Remittances from foreign labour migrants constitute the second highest earner of foreign exchange. Such employment also contribute significantly to reducing the unemployment rate in the country. It would thus be in the ...

Migration can be domestic or international. The author examines the impact of both types of migration at the economic and social levels by surveying two sites in rural Sri Lanka. Findings of the survey indicate that ...

Japan is a much sought after destination for employment for Sri Lankans due to high wages offered by the employers. Not many studies have been conducted on labour migrants in Japan, and this book seems to fill the void. ...

Presently, the destination of over 90% of Sri Lankan labour migrants constitute the Middle East region. Other significant facts are that most of the labour is in the unskilled category, and females dominate in this category. ...

The author attempts to analyse the changing trends in labour migration in Sri Lanka, in terms of socio economics, household remittances, occupations, gender, and migration destinations. While female domestic labour to the ...

Maldives, having a total population of approximately three hundred and thirty thousand, acts as a hosting country for over hundred thousand migrant workers, with over fourteen thousand of them being from Sri Lanka. This ...

In recent times, several studies have been conducted on labour migration issues in Sri Lanka. Using the findings of such studies, together with data obtained from the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment this paper ...

The setting up the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment in 1985 as a one stop agency to administer foreign employment was a major step in promoting and regulating labour migration. The open economy reforms in the early ...

There are several avenues whereby a country is able to acquire foreign exchange reserves. This article strives to study one such source, this being the earnings from workforce migration from Sri Lanka to other countries. ...

Private recruitment agents continue to operate a wide and profitable network which offer several services to migrant workers as well as employers, although several other channels provide similar services to access the ...