Migration As A Livelihood Strategy Summary

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MIGRATION AS A LIVELIHOOD STRATEGY
A GENDER PERSPECTIVE

INTRODUCTION
The article Migration as a Livelihood Strategy is written by S Sundari and she conducted a study in the Tamil Nadu with the migrant workers, or in other words S Sundari tried to focus on the female migrant workers. The article views the migration as a Gender Perspective and also highlights the pattern, trend, nature of female migration and focuses that how migration helps the females to earn their livelihood. She addresses the push and the pull factor that motivate the women for their migration and that migration later help those women to find their livelihood. The study shows both the positive as well as the negative aspects of the migration.

MIGRATION when people move from one place or location to the another place, is called migration but migration doesn't mean any casual visit or a tour from one place to the another. Migration is simply a pre-emptive move by the people, it is the survival aptitude that sometimes …show more content…

It indicates the pattern of female migrants that the migration from rural to urban is higher than the migration from urban to urban. The respondents included in this study, approx 50 percent of the respondents were dependent on agriculture. People from the least developed and the people from the areas that are prone for the drought, are forced to move to the urban areas. It was also found by the author that the mostly migration was happened during 1991-2000 and it was mainly because of the unfavorable employment opportunities for the people in rural areas. Author lists the major states from which most of the people migrate are Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and pondicherry and the major sending districts are Tirunelveli, Theni and Dindigul, Erode, Kancheepuram and Dharmapuri,

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