Labour Migration to the Middle East Countries: Recent Trends from Telangana
摘要
In the recent past, rural Telangana’s unemployed, irregular, and underpaid workers have aimed their eyes on Gulf countries for employment opportunities, better jobs, regular employment, and higher salaries. This paper explicitly addresses the sociocultural-occupational characteristics of the emigrants who migrated to Gulf countries on the one hand, and the reasons for emigration, the magnitude of emigration, patterns of employment, working, and health conditions of the emigrants in the Gulf countries on the other. It examined the aftermath effects of the Gulf migration on left-behind families. The analysis was carried out based on the data collected in 2021 from four randomly selected districts of Telangana. It revealed that unemployment, dwindling local alternative livelihood options, and outstanding debts markedly forced emigrants to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Measures to improve employment opportunities and new livelihood generation avenues in rural Telangana in an attempt to alleviate the vulnerabilities associated with the Gulf migration is the need of the hour.