He said their family members back home face different types of social problems and anxiety and children feel the absence of their parents. “I want to assure you on behalf of the government that the issues of mental and physical care of the family members back home would be taken into serious consideration,” he said. The book, “Beyond Remittance: The social cost of migration on families left behind in Bangladesh”, put together the stories of migrant workers’ families. The book presents the story of ‘one in 16 Bangladeshis’ as 10 million Bangladeshis out of 160 million are working abroad, he said. He also stressed safe and orderly migration as Bangladesh led the ‘global compact on safe orderly and regular migration’ which was adopted by the UN last year in the General Assembly.

Source: bd News24 February 27, 2019 14:26 UTC