title: Economic gains and social cost of West Asian migration:  the case of Nachchaduwa.
abstract: The main objective of this article is to examine the economic and social implications of the migration of female workers from a village in Sri Lanka to Western Asia.  "The paper examines firstly, the new dependent village economy that has emerged during the past decade and its main characteristics and secondly, the nature of the new local social order that has come into being."
authors.forename: S T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Hettige
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001211:Asia, Western; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012922:Social Change; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013188:Sri Lanka; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Asia; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; International Migration; Migrants--women; Migration; Population; Population Dynamics; Social Change; Socioeconomic Factors; Southern Asia; Sri Lanka; Western Asia