Migration, Gender and Home Economics in Rural North India

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Author:
Dinesh K. Nauriyal, Nalin Singh Negi, Rahul K. Gairola
ISBN:
9780429537424
Related ISBNs:
9780429261831, 9780367202453, 9780367202453
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2020-03-28
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2020
Copyright by:
Dinesh K. Nauriyal, Nalin Singh Negi and Rahul K. Gairola, The right of Dinesh K. Nauriyal, Nalin Singh Negi and Rahul K. Gairola to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Mathematics and Statistics, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology