This paper analyses the long-term impact of displacement by assessing the impoverishment risks among the displaced adivasi population of Rourkela resettled in peri-urban and rural resettlement colonies. The study ascertains that even after six decades of displacement, adivasis in both resettlement colonies continue to face such risks, however, to a different degree according to where they were resettled. Joblessness has been a common risk among them, and it seems central to all other risks. Moreover, the persistence of these impoverishment risks among them is attributed to the violation of constitutional provisions and unfulfilled promises during and post-displacement period.
The study delves into the occupational precariousness among adivasis and scrutinises the issues of adivasi migrant labour which have been reflected in the Disha Foundation’s report on Tribal Livelihood Migration in India (2021). The study disseminates that while land alienation has engendered livelihood insecurity among adivasis, the politics of identity and dominant pedagogical paradigm have intensified their occupational vulnerability which eventually turned a large section of them into precarious labour. These three factors together explain the increasing migrant labour among them in different states. Unless these three major issues are addressed, the problem of the employment crisis among them may not be mitigated as these are the factors that not only affect their economic life but also the socio-cultural life which plays a major role in their preference for occupation.
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