Impacts of Transnational Labor Migration on Learning Process: A Case Study of Nepalese Children and Women Staying Behind

Anchala Chaudhary

doi:10.4236/jss.2016.411007

Abstract

Transnational migration has become an essential feature of family life in Nepal due to process of urbanization and globalization in every part of life. During this process, a network of social relationships takes place through which ideas, practices, and resources are exchanged and transformed between migrants and non-migrants. Migrants remit and support their sending households by remitting not only money but also new culture that he/she encounter in new place. This assist non migrants especially, the children and wife to demand high wages, access new opportunities such as education and better health care and reject the status quo. A wives staying behind has to be more responsible for not only to raise and educate their children but also manage their household’s chores and outside activities. In Nepal, the provision of education is embedded in the social structures and infused by cultural meanings which generally restrict women to participate more or less in formal education and move outside of home. Migration has provides ground for nurturing the women’s autonomy, self-esteem and role expansion as they started to participate in community based organizations (CBO’s), non-government organization (NGO) to learn some informal skill and knowledge such as stitching, embroidery, handicraft, and so on. Furthermore, these women are more responsible to provide better education to the children and managing the remittance. Thus, women’s staying behind has learned to manage not only economic and emotional limitations but also to organize and create new identities, alliances, space of self and communal empowerment.

Highlights

Migration has become an integral feature of family life in many parts of the world due to urbanization and globalization and is projected to accelerate in the near future [1]
Migration has provides ground for nurturing the women’s autonomy, self-esteem and role expansion as they started to participate in community based organizations (CBO’s), non-government organization (NGO) to learn some informal skill and knowledge such as stitching, embroidery, handicraft, and so on
The people left behind always maintain a ties of social relationship with the migrants through the different means of communication which obliges migrants not to remit only money and new culture that he/she encounter in new place

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Introduction

Migration has become an integral feature of family life in many parts of the world due to urbanization and globalization and is projected to accelerate in the near future [1]. There are many reasons behind the migrant’s movement the major reasons lies in livelihood security for their families, lack of adequate domestic job opportunities and in search of better living conditions in another place When these migrants leave their home in search of better opportunities he/she belong to two or more societies at the same time [3] as they might devoted towards their homeland due root of their origin and incorporated in another countries that receive them where they started to live and work. The new way of life experienced abroad introduces both economic and social remittance such as new ideas and practices to sending countries The reasons behind this transfer are the migrant’s children and wife and for which migrants always remit and visit the home [4]

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