Migration and Migrants Dependant

ISBN-13: 9783659744174 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 52 str.

Vilas Balgaonkar

Opis

Rural to urban migration has gained increasing prominence in the past few years as national policy initiative for balanced regional & area development, policy guidelines of government. Accordingly, the present study has been undertaken with the objective of impact of migration on livelihood of migrants dependent or family members who left behind. Elderly parents, wives, children and other family members considered for the study. This book addresses to the impact of migration on social empowerment, economic empowerment and economic progress. For evaluating the impact it considered various dimensions like parental health, wives emotions and children's education with their behavior and health With five hundred respondents from western Maharashtra region of Maharashtra state in India, this empirical study found two major reasons for migration which categorized in push and pull which includes socio-cultural, economic, environmental and political factors. It also found migration has direct impact on social & economic empowerment and economic progress. Study shows positive as well as negative impact on the respondents, positive impact on poverty reduction, social recognisation, health.

O autorze

Balgaonkar, Vilas
Vilas Balgaonkar is an Assistant Professor in the Hirachand Nemchand College of Commerce University of Solapur & Research Scholar at Tata Institute of Social Science. The author has more than 12 years teaching & research experience. He has been member on editorial body of international journals. He has also got twenty five research papers published