IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

Inter-State Migrant Labourers in Tamil Nadu: Issues, and Dimensions

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Dr. C. Venkatachalam

Abstract

Migration is not a new concept, since time immemorial people migrant one or the other reasons which are typically called push and pull factors. Push factors encourage people to leave their points of origin and settle elsewhere, while pull factors attract migrants to new areas. Unemployment, and underemployment, are the common push factors, while plenty of incomegeneration activities, better academic institutions, and health facilities are playing vital roles as effective pull factors. Although it is impossible to know precisely why each migrant decided to leave their place of origin to settle elsewhere for a short duration, or a longer period, it is possible to outline general push factors motivating emigration from different areas. Migration is defined as movement from one nation, dwelling, or area to another. Ever since the earliest humans commenced to banquet from Africa, humans have been on the move. Even today, 3.00% of the world’s population, or at least 258 million people as of date live outside of their country of origin, it is either voluntary or forced, and migration has intensely formed our world. There are a variety of migrations have been identified by the researchers such as internal migration: moving within a state, nation, or continent, external migration: moving to a different state, country, or even continent, emigration: leaving one nation to move to another, immigration: moving into a new nation, return migration: moving back to where one has come from seasonal migration: moving with each period or in reply to work or weather circumstances (www.nationalgeographic.org). According to existing information, from the Census of India 2011, the number of internal migrations including inter-state migration thirty-six crore people are migrants claimed as more than one-third of the (37.00%) India’s total population. People migrate to various states to find out about poverty reduction in families’ remittance of money on one hand and several challenges are for them to come across in the place of settlement. This is one of the areas that Social Scientists in general and Sociologists, in particular, have in-depth research to understand through empiricism. There are over 34.87 lakh migrant laborers across the country who have settled in Tamil Nadu, out of them significant numbers of 7.13 lakh are women (Press Information Bureau, 2022) As per the census 2011, the total number of internal migrants in India is 36 crore or more than one-third (37.00%) of India’s total population. The major origin states of internal migration are Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Odisha. Major destination states ofinternal migration are Maharashtra, Delhi, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Punjab. With this backdrop, this paper throws light on inter-state migration takes place in Tamil Nadu from a Sociological perspective since migration is the third decisive factor of population after fertility and mortality, Beyond these contributory factors, the social, cultural, economic, and political parameters too to be understood to explore the trend of social change, different issues of the migrants, and the dimensions given by the Everett Lee, and Ravenstein with help of their systematic theoretical approaches.

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