Excessive Mortalities among Migrant Workers: The Case of the 2022 FIFA World Cup

  • Pramod Regmi Bournemouth University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0226-3894
  • Nirmal Aryal Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bournemouth University, UK
  • Padam Simkhada University of Huddersfield, UK
  • Edwin van Teijlingen Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bournemouth University, UK
DOI: https://doi.org/10.46405/ejms.v4i0.455
Keywords: Health and Wellbeing, Migrant Worker, Left-Behinds, Human Rights, Nepal

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Published
2022-12-27
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Regmi P, Aryal N, Simkhada P, van Teijlingen E. Excessive Mortalities among Migrant Workers: The Case of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Europasian J Med Sci. [Internet]. 2022Dec.27 [cited 2024May15];4(1). Available from: https://www.europasianjournals.org/ejms/index.php/ejms/article/view/455
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Vol 4 No 1 (2022): EJMS | Issue 7
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