Male Out-migration and Women in Rural Bihar: A Socio-legal Study

Abstract

The gender dimension within the migration studies began to be explored since the 1970s.1 But the focal points were about the women who migrated, reasons of their migration from the source location and their experiences of integration with the destination locations. The scope of the gender dimension started to broaden during the 1990s-2000s as the migration studies delved deeper and incorporated women who were not migrants themselves but were fundamentally affected due to migration of their male counterparts.2 In fact, initial studies by Indian scholars about this dimension started appearing in the late 1980s.3