Gendered Mobility and Morality in a South-Eastern Mexican Community: Impacts of Male Labour Migration on the Women Left Behind

Mobilities ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie McEvoy ◽  
Peggy Petrzelka ◽  
Claudia Radel ◽  
Birgit Schmook
Keyword(s):  
Labour Migration ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Mexican Community ◽  
Community Impacts ◽  
Male Labour

scholarly journals Informal Labours in Kolkata City: Migration from Undivided Bihar and Uttar Pradesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-153
Author(s):  
Sumita Roy ◽  
Gopa Samanta
Keyword(s):  
Census Data ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Migration Pattern ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Single Male ◽  
The City ◽  
Male Labour

Migration takes place due to various social, cultural, economic or political reasons. Previous Census reports of India show that employment-induced out-migration is a common feature of several states like Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and other states. In the case of Kolkata, informal labours have enormous employment opportunities in big business centres and small manufacturing units of the city. With the help of D-series Census Data of the years 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001 and 2011, this study focuses on the migration pattern and the reasons for migration to Kolkata. Secondary data fails to give an idea about the migration pattern of non-Bengali informal labours in the city. Through intensive field survey, the present study tries to identify the dominance of non-Bengali single (without family) male labour migration and to explore the migration streams to the informal sectors of Kolkata. With the help of both secondary data on migration over different decades and by using the primary data, the article argues that non-Bengali migrants represent the informal labour community in Kolkata especially from undivided Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, and the pattern of migration is mainly occupation-induced single male labour migration.

Labour Migration and Health of Left-Behind Children in China

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lianlian Lei ◽  
Feng Liu ◽  
Elaine Hill
Keyword(s):  
Labour Migration ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Migration And Health

Impact of Economic Labour Migration: A Qualitative Exploration of Left-Behind Family Member Perspectives in Sri Lanka

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 885-894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chesmal Siriwardhana ◽  
Kolitha Wickramage ◽  
Kaushalya Jayaweera ◽  
Anushka Adikari ◽  
Sulochana Weerawarna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

scholarly journals Myth and Reality in Irregular Migration from Myanmar

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Ko Ko Si Thu
Keyword(s):  
Public Perception ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Irregular Migration ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Irregular Migrants ◽  
Left Behind

<p>Migration studies is an interdisciplinary study within a broader field of development studies due to its association with debates about development and underdevelopment. Irregular migration is one of the most significant topics in migration studies and its complex nature has attracted many scholars from around the world. Most literature on irregular migration has focused on its illegality and the situation of irregular migrants in the destination country and therefore, much of the previous literature on irregular migration only presents the process as a dangerous and abusive phenomenon for irregular migrants, and depicts brokers and agents as evil and exploitative. Public perception and policy discussions are dominated by myths, rather than facts, about debts and danger. These established myths often overshadow the reality about the impacts of irregular migration as experienced by actual migrants and their local communities. These confused interpretations of irregular migration highlight a need for further research.  This thesis examines a case of cross-border irregular migration from Myanmar to Thailand in order to explore the impacts of irregular migration in a wider field. Its main purpose is to investigate the processes and impacts of irregular migration on families left behind in sending areas. This is achieved by employing a qualitative case study approach to gain deeper understanding of the topic in the local context, using two data collection methods: participant observation and semi-structured interviews. The study hypothesizes that irregular migration in the Myanmar context conforms less to the “evil” image, than to the patterns of conventional labour migration described by the “New Economics of Labour Migration” theory. The main research questions posed to achieve these aims were: What are the processes of irregular migration? What are its impacts on families left behind? How are these impacts different from the impacts resulting from legal migration?  The study draws two main conclusions. First, human smuggling operations in this study’s context are based on the personal contacts, and therefore irregular migration is often accomplished with the help of friends, relatives or siblings of the migrants themselves and not by hostile, exploitative smugglers. Secondly, departing from the traditional notion that irregular migration is harmful, the findings from this study suggest that the social and economic impacts resulting from irregular migration are surprisingly similar to the impacts of conventional international migration in many respects.</p>

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