A study on migrant steel workers of Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab

Human migration is the natural manifestation of socioeconomic and technological growth/development. The normal course of migration is that it takes place from relatively low developed to high developed regions/countries. The issue of migration is not a recent phenomenon in Punjab. The state however witnessed reversal of the trend and subsequent industrialization, globalizations etc, during the green revolution of sixties where large chunk of labour especially from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar find better employment opportunity in Punjab. Based on the primary and secondary data, this paper is an attempt to analyse migrant steel labourers in Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab.