Left Behind

The Impact on Children and Families of Mothers Migrating for Work Abroad

Thursday, October 12, 2006


"Women play a major role in the national economy, such as tea pluckers, migrant women, and garment factory workers. They have to think about the welfare of the families, especially their children, when the migrate. Children do not understand everything. It's the duty of the parents to take care of their children. Mothers play a prominent role in a Sri Lankan household. And if and when anything goes wrong in the family mothers are blamed first. The women who go abroad to earn, have to make proper arrangements for their children" says Pathma Somakanthan, writer