कठिन पाईलाहरू Hard Steps is a publication resulting from the photographic and research project Nepal/Odemira by Nelson Miranda and edited by Susana Lourenço Marques (Pierrot le Fou). This project explores issues of migration, focusing on the Nepali population resident in Odemira (in southern Portugal) and on the places, communities and families, in Nepal, from where they departed. The edition reproduces photographs and testimonies taken in Portugal between 2020-2023 and in Nepal (April-June 2023).
It is a look at the impact of the expansion of this community – one of the fastest growing in Portugal in recent years (in percentage terms) – and which came originally to fulfil the lack of labour in the agricultural sector that thrives in that region.
The publication includes photographs, headlines from Portuguese and Nepalese newspapers, testimonies from relatives of migrants, texts by writer Manjushree Thapa, journalist Bhrikuti Rai and sociologist Pedro Góis.
Photography and research: Nelson Miranda
Publisher: Susana Lourenço Marques (Pierrot le Fou)
Texts: Bhrikuti Rai, Manjushree Thapa, Pedro Góis
Design: Atelier d’Alves
Translation: Sewa Bhattarai, Bina Bhattarai, Stella Fletcher, Nelson Miranda
Interpreters and transcribers: Lhakpa Sherpa, Aseem Banstola, Anup Adhikari
Printing: Gráfica Maiadouro
Language: Portuguese, English, Nepali
With the support of Orient Foundation
Edition financed by Directorate-General for the Arts
Book 176 p., 340 x 250 mm
First edition, 300
