Migrant Workers in Leh- Ladakh: Politics and Process

Considered crucial to the development of any ecologically and culturally embedded community is the moving in of outside populations. In the context of communities in Leh - Ladakh, human progression coupled with external influence has brought tremendous change to the traditional socio - economic system and physical habitat. This has furthered dynamic transformation in lifestyle, coterminous with rapid and constant redefinition of the community s fundamental needs and wants. In such a dynamic reality, gaps emerge within the existing skill set of the community as the transition demands new skill and capacity - that which the community does not yet possess. In the case of Leh - Ladakh, migrants who have the required expertise to carry forth the task at hand, fill this lacuna. Over a period of time, these migrants have become an important component in the lives of the local community, maintaining an essential systemic equilibrium. This book is the product of a two hundred sample size empirical study, that engages with politics and processes of migration and the impact migrants have had on the Ladakhi community.

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bodhi.s.r teaches in the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. His expertise includes Tribal Studies and Critical Indigenous Social Work. He has engaged extensively on the said subjects and pioneered the teaching of Dalit and Tribal Social Work in India.