Abstract
After the adoption of liberal economic policy, Nepal entered into the international work force market. Human resource moves abroad seeking for employment opportunities. The globalization of workforce on one hand benefit to the country with a huge amount of inward remittance and on the other brings different bi-products in the country. The physical and emotional effects on the left-behind children [LBC] have come on the forefront as a burning issue. Absence of parents in the family has resulted in children’s sedentary and complicated life as well. 
 
 However, health-related problems such as cough or respiratory difficulties and diarrhoea have been a major concern among the LBC. The absence of guardians results in nutritional problems such as height / weight for the age. Out of the parents, mother’s migration results in severe consequences. It does not only have an effect on children’s basic immunization and breastfeeding, but also effects on personal hygiene and sanitation. However, affordability of better diet, fancy outfits and health care facilities has been available to LBC with their growing access to remittance.
Highlights
With the dawn of globalization, the numbers of migrant people have been growing throughout the world
The aims of this study are to map and converse about the available literature on the role of remittances on health of LBC. This literature supports to add by undertaking the matter on how the literature view the effect of remittances on better diet, fancy outfits and health care facilities
Of being at interactions between remittances on the one hand, and health on the other, this review reflects on the following questions: what is the significance of migration and remittances for the developing countries? How parental international migration [PIM] effect on LBC’s health?
Summary
With the dawn of globalization, the numbers of migrant people have been growing throughout the world. The majority of the migrants comprises of labour migrants living in a low and middle-economic status and the job seekers (International Organization for Migration [IOM], 2019). Regarding to Nepalese history on international labour migration [ILM], it can be traced back to the Sugauli treaty of 1816 (Ferrie & Hatton, 2015). Since Britain started to recruit Nepali Gurkhas as mercenaries for East India Company (Ferrie & Hatton, 2015). Some one hundred thousands of Nepalese Gurkhas served the British Kingdom during both the world wars (IOM, 2019). Since the mid-1980s, Nepalese started to migrate to the Gulf states and Malaysia for work (International Labour Organization [ILO], 2018)
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