Migrants' woes

More than a thousand families in Pakoria union of Tangail faced deception at different stages when they did send or tried to send at least one of their family members abroad, according to a survey by Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit.

The survey was conducted on 5,407 households in nine villages of Pakoria and 11 wards of Elenga. About 40 percent of the households were found to have attempted to send their family members abroad.

Members of 19 percent families failed to go abroad despite making partial or full payments for the migration process. And 32 percent families faced degrading treatment like jail, detention, extortion, blackmail, police harassment, physical and mental torture in the destination countries, according to the survey.

The findings of the survey done with the help of Prokas, a British Council project, were disclosed yesterday at an event “Consultation on Fraudulence in Processing Migration” at Dhaka University.