• Sunil Vyankatesh Samag

Migration in rural western India is examined here in connection to social transformation that takes place at home for migrants. Research into seasonal migration has focused on remittance flows and the net loss and gain of labour between regions. Many studies have examined how marginalised individuals use their own experiences, ideas, and sensitivities in the process of travelling between their home villages and destinations to challenge the historic, uneven power relations that have been there for centuries. This study is an attempt to fill that need. Using Gramscian conceptions of counter-hegemony, we argue that the seasonal labour movement in rural Maharashtra has rippled across the social life of the villages, affecting farmers, landless labourers, and the relations of production in a way that is difficult to quantify. New farmer and labourer subjectivities, challenges to the common sense of social behaviour, and migrant tactics of resistance are seen in the "war of position" waged against landowner farmers by migrant workers. There has been an emphasis on the integration of internally displaced persons in their destination countries, but the daily political battles of internal, circular migrants remain largely unexplored in their home communities. This article urges policymakers to look at migration as a sociological phenomenon in order to better understand how communities change as a result of migration.

"A CRITICAL STUDY ON SEASONAL MIGRATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN RURAL INDIA'S WESTERN STATES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 1, page no.1867-1873, January-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701677.pdf

"A CRITICAL STUDY ON SEASONAL MIGRATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN RURAL INDIA'S WESTERN STATES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 1, page no. pp1867-1873, January-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701677.pdf