Gender and Migration: Negotiating Rights - A Women’s Movement Perspective

This research aims to document women's migration in India amid reports from activists of great increases in labour migration from the 1990s onwards, along with new and more vulnerable forms of the process.The study used two sets of questionnaires, one for collecting household details and characteristics, and one for collecting information on individual experiences. Two categories of sites were also taken for the survey – ‘village sites' and a range of 'sector sites'.Over a period of 24 months starting from January 2009, surveys were conducted across 20 states covering 5007 individual migrants and 5558 households.Sector based surveys that covered women migrant workers were conducted in rural and urban areas of 20 states. This report presents the key findings of the surveys.