Seasonal Migration and Welfare/Illfare in Eastern India: A Social Analysis
By B. Rogaly, Daniel Coppard, Abdur Safique, K. Rana, Amrita Sengupta, J. Biswas. 2002
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Over 500,000 people are regularly engaged in seasonal migration for rice work into southern West Bengal. This paper analyses social processes at work in the interactions between employers and workers, and the welfare/illfare outcomes. Group identities based on religion and ethnicity are strengthened through the experience of migration and deployed by some migrants to make this form of employment less degrading. In West Bengal seasonal migration can involve practical welfare gains. Importantly, an informal wage floor has been put into place and managed by the peasant union allied to the largest party in the Left Front regime. However, the costs and risks of migration remain high.
Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Migration and Human Development in India (2009, background): “Similarly paddy transplanting and harvesting in the Bardhmann region of West Bengal attracts around 500,000 migrant workers every season (Rogaly et al 2001, 2002).”
- Caste and Tribe Inequality: Evidence from India, 1983–1999 (2006, background): “Despite such policies and rural development programs to raise the levels of living of scheduled castes (SC) and scheduled tribes (ST), many studies have reported that the disparities of living standards with the non-SC/ST still remain (Bhengra, Bijoy, and Lutthui 1999; Deshpande 2000; Dreze and Sen ”
- Rural livelihoods and poverty reduction policies. (2005, unknown): “The migration of household members to take advantage of differing seasonal patterns of farm production elsewhere (rural—rural migration) and of non-farm jobs in the off-season (rural—urban migration) are responses to the seasonality problem, and several case studies of these patterns have been detai”
- Internal Migration, Poverty and Development in Asia: Including the Excluded (2006, background): “For example, research in the drought-prone areas of West Bengal by Rogaly et al. (2002) estimates that over 500,000 lower caste people migrate seasonally to the rice-growing areas of the state.”
- Internal migration and development : a global perspective (2005, background): “Most garment workers are migrants and they remit earnings home (Sok et al., 2001). Remittances can account for a substantial proportion of household incomes especially for the poor: in Morocco remittances from urban to rural areas are estimated to account for as much as 30 per cent of the income of ”