Socio-economic conditions of women in absence of husband due to international mobility
International Journal of Development Research
Socio-economic conditions of women in absence of husband due to international mobility
Received 11th August 2017; Received in revised form 24th September, 2017; Accepted 19th October, 2017; Published online 30th November, 2017
Copyright © 2017, Seemab Abid and Noreen Qudoos. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The people living in one area of the world basically move towards the other part of the world for the purpose of taking temporary or permanent residence. People go to other part of the country and as well as overseas with the intention of improving their living conditions and leave the place of their origins in search of work but unfortunately it implicit adverse effect on their families who are left behind. The researcher attempts to determine and explore the impacts of husband absence due to the mobility on their family. The main aim of the study is to point out all those emotional, psychological, economical, and cultural problem by which a family especially a wife has to go through in absence of her husband. The study was unique in its approach as it considers these issues from the micro prospective. The study was based on Qualitative approach. Data was obtain from 10 in-depth interviews. The revealed that wives in absence of husband have to face many problem related adjustment in their in-laws, support and being guardian of children. More over the research suggested some measures for to improve the conditions of migrant’s wives.