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About 52.03% of international migrants paid their migration costs to brokers (migration facilitators), which is higher in rural areas (53.10%) compared to urban areas (48.25%), according to a recent survey by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).
Migration experts noted that the involvement of middlemen or brokers in the labour migration process leads to high expenditures for poor workers.
The “Report on Socio-Economic and Demographic Survey 2023”, published on 5 June, underscored a widespread reliance on brokers for migration costs across most divisions, except for Rangpur, where private institutions received the highest percentage of migration expenses (54.87%).
Last year, more than 1.3 million workers went abroad.
