Social Inclusion of Migrant Women Plantation Workers in Karnataka

India constitutes a 30 percent of the total population (309 million) internal migrants, As per NSSO report (2007-08) prominent reason for internal migration is for employment. Migrants face defiance of basic entitlements including access to subsidized food, housing, drinking water, sanitation and public health facilities, education, banking services and often work in poor conditions devoid of social security and legal protection. Migration enhances the chances of women to enjoy empowerment effects, with increased communication in the general public, including their involvement as workers and decision makers of households. Cultivation of Coffee dominated in the hill tracts of South India, in that Karnataka dominant 79.3 percentage of total coffee production in India and it is the only industry requires high density of manual work; The majority of working people in the plantation were migrated from Tamilnadu, Kerala and other part of India; they were brought by Kanganis for low wage and to fill the labour scarcity at hill station during 19th and 20th century colonial period, among them more than half of working labours were women. The migrated workers especially women were excluded in various activities from local, and even they paid less compared to the male. This study aimed to understand the socio-economic conditions of the Social Inclusion of long-term and short term migrant plantation women workers. For this Study researcher has adopted descriptive research design with purposive sampling technique to identify the samples. Udai Preek’s socio-economic scale and self prepared social inclusion measurement question with likert scaling was used to collect data. The collected data was computed through SPSS 19.0 by applying chi-squre, correlation tests and simple percentile. Results shown that, the majority of migrated women were migrated after marriage and seasonal women migrant worker facing linguistic challenges with local interaction.