Reasons of Migration
Search of new and/or better employment has been one of the most important reasons for migration of workers. In fact more than two third of the migrants gave ‘search for employment’ and ‘better wage’ as the primary reason of their migration. However, there are also various other socio-economic reasons, which contribute to large scale exodus of population from the region (Table 6).
Here we have also identified the reasons for migration and, with a particular end in mind, for how long a migrant stays away from the village. Although marriage has been one of the most important reasons of migration, particularly in case of females, this has been kept out of our analysis in order to focus on non-voluntary causes of migration. Some of the reasons for migration identified during the course of data collection, were employment (on hired basis), better wages, self employment, study, avoiding factionalism within the village, accompanying with migrating family, job transfer, etc.
Table 6: Percentage Distribution of Migrants for different Time Periods by Reasons of Migration
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Months away after migration
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Up to 3 months
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4 to 6 months
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7 to 9 months
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More than 9 months
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Duration not specified
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Total
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| Reasons of migration | ||||||
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in search of employment
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42.63
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42.74
|
44.85
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31.00
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42.59
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38.69
|
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for better wage
|
49.84
|
49.67
|
33.22
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27.57
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44.44
|
38.23
|
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for self employment
|
0.94
|
1.71
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2.16
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3.92
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1.85
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2.55
|
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study
|
0.94
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0.19
|
0.33
|
1.06
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1.85
|
0.65
|
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fight/tension in the village
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0.09
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0.66
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3.92
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9.26
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1.78
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follow/accompany family
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1.88
|
1.90
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6.48
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3.18
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3.20
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got job/transfer of job
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2.19
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3.32
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10.96
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27.16
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13.55
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Others
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1.57
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0.38
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1.33
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2.20
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1.35
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Total
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100.00
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100.00
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100.00
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100.00
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100.00
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100.00
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