Who benefits from migration bans?

It’s time to abolish migration bans on domestic work and regulate the actors profiting from these policies.

In 1998, the tragic and sensationalised suicide of Kani Sherpa , a Nepali domestic worker in Kuwait, ignited outrage and cast a shadow over domestic work migration from Nepal. In response, the Government of Nepal enacted various forms of bans on migration to protect its citizens abroad , culminating in an umbrella ban on domestic work migration in 2017 .