Couselling Migrant Families in Southern India

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to highlight the effectiveness of counselling services in the area of families affected by economic handicaps by migrants. Many of the people migrated from Srikakulam and its vicinities to the ‘el dorado”, Bhimavarm of West Godavari District in search of livelihood. Having come here they are trying to get adjusted. Many of them took to rickshaw driving. Some of them are doing well and others are just managing. They have to be provided counselling on how to enhance their earnings, while doing so they have to support their meagre earnings and to see that the family runs with enough resource. In this paper certain counselling services, like existential counselling and co-counselling are suggested to enable the migrated to overcome their difficulties and come to grips with the difficulties that they face.