A recent study has revealed the emergence of a new migration corridor between Surada block of Ganjam district in Odisha and Kerala marking a significant shift from the decades-old corridor between Ganjam and Surat in Gujarat.
Kerala is being increasingly preferred by the marginalised Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Christian communities in Surada thanks largely to the absence of caste discrimination. The paper examining the interstate migration and the influence of caste in the decision to migrate was published in the Odisha Economic Journal.
The study was co-authored by Madhusudan Nag, Doctoral Scholar, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram; Benoy Peter, Centre for Migration and Inclusive Development, Perumbavoor; and Divya Varma, Aajeevika Bureau, Udaipur.
