SOCIO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE MIGRANTS OF SELECT HOTELS IN NORTH GOA.

Abstract

Human migration is an age-old phenomenon that stretches back to the earliest periods of human history. In the modern era, emigration and immigration continue to provide States, societies and migrants with many opportunities. At the same time, migration has emerged in the last few years as a critical political and policy challenge in matters such as integration, displacement, safe migration and border management. Migrants are very often subjected to new social and living conditions in their new settlements. The unfavourable distress factors push them to the urban centers with the intent of saving a part of their income. But they are  often exploited by the middlemen and other agents. The vulnerable sections of migrants are women and children.

The number of international migrants globally in 2019 was 272 million (3.5% of the world’s population). India had the largest number of migrants living abroad (17.5 million), followed by Mexico and China (11.8 million and 10.7 million respectively). The top destination country remained the United States (50.7 million international migrants). Internal migration is even more prevalent, with the most recent global estimate indicating that more than 740 million people had migrated within their own country of birth. The reasons of migrations have been many such as displacements due to lack of security for life, employment opportunities, natural disasters and so on. The magnitude of internal migration is about two-and-a-half times that of international migration. These migrants get absorbed in areas wherever they get some avenue for earnings. Goa, though a small state also has migrants which had been increasing at an alarming rate. The paper has analyzed the socio-economic status of the migrants in the select hotels of North Goa. It was found that, though illiterate, most of the migrants on an average were satisfied with their economic benefits, but had grudges with the civic amenities. They had also contributed to the creation of demand in the economy.