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Goa university to track Indian migration patterns
Friday December 07, 2012 07:21:21 PM,
IANS
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Panaji: Out migration
patterns of Indians in general and Goans in particular will now be
tracked and studied with the Goa University establishing a chair
for diaspora studies for the forthcoming academic year.
According to Rajeev Verma, secretary to Goa Governor B.V. Wanchoo,
a Rs.2 million grant has already been allocated and has been
accorded approval of the University Grants Commission (UGC).
Speaking to reporters here Friday, former commissioner for Goa's
Non-resident India (NRI) cell Eduadro Faleiro, said: "It would
deal with issues concerning the Indian diaspora in general and the
Goan diaspora in particular along with the study of migration in
other countries. It will explore the relationship that the
Diaspora people have with their homeland."
The former minister of state for external affairs said that this
was the first such chair in the country which had been
specifically set up to study migration and that it would throw
light on consistent migration of Goans to other parts of the
country as well as the world.
"The study of migration is one of the most fascinating areas of
academic research and it is particularly relevant to Goa since
over the centuries a significant number of our people have
migrated to other parts of India and abroad for various reasons,"
said Faleiro, who had been pursuing the matter of the chair with
the union human resource development (HRD) ministry.
"It will also undertake research studies pertaining to migration
of Goans to the neighbouring areas of north Karnataka and south
Maharashtra in the 16th and 17th century due to religious,
cultural and economic reasons," he added.
In the recent past, Goa has seen out-migration to Britain, Africa
and especially to the Gulf countries and with a huge non resident
population, was the second state in India after Kerala, to conduct
a scientific study on migration.
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