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VOL. 12, ISSUE 9 (2025)
Plight of left behind women of seasonal labour migrant households: A case study of Nuapada district of Odisha
Authors
Saptaparna Mishra, Krishna Chandra Rath
Abstract
This article echoes the plight of left behind women of seasonal migrant
households, a less explored area in migration research study. This is mainly a
qualitative study where we found how these women single handedly manage the
household chores along with the elderly persons and their children in the
absence of their spouse. Severe drought, failure of agriculture, destruction of
forest and traditional livelihood, huge unemployment, rampant poverty and debt
compels more and more labourers to migrate temporarily to the torturous brick
kilns and construction sites of other states in hope of high remittance every
year with increasing numbers leaving their spouses behind while the left behind
women embrace the precarious life and shoulder all the responsibility in lack
of all basic facilities enduring all the hardship, stress, trauma,
helplessness, loneliness to manage the house in absence of the male members.
Here the study area Nuapada district is one of the poorest district of India
situated in the Western parts of Odisha is a key supplier of migrant labourers
and infamous for drought poverty, malnutrition, unemployment and starvation
death. But such a sensitive issue is yet to be addressed and included in the
policy making.
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Pages:65-70
How to cite this article:
Saptaparna Mishra, Krishna Chandra Rath "Plight of left behind women of seasonal labour migrant households: A case study of Nuapada district of Odisha". International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development, Vol 12, Issue 9, 2025, Pages 65-70
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