Impact of Male Migration to the Middle East on the Family: Some Evidence from Kerala

Abstract

This paper is divided into two parts. Part 1 gives a brief background of the extent and pattern of recent migration to the middle East from India as a whole and from the State of Kerala in particular. In part 2, the paper goes on to discuss the impacts of this migration, male dominated as it has been, on the family as such. The paper concludes with some general observations.