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STORY: INDIA / INTERNAL MIGRANTS
TRT: 3.20
SOURCE: UNDP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / HINDI / NATS
DATELINE: RECENT, CALCUTTA, INDIA / NEW YORK CITY
RECENT, CALCUTTA, INDIA
1. Wide shot, train with passengers
2. Various shots, traffic and taxis
3. Various shots, market scenes
4. Wide shot, train tracks with people
5. Various shots, traffic and pedestrians
6. Med shot, man selling shoes in his market stand
7. Various shots, Beren Shaw, internal migrant/food stall owner selling from food stall
8. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Beren Shaw, Internal Migrant/Food Stall Owner:
“We’re doing good here. We can earn money.”
9. Various shots, Beren preparing food
10. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Beren Shaw, Internal Migrant/Food Stall Owner:
“We don’t have any kind of pain. If we had all the facilities in Bihar, we wouldn’t have come to Bengal. Here I can make money, do business. Here we can run our livelihood.”
11. Various shots, Beren tending to food stall
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP:
“Internal migrants are better off than they would have been had they stayed where they were in part because they’re able to get better jobs. In the new places, they’re able to have better access to services, mirroring the differences often between urban and rural areas. Of course, there are important exceptions in the cases of people who are internally displaced, for example moving under duress. But in general, they’re better off.”
RECENT, CALCUTTA, INDIA
13. Various shots, streets
14. Various shots, tenements
15. Various shots, Beren Shaw and family at home
16. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Beren Shaw, Internal Migrant/Food Stall Owner:
“I think that in the future my son will be educated, and we are very happy about that, and we can have a better standard of living.”
17. Wide shot, Beren watching his son read
18. Close up, Beren’s son doing school work.
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP:
“We find that there are four times as many internal migrants, people moving within the borders of their own country, in the world relative to international migrants.”
RECENT, CALCUTTA, INDIA
20. Med shot, Indian flags hanging in front of a clock tower
21. Various shots, street scene, market place
Migrants typically boost economic output and give more than they take, according to the 2009 Human Development Report to be launched on Monday (5 October).
The report “Overcoming Barriers: Human mobility and development”, casts new light on some common misconceptions about migration. Most migrants to not cross national borders but instead move within their own country, searching for new and better opportunities for themselves and their families. In fact, seven out of ten migrants move within the borders of their own country.
In India, the number of people who move within the country is more than twice the number of people who emigrate to other countries.
SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Beren Shaw, Internal Migrant/Food Stall Owner:
“We’re doing good here. We can earn money.”
Beren Shaw is a food stall owner in Calcutta who moved his family to Bihar to seek a new life.
SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Beren Shaw, Internal Migrant/Food Stall Owner:
“We don’t have any kind of pain. If we had all the facilities in Bihar, we wouldn’t have come to Bengal. Here I can make money, do business. Here we can run our livelihood.”
The Report’s detailed investigations show that immigration usually increases employment in host communities, does not crowd out locals from the job market and improves rates of investment in new businesses and initiatives.
At the same time, internal migrants stand to gain increased wages and better access to crucial services like health care and education.
SOUNDBITE (English) Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP:
“Internal migrants are better off than they would have been had they stayed where they were in part because they’re able to get better jobs. In the new places, they’re able to have better access to services, mirroring the differences often between urban and rural areas. Of course, there are important exceptions in the cases of people who are internally displaced, for example moving under duress. But in general, they’re better off.”
While Beren Shaw has had his fair share of challenges in building a new life for himself and his family, he believes his son now has opportunities he never would have had back in Bihar.
SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Beren Shaw, Internal Migrant/Food Stall Owner:
“I think that in the future my son will be educated, and we are very happy about that, and we can have a better standard of living.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP:
“We find that there are four times as many internal migrants, people moving within the borders of their own country, in the world relative to international migrants.”
As long as differences exist between rural and urban areas, people will continue moving from one part of their country to another in order to take advantage of better schools and social services, higher income opportunities, cultural amenities, new modes of living, technological innovations and links to the world.
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