While Kerala has experienced significant socio-economic changes through agrarian reforms, collective bargaining, growth of infrastructure and social capital, it is migration that stands out as a major change-agent in recent decades. But as a recent workshop highlighted, while the issue of migration, its sociological and economic aspects, has received some scholarly attention, the feasibility of utilising foreign remittances for the development of the state's internal economy remains to be debated.
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