A 30-year study of Chitwan's people reveals migration trends

Nepal Now: On the Move

If I told you about a 30-year study that has already resulted in 261 research publications, you’d be impressed right?
And if I added that the study is based in Chitwan, and co-led by a Nepali, Prof. Dirgha Ghimire? I think you’d be even more enthusiastic. At least I was when I learned about the Chitwan Valley Family Study just a month ago. I’m not sure how I missed it over the past two decades that I’ve lived here but I’m a firm believer in the adage ‘better late than never’.
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Researchers at the Chitwan Valley study, based at the University of Michigan in the US, have been contacting members of the same 152 communities for the past three decades to collect key details of their lives: births, deaths, how they’re aging, how their children are growing and much, much more. Especially key for our purposes is what happens to them—and their family members—when they migrate.

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Chitwan Valley Family Study

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Thank you to PEI in Bakhundole and Himal Media in Patan Dhoka for the use of their studios.

Nepal Now is produced and hosted by Marty Logan.

Chapters

1. A 30-year study of Chitwan's people reveals migration trends (00:00:00)

2. Dirgha saw a broken development model (00:04:39)

3. How the Study looks at migration (00:08:59)

4. Impact of the Maoist conflict (00:14:48)

5. Huge future consequences of migration (00:22:10)

6. How migration could lead to healthier children (00:25:37)