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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Migration and tribal communities.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Tribal Communities in India

Tribes are popularly imagined as immobile forest dwellers, yet Adivasis have been among India's most migrated populations for almost two centuries. The distinguishing feature is not movement but its compulsion: tribal migration has typically been recruited, indebted or displaced rather than chosen, and it therefore transfers labour outward while leaving rights behind.

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  • The colonial stream: recruitment and indenture
  • The contemporary stream: circular and distress migration
  • Gender, trafficking and what migration costs
  • Conclusion

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