TITLE:
Decrease of Fertility without Increase in Contraceptive Use: Interrelationship between Migration and Fertility Behavior in Himali Gaunpalika in Nepal
AUTHORS:
Bishnu Prasad Dahal
KEYWORDS:
Migration, Fertility, Contraceptives, Male Migration
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.8 No.5,
May
13,
2020
ABSTRACT: Migration from Nepal to other countries over the last 200 years includes
pilgrims, devotees, political refugees, and soldiers. Throughout the twentieth
and 20 years of the twenty-first century, Nepal has increased its role as a
major labour-exporting country and mostly economy depends on remittance. This
research paper explores the new trends of fertility and tendencies of
contraceptive are in relation to migration especially male, ecology and
population dynamics. Use of contraceptive is not usually determined by the use
of contraceptive in case of human in general but in some cases, fertility is a
complex whole which can be determined by
multiple factors like ecology, religion, culture, social dynamics, demographic
dynamics etc. The objective of this paper was to identify the situation of
migration trends in relation to fertility in the study area. Fertility mainly depends on male migration towards abroad and
even in India, geography, climate (cold climate), heavy work load due to
difficult geography, food habit (mainly carbohydrate sufficiency rather than
protein based) etc. are playing a key role for decreasing fertility rather than using contraceptives in
case of Himali Gaupalika of Bajura district of Nepal.