Youth migration of Kerala: An inevitable phenomenon
Whenever somebody is talking about youth migration in Kerala, the buzz words like brain drain, loss of talent etc features the spot. Most of the time we are prone to think of the negative effects of youth migration from Kerala to other European countries, Australia etc, which holds much weight. The loss the economy faces is real.... No arguments can negate the effect this has on the Kerala economy and to the nation also. But I am more tilted towards thinking about the youth migration in the larger picture of humanity itself. To begin with, the entire humanity is migratory in nature. The global population started from Ethiopia to spread across the whole world through various waves of migration. They migrated in search of food, favourable atmosphere, more grazing fields, land for agriculture, etc.Zooming this frame to Kerala, here also we can see that the malabar region was a space for the people from the central and South travancore to migrate towards. Also, the Gulf boom which bea...
