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This month the SHRAM Bulletin focusses on seasonal and circular migration of labour. Seasonal migration for employment has become one of the most durable components of the livelihood strategies of people living in rural areas. Migration is not just by the very poor during times of crisis for survival and coping but has increasingly become an accumulative option for the poor and non-poor alike. Seasonal and circular migration is an important livelihood strategy for workers in developing countries and the construction industry. The impact of labour migration to this industry on workers and their families is an important research issue with significant policy implications. The SHRAM Publication sections features two important reports, one on Registration of Seasonal Workers and the other on Financial Inclusion of Poor.
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1. Report on Registration of Seasonal Migrant Workers
Aajeevika Bureau
Rural, seasonal migrant workers are a massive workforce with numbers that touch nearly a 100 million across India. They drift through the economy, often at its very bottom end, remaining largely outside the reach of state services and devoid of opportunities offered by the growing markets. Despite the major contributions migrant workers make to India’s prosperity, they suffer neglect from employers, public and government alike.
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2. Financial Inclusion for the Migrant Poor: Experience, Challenges and Data Gaps
Aajeevika Bureau
The report talks about how to enable financial inclusion of communities dependent on migration and labour via provision of financial services so that they are able to increase incomes, manage cash flows, and reduce the cost of migration. To establish a sustainable model that will serve as a glass house for financial service providers to engage with migrants.
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1. Seasonal Rural Migration: Quality of Life at Destination and Source
Prashant Bansode
The present research on quality of life of seasonal migrants has brought out bitter facts. The quality of life of sugarcane cutter migrants deteriorates sharply at destination from the nominal quality of life at their source. Moreover their basic human rights stand violated at the destination. Seasonal migrants were found worse off on the parameters of quality of life.
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2. Seasonal Labour Migration in Telangana – A Study of Mahabubnagar District
Polam Saidulu
Labour migration which is defined here as a movement of human beings away from home, undertaken with the intention of finding employment. The other fields of voluntary migration (education and marriage) as well as distress migration are considered only in those cases where they are not clearly separated from labour migration.
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Data for the occupational distribution of migrants in Uttar Pradesh across select sectors (Census 2001).
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1. Rescuing Child Bonded Labour: Initiative by PARDA
PARDA
A newspaper reported on the torture committed on some brick kiln workers he raided the brick kiln and found 19 families from Odisha were found bondage in brick kiln of Sri Yedupati Raja at Vakarivarikandriga village. The Executive magistrate issued all of them release order under The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act 1776 on 16-4-2012.Among the released bonded labours Radhesyam Kaibarta, age 12 was one of them.
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2. Mapping the South-Asian Political Landscape in the Context of Migration
Aashish Khakha
Given the current political climate in the world on the issue of migrants, refugees and the stateless, Partha S. Ghosh’s book, 'Migrants, Refugees and the Stateless in South-Asia' is a topical academic contribution on the same, addressing it within the context of South-Asia. In my mind, it is one of the first books in the 21st century to examine and the address the complexities of the issues from a historical and contemporary point of view.
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