Orphanhood and Living Arrangements of Children in Nepal

Guragain, Arjun Mani; Paudel, Binita Kumari; Lim, Apiradee; Choonpradub, Chamnein

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“…Several studies report that poverty is the major push factor for children's migration (Dhakal et al, 2019; Kamei, 2018; Rijal et al, 2016; Save the Children, 2019). Changes in family dynamics through events such as illness, disability, death or departure of one or both parents can drastically change a child's life and intensify risk of poverty (Guragain, Paudel, Lim, & Choonpradub, 2015). The rural environment from which many working children originate, provides additional factors that push children into work, such as a failing education system (Institute for Research on Working Children, 2010), the lack of opportunities for young people in villages (van de Glind, 2010), child marriage and the practice of polygamy (Save the Children, 2019), peer or family pressure, influence of ‘ naike’ agents and lack of productive household assets including farmland (Kamei, 2018).…”

Section: Seasonal In‐country Migration To Brick Kilns and Impacts On mentioning

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Bricks in the wall: A review of the issues that affect children of in‐country seasonal migrant workers in the brick kilns of Nepal

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This paper explores experiences of Nepalese children of seasonal migrant workers in brick kilns and the particular vulnerabilities they face, as child labourers, as unpaid workers engaging informally in brick production or household work to the support family economy, or as children left behind in poor communities with varying support. The review provides a thematic analysis from child labour and migration literature from Nepal and South Asia from 2010–2020 to explore issues that affect children of families who internally migrate within Nepal to work in brick kilns. Two key themes and eight subthemes consistently emerged across the papers: Seasonal in‐country migration to brick kilns and impacts on children (reasons for children to enter into migrant work; left‐behind children; remittances; the role of gender on work and education) and the situation of children working in Nepalese brick kilns (living conditions; working conditions and occupational ill‐health; psychosocial distress; child protection). The review found that literature on Nepalese children from brick kiln working families is subsumed into wider studies on migration with impacts on children's lives often reported as outcomes of findings rather than a main focus of studies. Furthermore, there is minimal recent empirical research with such families and children. This may be due to ethical dilemmas of doing research with children and difficulties in maintaining contact with families that move frequently.

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Section: Seasonal In‐country Migration To Brick Kilns and Impacts On mentioning

confidence: 99%

Bricks in the wall: A review of the issues that affect children of in‐country seasonal migrant workers in the brick kilns of Nepal

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Orphans and their living arrangement in Indian households: Understanding their educational and nutritional status

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Sekher

2021

Children and Youth Services Review

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Exploring separated children's experience of migration in Nepal

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2023

Children & Society

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Most Nepalese children live in rural areas where poverty, employment and education act as key drivers in their decision to migrate to urban centres. This paper reports on a study which researched the experiences of separated children who migrated, as reported through interviews with 20 practitioners working in NGOs in Kathmandu. It describes children's motivations, migratory journeys and situations, when ‘promises of work’ often failed to materialise. Having seen more children migrating to Kathmandu and recently fearful that the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic may lead to further increase, practitioners identify the need for an urgent, coherent and multi‐faceted response.

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Orphanhood and Living Arrangements of Children in Nepal

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Bricks in the wall: A review of the issues that affect children of in‐country seasonal migrant workers in the brick kilns of Nepal

Bricks in the wall: A review of the issues that affect children of in‐country seasonal migrant workers in the brick kilns of Nepal

Orphans and their living arrangement in Indian households: Understanding their educational and nutritional status

Exploring separated children's experience of migration in Nepal

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