THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION ON MIGRANTS’ FAMILIES LEFT BEHIND IN THE RURAL AREA OF PAKISTAN

This study was designed to investigate the problems of the migrant families left-behind in the rural areas of Pakistan. It was observed in this study that women initially felt loneliness and burdened as they assumed the new duties and responsibilities in the absence of their husbands, particularly concerning the male children. Consequently, they faced psychological strains when their husband left them at origin. It was further explored that children felt loneless and lack of guideless in the absence of their father. The study was carried out in district Faisalabad. It included three hundred respondents, who were taken from eight villages, two villages from each Tehsil, selected by simple random sampling technique. Chi-square test and Probit estimation technique were used for empirical analysis. Probit Analysis proved that a large majority of magrants’children could not get the education as their parents expected.