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The practice of migrationMigration from SundarbansSundarbans (India) has become a normal phenomenon, mainly after cycloneCyclone Aila (2009), and it also again rises due to the cyclonicCyclonic damageDamage of cyclone AmphanAmphan (2020). Amphan made the situation most vulnerableVulnerable and compelled the coastalCoastal people to migrateMigrate, though it was on a temporaryTemporary basis as migrantMigrant workers. This migrationMigration could be called climatic migration. The chapter’s main objective is to understand the migration pattern and the socio-economicSocio-economic condition of both migrant and non-migrantMigrant households. The study was executed through empirical data collected from 750 householdsHouseholds by random sampling and categorized as migrantMigrant householdsHouseholds, meaning a minimum of one person migrated from their family, and no one migrated from a family treated as a non-migrantMigrant household. The finding revealed that the majority of the migrants are young and belong to lower backward communitiesCommunities socially and also economically, like the SC and Muslim communitiesCommunities, having low landholdingLandholding capacityCapacity, interpreting the low resilientResilient people have more chances to migrateMigrate to another place as migrantsMigrant work. Most people migrateMigrate from the SundarbansSundarbans to the southern states of India, like Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka, where job opportunitiesOpportunities and labor wages are also high compared to their native place. The majority of the migrantMigrant laborers work in the construction sector, and they also come back to their homes twice a year. The study also found that their income is raised after migrationMigration. They initially construct concreteConcrete houses through their remittance, become more resilientResilient, and enhance their quality of life compared to non-migrantMigrant householdsHouseholds. This migration, as revealed by the study, is not just a response to the adverse effects of the cyclonesCyclone, but also an adaptationAdaptation strategy for the coastalCoastal dwellers to cope with the changingClimate climate.

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Pattern and Socio-economic Condition of Rural Migrants from Coastal Sundarbans

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    2025年

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  • Pintu Mandal,
  • Suman Paul

摘要

The practice of migrationMigration from SundarbansSundarbans (India) has become a normal phenomenon, mainly after cycloneCyclone Aila (2009), and it also again rises due to the cyclonicCyclonic damageDamage of cyclone AmphanAmphan (2020). Amphan made the situation most vulnerableVulnerable and compelled the coastalCoastal people to migrateMigrate, though it was on a temporaryTemporary basis as migrantMigrant workers. This migrationMigration could be called climatic migration. The chapter’s main objective is to understand the migration pattern and the socio-economicSocio-economic condition of both migrant and non-migrantMigrant households. The study was executed through empirical data collected from 750 householdsHouseholds by random sampling and categorized as migrantMigrant householdsHouseholds, meaning a minimum of one person migrated from their family, and no one migrated from a family treated as a non-migrantMigrant household. The finding revealed that the majority of the migrants are young and belong to lower backward communitiesCommunities socially and also economically, like the SC and Muslim communitiesCommunities, having low landholdingLandholding capacityCapacity, interpreting the low resilientResilient people have more chances to migrateMigrate to another place as migrantsMigrant work. Most people migrateMigrate from the SundarbansSundarbans to the southern states of India, like Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka, where job opportunitiesOpportunities and labor wages are also high compared to their native place. The majority of the migrantMigrant laborers work in the construction sector, and they also come back to their homes twice a year. The study also found that their income is raised after migrationMigration. They initially construct concreteConcrete houses through their remittance, become more resilientResilient, and enhance their quality of life compared to non-migrantMigrant householdsHouseholds. This migration, as revealed by the study, is not just a response to the adverse effects of the cyclonesCyclone, but also an adaptationAdaptation strategy for the coastalCoastal dwellers to cope with the changingClimate climate.