Climate migration’s growing threat to marginalised people in Tamil Nadu, India
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Climate migration’s growing threat to marginalised people in Tamil Nadu, India
This paper discusses how climatic factors are deepening the vulnerabilities
of small farmers and agricultural workers, pushing men’s migration to the
non-farm sector. These changes exacerbate pre- existing gender divides and
social inequality, thereby intensifying the vulnerability of those left
behind: mainly women, landless people and the socially marginalised (Dalit)
community. Appropriate strategies need to be identified, to assess
intersectional micro-level NELD. Regional level need-based policies should
also be developed and effectively implemented, to prevent salinity-induced
land degradation. This means vulnerability could be minimised, with changes
in the pattern of men’s migration. In addition, women’s collective power
could be harnessed by empowering them to act independently via formal credit
and adequate backward and forward linkages to ensure their sustainable
livelihood.
