TROUBLES AND SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES FACED BY THE OVERSEA WORKERS AND THEIR LIVELIHOODS

AUTHOR – T.AMITHA, SCHOLAR FROM TAMIL NADU DR AMBEDKAR LAW UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI

BEST CITATION – T.AMITHA, TROUBLES AND SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES FACED BY THE OVERSEA WORKERS AND THEIR LIVELIHOODS, ILE MULTIDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL, 4 (1) OF 2025, PG. 411-422, APIS – 3920-0007 | ISSN – 2583-7230

ABSTRACT

                 This article seeks to address some of the issues related to overseas workers and their livelihoods. The people seek the work outside their home country they are considered as overseas workers and may be called guest workers or expatriates. Usually they are facing the legal and immigration problem and they are suffered lots of poor working conditions, cultural and social changes. This paper analyses the oversea works health and their wellbeing issues. They are emotionally affected separation from their family and they face the difficulties to adopt the environmental sustainability concern. Overseas workers hard to survive to their working country and then they are subsequently deals with various languages and the hard task to handling to communicate the employer and co-workers of their company. They unable to manage pandemic related challenges such time their family member also face the financial economic challenges. Overseas workers not aware to the basic laws and human rights related their working country. Overseas workers not enjoying a benefits offered by their home country. In my research on this topic views on the overseas workers in constitution and legal perspective includes what all are the important case laws related to overseas workers. International conventions and recommendations related to the overseas workers. Finally I recommend throw this article measures will be taken in feature to prevent problems faced by the overseas workers and I suggest the idea to the government to protect the overseas workers’ rights. 

Keywords – Overseas workers-guest workers- expatriates-wellbeing issues-Environmental Sustainability-International conventions-Immigration, problem-Pandemic-Co-workers-Recommendations-Workers rights.