Migration, Gender and Home Economics in Rural North India

ISBN-13: 9781032176710 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 260 str.

Dinesh K. Nauriyal; Nalin Singh Negi; Rahul K. Gairola

Opis

This book critically examines the socio-economic impacts of out-migration on households and gender dynamics in rural northern India.

Spis treści

1 Introduction. 2 Contemporary trends of migration in India. 3 Data and methodology. 4 Profile of the sample population. 5 Patterns of farm activities. 6 Health status and treatment seeking behaviour. 7 Familial life and work participation. 8 Perceptions of husbands’ out-migrations. 9 Epilogue: of hills and homes.

O autorze

Dinesh K. Nauriyal is Professor of Economics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. He is the lead co-editor of Buddhist Thought and Applied Psychological Research (Routledge, 2006).

Nalin Singh Negi is Senior Research Manager at Vital Strategies, New Delhi, India.

Rahul K. Gairola is The Krishna Somers Lecturer in English and Postcolonial Literature and a Fellow of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University, Western Australia. He is the author of Homelandings: Postcolonial Diasporas & Transatlantic Belonging (2016).