Migration, Gender and Home Economics in Rural North India

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-17671-0
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

This book critically examines the socio-economic impacts of out-migration on households and gender dynamics in rural northern India. The first of its kind, this study unearths, through detailed regional and demographical research, the ways in which economic and migratory trends of male family members in rural India in general, and hilly regions of Garhwal in particular, affect the wives, children, extended families, and agricultural lands that they have left behind. It offers vital research in how rural India’s socio-economic formations and topographic characteristics can today more effectively contribute to the national and global economy with respect to migratory trends, gender dynamics and home life. Furthermore, it investigates the collapse of agricultural and many other traditional economic activities without a corresponding creation of fresh economic opportunities. This book moreover elucidates how male out-migration from rural to urban centres has greatly re-shaped kinship and economic structures at places of origin and has consequently had a serious impact on the socio-psychological well-being of family members.

This book will be of great value to scholars and researchers of development economics, agricultural economics, environment studies, sociology, social anthropology, population studies, gender and women’s studies, social psychology, migration and diaspora studies, South Asian studies and behavioral studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

K. Nauriyal, Dinesh

Singh Negi, Nalin

K. Gairola, Rahul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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).