FROM KASHMIR TO KANYAKUMARI I have had the occasion to make some interesting discoveries about migration and internal displacement scenarios in India. Refugee and Migration are fairly neglected policy areas and even social interest areas in India. People largely choose to ignore it or just live with it, without any proper, well thought out response to the issues. Lack of awareness about how much it affects our day to day lives and progress in societies renders us ineffective in dealing with several core issues. To take a tiny example – when discussing poverty levels, however ludicrous the discussion, we fail to add that invisible yet conspicuously omnipresent dimension of illegal migrants working and living as construction workers and even domestics to the poverty levels discussions. The issues are extremely complex and we need to start addressing them.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 03:15:11 +0000