Dynamics of Migration in Kerala: Dimensions, Differentials, and ConsequencesThis book is a systematic study (the first of its kind) of the impact of migration on Kerala s community and society. It looks at the number of emigrants and return emigrants and their impact on unemployment and self-employment; impact of remittances on household income and poverty, and the impact of migration on the elderly and women. |
Contents
A Historical Review | 12 |
THREE Characteristics of Households Population | 74 |
Trends and Patterns | 113 |
FIVE Causes Costs and Financing of Migration | 146 |
SIX Demographic Consequences of Migration | 170 |
Special | 266 |
NINE Gender Dimensions in Kerala Migration | 309 |
TEN Migration and the Elderly | 340 |
ELEVEN Summary and Conclusions | 380 |
Epilogue | 449 |
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100 households age group Alap Alappuzha district average birth rate census cent Community consequences of migration demographic destination difference economic elderly persons emigrant households Emigrants and Out-migrants emigrants from Kerala emigration rate employment Ernakulam Ezhawas factors female emigrants Gulf countries Gulf wives higher households with emigrants husbands Idukki in-migrants increase India internal migration Kannur Kasargode districts Keralites Kollam Kottayam Kozhikode labour large number Latin Christians living major Malappuram district Malayalis Males Females Persons married women migrant households migration from Kerala migration rate Migration Status Muslims Nairs non-migrant households number of emigrants number of households number of married number of return Occupation old-age homes out-migrant households Palakkad Pathanamthitta problems proportion of females puzha gode sample remittances return emigrants return migrants return out-migrants Sample Households scheduled castes SCs/STs secondary school certificate self-employment survey Syrian Christians Taluk Thiruvananthapuram Thrissur Thrissur district total number unemployed Wayanad Whole sample workers