Rehabilitation initiatives taken for returnee migrant workers: Expat Minister

The government has taken initiatives for the socio-economic rehabilitation of the returnee migrant workers, Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad said Tuesday. ''Efforts to retrain returnee migrants and sending them back abroad as skilled workers are continuing,'' he told the 12th meeting of the parliamentary standing committee on his

Unemployment of returning migrants dropped, challenges increased: IOM

Key findings of a recent report of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) indicate that in the months after the government lifted the nationwide lockdown, more returnees were able to find jobs, reports of health and psychosocial challenges declined, household-level food access or food security improved. However, household debt had increased