May 2012

Issues of migrant workers in the context of origin and destination - Evidence from a survey in Coimbatore City, India

  The present study attempts to examine the various reasons of migration in the context of migrant’s origin and destination. Survey method using snow ball sampling technique, to identify the sample migrant workers in Coimbatore district, India has been adopted. A total of 450 samples, classifying home based workers, regular wage paid workers and casual workers, was chosen for the study. The results of the...

Author(s): S. Jagadees Pandi

May 2012

Road wanderers in Brazil: A study on modern psychosocial human mobility

Human mobility patterns are quite diverse nowadays and a very singular, extreme pattern is seen in the Brazilian scene: road wandering. Road wanderers are individuals who leave their home, family, work and other territories of a settled life and throw themselves into a life of solitary wandering along Brazilian highways. This study aimed to describe the lifestyle of road wanderers, investigate the reasons that led them...

Author(s): José Sterza Justo and Eurípedes Costa do Nascimento,

May 2012

Migrant remittances: A driving force in rural development

  The main push factor for migration from rural communities is lack of employment opportunities for inhabitants who had high level of educational. When they migrate, they remit back to their families at communities they migrated from. Remittances play important role in rural development, and the study using Tutu in Ghana as a case study found out that as a result of money remitted to residents in the community,...

Author(s): Benzies Isaac Adu-Okoree and Adwoa Ofosua Onoma