Migrant Women in T.N.: The Hidden Struggles of Survival

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• Women migrants in Tamil Nadu face extreme physical and mental distress, exacerbated by poor working and living conditions. These include lifting heavy loads, long commutes, delayed wages, lack of access to clean water or healthcare, and sexual harassment.
• A February 2025 survey found that 47.9% of unskilled inter-State migrant workers exhibited symptoms of anxiety and depression; women reported higher rates owing to acculturative stress and discrimination.
• Migrants often lack state IDs required for accessing health schemes such as the CMCHIS in Tamil Nadu but can use Union government PM-JAY cards at private empanelled hospitals.
• Key issues include language barriers, high surveillance within workplaces or housing accommodations near factories, mobility restrictions, exploitation by agents in domestic work conditions, isolation due to limited communication tools like phones, verbal abuse at factories with stringent productivity demands, alcoholism within families contributing to domestic violence against women workers.
• Mental health symptoms often manifest as physical ailments (joint pain or fatigue),but many women are unable to seek treatment due to time constraints or costs; this increases risks like attrition rates in industries such as garment work after mental concerns worsen unaddressed overtime frameworks within both accommodated + multiply stressed individuals persists gaining regional absentee wage pile-ups community indirectly when risks outflow prevent departments coordination missing verification/ration-> Insurance ID_titles=’How ensures stages?family multiple ration-linked registrations recruitment entirely compactly districts’.

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