Our workers in Italy facing deportation is a great concern, but there are no jobs in the country

Nearly 20,000 Bangladeshi undocumented migrant workers in Italy are at risk of repatriation home by December. Several thousand Bangladeshis go to Italy every year. As of June 2022, about 21,848 irregular migrants entered Italy through various illegal means, which is 22 per cent more than last year. Around 250,000 Bangladeshi migrant workers are working in different sectors, mainly in Agriculture, in Italy. However, 40, 000 of them are undocumented, and of them, 20,000 might be repatriated soon as the winning coalition promised to take tough anti-migration laws.
In these circumstances, the Bangladeshi Diasporas are in fear of being arrested and deported due to the far-right government’s anti-asylum seekers and anti-migrant stances. Many European and Middle East countries deported illegal migrants after the breakout of Covid-19 and the economic stagnation. As Bangladesh’s government drastically failed to create enough decent employment for the youth generation, millions of job-seeking adamant youths take the risky path to reach any European country with the help of traffickers. Many of them landed in the destined country or any middle country without proper documents, while some of them perished in the Mediterranean Sea or in custody run by governments or transnational traffic gangs.
The incumbent regime neither created enough employment opportunities for youth nor provided diplomatic support for the illegal migrants in many destinations. The foreign currency remitters, the real heroes of Bangladesh’s economy, earn for the country without getting minimum support from the government though. The remitters are violated abroad inhumanely while the government runs the state by their remittance and the economy is boosting, but the earners are not a subject matter of the government. Strong diplomatic ties for national interest should be prioritised now, and without national interest, we cannot protect and support the remittance heroes.
We ask the foreign ministry and expatriate welfare ministry to provide all-out support to the remittance senders everywhere as it is a duty of the government.