Author: Seema Luitel
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.GD-06-15
Year: 2006
Academic Program: Gender and Development Studies (GDS)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2006
Examination Committee: Bernadette P. Resurreccion (Chairperson); Barbara Earth, Mokbul Morshed Ahmad (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Migration is a very common phenomenon in today’s world, and Nepal is not an exception. With lack of access to services, significant proportion of the rural population in Nepal is constantly moving to the urban areas, and Kathmandu has always been the most preferred destination for them. To adjust into a new locality is always a challenge for the migrants. This study has made an effort to explore and analyze how men and women migrants exercise their social capital with their place of origin and in the new destination to build and maintain their social networks. The study was conducted in Tinthana VDC which is outskirts of Kathmandu in Nepal. The primary data were collected using various tools like, key informants Interview, focus group discussion, survey questionnaire and semi structure questionnaire with the tenant migrants. The purposive sampling has been used to trace out the migrant tenants who were living in one house for not less than a year. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods have been used for data analysis. The study has explored and explained how the migrants, as men with son’s role and women with the role of daughter in-law build and maintain their social capital with their parents, in-laws and relatives at the place of origin. The study shows that the sense of marginal 1zation is prevalent among the migrant tenants. The discrimination felt by the migrant tenants might be intentional or unintentional exercised by the old settlers and the house owners, however, that prevails in that VDC. Water scarcity has been found as main discriminatory factor. The old settlers have strong feeling of belongingness in that particular place, thus claiming to have more authority to use basic necessities like water. It is found that most of the women migrants are exercising their social capital with house owners and old settlers to ease their daily struggle to get water. Similarly, men and women migrants are found to have maintained their social networks to their place of origin as well. Women migrants a
Scholarship Donor(s): NORAD
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement of the degree of Master of Science, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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