Kerala Migration
Migration is a movement of people from one country or state to another. The migration status of Kerala is increasing at the increasing rate. Migration in Kerala started to Gulf countries in 1970s. Because in 1970s, Gulf countries discovered oil and massive keralites moved. In early people also move to Indian states like Bombay, Chennai etc. The migrate people work hardly and they built their dreams in their own land and after a years of hard work, they come and settle their own land
According to NORKA, Keralites
are working in 182 countries out of 195 countries in the world. Majority of
Keralites working in United Arab Emirates(UAE). The rich countries like a
Canada, Japan have less younger population. Such less younger population
countries attract more immigrants. They offering instant employment, family
visa, free education for children, personal freedom, a better standard of
living, social security, respect for work, permanent residence and citizenship.
The major reason behind the migration is income( remittance) difference between
own country and designation countries. People moving for better career growth
and higher earning. Most of the common people in Kerala live good part of in foreign countries. They may miss home country and their family.
Students in Kerala coin
for higher education to developing countries like Britain, USA, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, Germany, etc.
They also going to countries as Barbados, Kyrgyzstan, Slovenia and Slovakia.
The reason behind the migration of younger is lack of jobs, lack of
infrastructure. They are so facing limited state to problem in government institution,
exploiting fees in non governmental institutions in our country. Students
pursue highly quality education from foreign country and also they get many
scholarship programmes. And students can do part time work with their study.
These are the major reasons the students in Kerala will pursue their education
in abroad.
Vacant houses are most
common in Southern Kerala. 1.2 million vacant households in Kerala. one in five families in
Kerala have a migrant member. The vacant houses mostly belong to the migrants. Vacant
house termed ghost house in the context of migration in Kerala. Their children settle
abroad, the houses are vacant after they passed away. The number of The number of old age homes also increased.
The migrate people sent their parents in old age homes. The root of family is
ruined here. The concept of nuclear family is also ruined. And it also ruined
the traditions and culture of own land.These are darken shade of migration.
Every five
year Kerala government conduct a migration survey. The Kerala migration
survey (KMS) was first started in 1998
under the leadership of Professor K C Zachariah and professor is Irudaya Rajan.
The primary purpose of this survey is collected data on immigrants, emigrant,
return emigrant, out migrant, return out migrant and their remittance. The
Kerala migration survey of 2023 conducted by the Gulati Institute of Finance
And Taxation(GIFT) under the direction of Dr S Irudaya Rajan. Government is
implement lot of programmes for NRI people.
People who migrated expecting
better standard of living. Lack of jobs, Poor salaries for educated people as
per their educational qualification , poor higher education quality,
corruption, in efficient government officials, poor physical infrastructure, frequent
strikes and hartal are the reason for increasing migration.
Rinju Unnikrishnan. P, Assistant Professor of Economics, Al Shifa College of Arts and Science, Kizhattoor, Perinthalmanna.
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