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Bandita Sijapati
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Bandita Sijapati

Bandita Sijapati is Research Director at the Centre for the Study of Labour and Mobility (CESLAM) at the Social Science Baha in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Dr. Sijapati has served with the World Bank, United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Her main fields of expertise are labor governance, migration, political transitions, and development. She has published a number of works on a range of topics, including transnationalism, labor markets, gender and inclusion, migration governance, democratization, poverty and conflict.

She received her PhD from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and has a master’s degree from Columbia University, New York, and a bachelor’s from Macalester College, Minnesota.

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Policy Briefs
March 2015

Women’s Labour Migration from Asia and the Pacific: Opportunities and Challenges

The number of women migrants in many countries in the Asia-Pacific region is on the rise. While migration can provide unique opportunities for female workers to improve their livelihoods and gain greater autonomy, it also exposes them to new types of vulnerability and discrimination. This brief looks at the trends and patterns in female labor migration in the Asia-Pacific region as well as key policy challenges relating to female migration.