Migraion of Women Labour: An Empirical Study in Mahaboob Nagar District of Talangana State

INTRODUCTION Internal migration is an important factor, which affects the economic development of developing countries like India. In India, although literature on internal migration in general is abundant, little attention was given in the sociological research to the causes and nature of female migration in India and the impact of migration on women (Mazumdar, 1990; Singhal, 1995). Research works on female migrants in other countries have made it clear that there is special need for field research and new methods of investigation. Much of what we know today of female migration in India is derived from census statistics. Census based studies traditionally view women migrating as wives and daughters of the breadwinners. This presents a biased picture of female migration in India as being dominated by low status of women moving to the major metropolises /towns where they become one of the primary examples of the social and economic marginality section of society. Even within towns/metropolises, the reference framework has many times been a segment of the city population usually slum dwellers.