Women Migrating in India: Evidence from Odisha: Final Report.

Abstract

This study is the outcome of an in depth research engagement with 20 villages in two blocks of one district of Odisha. Its objective was to develop a more detailed evidence base on factors determining women’s labour migration, the social profile of women migrant workers, recruitment practices and modes of intermediation, the conditions of work to which women were migrating, the nature of destinations and the forms of migrant women’s work, their experiences and vulnerabilities, and the precepts and practice of policy frameworks addressing gender, migration, and forced labour.