ⟨halshs-01694879⟩