Labour Migration
Tushar Dakua
Citation : Tushar Dakua, Labour Migration International Journal of Research in Geography 2019, 5(1) : 9-26.
This paper analyses recent trends in the labour migration of workers/labourers of Shalbari, a tiny village in Cooch Behar district, West Bengal, India. The economy of the village is based on agriculture. There is absence of facilities like better educational institutions, health centres, sufficient agricultural land, and alternative job opportunities. It analyses the primary data based on my selected area. On the basis of these sources as well as the available micro-studies, it analyses the trends and characteristics of permanent and semi-permanent labour migration as well as short duration seasonal/circular migration. It shows the negative impacts of labour migration on village economy. It concludes by examining that labour migration have become a sheer reality in Bengal as well as India like many other developing countries, is one of the major socio-economic problems in our country. The male working population, as a socio-economic group, happened to be the most suffered of migration. Because for survival of self and family members.