Out-migration and the Cycle of Exclusion: A Study on Construction Workers Families in Bolangir, Odisha Singh Ms. Priyanka* * PhD Research Scholar, School of Social Sciences University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli, Telangana Online published on 25 October, 2016. Abstract Odisha is regarded as the key state for supply of out-migration. According to the census survey report of 2001, migrant people constitute 30% with 307 million of the total population in India. Out of that 307 million people, 10.8 million are from Odisha. In Bolangir district of Odisha, people migrate frequently to the cities for getting better employment and also because of failure in farming, underemployment, and unemployment. As a construction laborer, they have to migrate because they don't get work in their place of origin. These people of Odisha are especially migrating to the cities of Andhra Pradesh, Maharastra, Uttar Pradesh and other places especially for brick-making and other labor works too. They work on contract basis and they have been given certain targets for each day. They are bound to achieve the target. In this process of migration, a child becomes the major sufferer as he has his whole life to live. The child begins his childhood as a laborer and further suffers by becoming a laborer because of lack of proper education and poor environment. This paper begins with a discussion on out-migration in Bolangir tracing its roots from both push and pull factor of migration. Next, it examines the condition of children and family at the place of destination as well as at the place of origin. Finally, it will discuss about how migration in Bolangir has negative impact on the education of the children and hence produce the cycle of exclusion. Based on those analysis, some remedies have been suggested to break the cycle of exclusion. Here an attempt has been made to achieve these objectives with the help of data from secondary sources, besides empirical data collected during the year 2006–08 through canvassing questionnaires on a sample of households in the Khaneichappar village of Khaprakhol district of Odisha representing the population of the poor migrants. Top Keywords Out-migration, Social Exclusion, Construction workers, Drop-out children. Top |