Impact of Labour Migration in Livelihood A Sociological Study of Shree Krishna GandakiVDC, Syangja District
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2011
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Department o fSociology/Anthropology, Prithvi Narayan Campus,Pokhara
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Theword 'Migration' means the movement of people from one geographicalplace to another. People have been migrating fromone place to another such asfrom rural area to urban, least or developing countries to advanced or developedcountries in a large number for their livelihood. In thisresearch, I aim to study therole of labour migration for livelihood among the people of Shree Krishna GandakiVDC, Syangja district, with focus on labour migration to abroad. Labour migrationis themain source of many Nepali people.Labour migration inNepal has a longhistory. About 200 years ago, Nepali started to seek work abroad and sentremittances back to their families in Nepal. In the early 19th century, for instance,Nepali men migrated to Lahore(now is inPakistan) to join army. Later on Nepalesemigrated to
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foreign labour, remittance