MAPPING THE UNMET NEEDS OF MIGRANT WOMEN IN BHURAKIGARHI VILLAGE, ALIGARH DISTRICT
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v3.i2.2022.3191Keywords:
Rural Migrant Women, Social Well-Being, Unmet Needs, Gender, Qualitative DataAbstract [English]
The ethnographic study of migrant women workers focuses on the challenges and difficulties they face at their workplace. These women are seasonal migrants who come to the study area for less than two months for sapling plantations. The study will utilize social well-being indicators to discover the neglected elements of unfulfilled demands. The author also attempts to provide recommendations for each unmet need.
This study is based on qualitative research methods utilizing focus group discussions. It has been found that these migrants lack sufficient housing, and their living conditions are extremely poor, resulting in an unhygienic environment. Women get dermatitis and fissures on their hands and feet as a result of exposure to fertilizers, as well as inadequate menstrual hygiene. Instead of functioning alone, they assert their claim over public space. The salaries initially allocated to the ladies throughout the recruitment process were not provided to them. The present article maps these migratory women workers' unmet basic requirements, including several facets of social well-being. The paper also suggests policy recommendations to create places of well-being with improved living circumstances, pay, recreational alternatives, etc., which can further help meet the unmet requirements of these migrant women workers.
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