Department of Economics, Rabindra Bharati University, Emerald Bower Campus, 56A, B.T. Road, Kolkata-700 050, West Bengal, India
*Corresponding author: urmibasu86@gmail.com (ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6635-7123)
Online published on 15 October, 2019.
Musrshidabad can well be labelled as one of the most backward districts [Human Development Index (HDI) of Murshidabad is 0.46] in West Bengal. There are a host of factors which have contributed to such a poor reflection of the district's HDI. Absence of any major industries, lack of employment opportunities, rapid growth in number joining the workforce and so many other factors have led to low per capita income of this district, making it literally a seedbed for out-migration of regular and casual labourers-skilled/un-skilled/or low-skilled. People in huge numbers from here have, for the recent last few decades, been migrating not only to different parts of the country but abroad as well. This paper studies the migration from various angles. It has been observed that migrants from here have been using fixed routes connecting the places of origin and the destinations-thus establishing certain migration corridors. Focus has specially been attached to explore categorically these migration corridors and the contacts or intermediaries associated with the operation of these channels perennially. The issue of remittances has been carefully examined. On the whole, this paper investigates different distinctive facets of out-migration from Murshidabad district of West Bengal.
Perceptible Migration Corridors from Murshidabad have been identified.
Both international and inter-state migration have been observed as perennially operational in this district.
Out-migrants’ migration profile are explored.
Migration corridors, Murshidabad migrants, Migration to Saudi Arabia, Inter-state migration
