Impact of Seasonal Labor Migration on Livelihood of Rural People

Abstract

Seasonal labor migration for livelihood is one of the emerging issues in research in Nepal. Nepal has the long history of seasonal/circulatory movement of people for their livelihood, but it has been found very few numbers of literatures available in research. This paper focused on assessing the impact of seasonal labor migrations on five capitals of the livelihood. The volume of migration for labor work is rising over the year. Huge amounts of cash and kind remittances are entering regularly in the country that raised the national GDP and the awareness about quality of life. Improving quality of life is the reflection of changing their occupation at destination for better income. In the reverse, it created the shortage of labor force in agriculture and national industries, aged parents and children are staying at village/home, occurred unsafe migration occurred. In this sense, this study is highly concentrated on the study of the positive impact of seasonal labor migration on the livelihood of Nepalese people/Households.