Causes and Impact of Seasonal Labour Migration: A Case Study of Karabadinni Village in Manvi Taluk

Abstract

Seasonal migration in India is mostly from semi-arid zones of the country where poor households adopt seasonal migration as a routine livelihood strategy during the lean agricultural season. The present study is undertaken in a second largest arid region of India and the study relies on primary data collected from field survey. The primary focus of this study is to assess the socio-economic and demographic background of the households involved in seasonal migration as well as to examine whether it isa coping or accumulative strategy in the study area. It also tries to find out the reasons behind and impact of seasonal migration with special focus on left behinds. The majority of the households involved in seasonal migration are characterized with higher level of dependency ratio, low literacy level, agriculture as a primary source of income, marginal size of land holdings and indebtedness. The problem of seasonal or internal migration in our country is it is being looked more as a negative phenomenon than positive, This study has concluded that seasonal migration can be an engine in reduction of surplus labour from agricultural sector over the period of time.