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Connecting education, health and livelihoods...

          A migrated community is always an outsider in a foreign setting. Migration occurs for various reasons. Sometimes it is forced and sometimes people choose to migrate if better opportunities are available somewhere else compared to their "home".  But the notion of ‘choice’ is debatable in this scenario as the options available to them are not equally appealing ones and that’s why they prefer to migrate. Trafficking is a major source of migration and unlike the popular understanding, it’s not just women who are trafficked but men and children are also trafficked on a large scale. Migration is a widely discussed issue these days because of the migration from politically unrest countries in the Middle East to Western European countries. But media neglects the issues in South East Asian countries like Bangladesh and Myanmar for political reasons. Kerala model of development and the heavy migration of its people to Gulf countries is famous across the world. State’s HDI