Jamil Mahmud

Unemployed Bangladeshi migrants in Greece are going to have an opportunity of institutional skills training facilitated by the Bangladesh embassy there that will benefit them getting jobs amid the coronavirus pandemic.

At least 12,746 undocumented Bangladeshi migrants in Italy have applied for regularisation under an Italian government-declared amnesty programme which is scheduled to end today.

Thousands of expatriate Bangladeshis employed in the Middle East but currently stranded at home for months amid the coronavirus pandemic have been facing difficulties flying to their destinations due to limited access to air tickets.

Bangladeshi migrant workers in Bahrain are seeing fresh employment opportunities amid the coronavirus pandemic, as some local employers there, especially in the construction sector, are opening up jobs for such workers.

When the coronavirus pandemic is already dealing a heavy blow to the country’s overseas job markets, Kuwait has approved a bill that, once passed, may force about two lakh Bangladeshi migrant workers out of the Gulf country.

After several months of wait in Bangladesh, expatriate worker Enamur Rahim was scheduled to fly back to Italy next week.

Over 1.50 lakh Bangladeshis are eagerly waiting to return to their workplaces and studies abroad amid a shortage of tickets for the limited number of flights leaving Dhaka.

In contrast to their major contribution to the country’s economy, thousands of migrant workers living abroad have received little or no help from Bangladesh government to fight their financial hardship during the pandemic.

Over 14,000 Bangladeshi migrant workers have returned home since April from 10 countries, showed data of Expatriates’ Welfare Desk at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Thousands of readymade garment workers in Gazipur have been passing days in uncertainty as over four dozen factories remain closed for more than two months in the coronavirus fallout.

After a day’s hard work, Omar Faruque Shipon spends time from evening to night raising awareness about coronavirus, which greatly helps his fellow Bangladeshi migrant workers in Singapore.

Many Bangladeshi migrant workers are going through a tough time in Iraq due to the shutdown enforced in the country.

Human trafficking to Libya from Bangladesh and torture of victims for ransom have been quite common for years but such crimes come to light only after a terrible tragedy.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said the government demanded the Libyan authorities quickly investigate and punish those who killed 26 Bangladeshis and four Africans in a “revenge attack”.

Some 87 percent of 558 returnee migrant workers do not have income opportunities amid the shutdown enforced to contain coronavirus spread, said a Brac Migration Programme report.

Some 7,000 to 8,000 Bangladeshi migrant workers in Bahrain have lost their jobs due to economic shutdown enforced by the country’s government to contain coronavirus pandemic, an official at Bangladesh embassy in Manama said yesterday.

Over one lakh Bangladeshis in different Middle Eastern countries are suffering acute hunger while many other Bangladeshis have become unemployed amid the shutdown of economies across the world.

Lipi Akter started processing her migration to Saudi Arabia in early March, expecting financial solvency there will help her raise her children back home.

The coronavirus fallout and slumping oil prices may lead to the deportation of up to 10 lakh Bangladeshi migrant workers from Saudi Arabia in the next three to five years, according to the Bangladesh mission there.

The government of Bahrain this month declared an amnesty programme for undocumented migrant workers to get regularised. This should come as good news for undocumented Bangladeshi workers in the Gulf nation, about 30,000 of whom are expected to avail the programme which runs until December 31 this year.