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Item International Labour Migration in Nepal (A Study of Parroha VDC,Ward No. 1 of Rupandehi District)(Department of Population Studies, 2008) Wagle, DhirendraThe present study has tried to find out the role of international labour migration as a livelihood strategy from the analysis of the households of migrant labourers in Parroha VDC,ward No. 1 of Rupandehi district. The analysis has been done on the basis of data generated from the interview, questionnaire,survey and group discussion as well as from secondary data. The study has revealed unemployment,poverty, lackof opportunity in the home country are the reasons and obligations of labourmigration.Gulf countries followed by East /South-East Asian countries have been the major destination of migrant workers. Mainly the local brokers have organized the foreign employment and most of them have found cheated during the course of migration. The migrant workers have managed the amount difficultly from different sources like selling land and properties, taking loans and borrowing from relatives and friends. Most of the migrant workers are unskilled. Due to the lack of higher education and proper training, they face problem in languages, skills and are compelled to work as unskilled manual workers. Therefore, they have been working abroad in lower wage and salary due to the lesser skills. Bank and Hundi are the major sources to transfer the remittances to their households. To buy essential goods and maintain the house expenses have been the first priorities of using the remittances. Besides, they have invested on education of their children and constructing houses. Therefore, labour migration has resulted in changing the living standard, custom and other activities of the households in the study area.Item Livelihood Strategy and Occupational Vulnerability of Street Ice Cream Vendors in Kathmandu Valley(Department of Geography, 2008) Paneru, Indra PrasadUrban centers are dynamic in nature for different activities such as business and exchanges. Earning livelihood by street ice-cream vending in urban Kathmandu is also a business for a group of people. This study examines the livelihood strategy and assets, socio-economic background, migration status, working condition and occupational vulnerability of street ice-cream vendors (SICVs) in Kathmnadu valley. The analysis is primarily based onsurvey of 42 such vendors in three different area of the valley namely Jawalakhel, Ratna parkand Balaju. Finding suggest that this occupation is male dominant and they are quite youngenergetic and hard working. They are from variety of caste ethnic backgrounds, illiterate andhave poor educational status. Overwhelming majority is migrant. They are from different part ofthe country. There is no single factor explanation from immigration of SICV to Kathmandu.Multitude of economic, social secure, landless as well as personal factors have collectivelyresulted into their move to Kathmandu. The enrollment of children in school and quite betterlivelihood then previous one is there overall satisfaction by this occupation. Less investment,easy access to money, easy to handle and feeling freedom are the major tenants to adopt thisoccupation. Despite all these they are facing personal as well as occupational risks. Whilepersonal and individual risk may have to be addressed at the personal level, the occupationalrisk and vulnerabilities such as seasonality on occupation, authorities behavior, spacerestriction and place specific characteristics and occupational un-sustainability are thevulnerable aspects. Likewise, they also feel this work as non-prestigious occupation (despitegood income on a daily basis) and social behavior are more potential aspect of their occupation.This study also found that urbanization provides opportunity for various kinds of activities toearn livelihood who do not have his/her own space or structure to carryout economic activities.Item Livelihood strategy of Tharu community ; A case study of Bijauri VDC, of Dang District(Department of Rural Development, 2016) Gharti, Sharan KumarNot available