Motivational Factors of Migration among Brick Kiln Laborers: A Study of Numaligarh, Golaghat District, Assam

Abstract

Migration is an observable fact occurring all over the world and it is considered as the third component of population change- ‘mortality, and ‘fertility’ being the first two. Migration being a response of human organism to economic, social, political change in society, poses number of challenges as well as opportunities to the area concerned. But, if the process continued after certain extent, it became a nuisance and act as an obstacle in the prosperity of the region by posing numerous socio-economic difficulties. In some part of the country especially in the North eastern part of India Migration became a matter of great concern. In Assam, especially in the place like Numaligarh, Golaghat district, this phenomenon of movement of people has contributed largely to the rapid growth of the state population leaving both the migrants and the residents of the area in a very unwanted and malicious situation The present study deals with the District of Golaghat, where there is a large concentration of brick kilns and remarkable increase in migrants are seen in the area who is mainly working in the brick kilns.