HPAS/Allied Mains 2022 Answer Writing Challenge Day 265: Model Answer

Question: Describe the impact of migration on India’s cultural heritage. (4 marks/60 words)

Answer:

Migration can be defined as the process of going from one country, region or place of residence to settle in another.

• Migration has contributed to the richness in diversity of cultures, ethnicities and races in developed countries. Individuals who migrate experience multiple stresses that can impact their mental well being, including the loss of cultural norms, religious customs, and social support systems, adjustment to a new culture and changes in identity and concept of self.
• Migrants of all skill levels considerably contribute to societies. They spawn creativity, nourish the human spirit and spur economic growth. They bring diversity, provide innovation and bring about economic development and growth in the host societies.
• The primary motivation for migration is economic and at the heart of migration, management is imperative to maximize the development impact of international migration for all.
• India exemplifies the strengths of a large, tolerant, secular, live democracy with a pluralistic society in which people of different faiths, languages, ethnicity and political persuasions co-exist and thrive.
• Indeed, this milieu is the ‘sine qua non’ of any society that can create conditions for positive migratory movements and labour mobility for the benefit of all. This places India in a position to help contribute to the international community’s efforts to develop an appropriate world migration strategy.