Citation:

Janhavi .N, Dr. Ahmaumdi Beg. "(Not) Hiring Hijras: A Qualitative Study of the Right to Work Being Violated for Hijras" International Research Journal of Economics and Management Studies, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 65-70, 2024.

Abstract:

The population of transgender people in India was estimated by the 2011 census at 4,90,000 (Nagarajan 2014). The Hijras are a highly visible subsection of transgender people. Talwar (1999), in his book, noted what is now common knowledge about them: ‘...hijras are still regarded as performers ... [they] earn their living through begging... Prostitution is fairly widespread within the community.’ The research question was structured as “Is the continuance of the traditional occupations of Hijras a neglect of their human rights? If so, what causes this?” qualitative techniques were adopted to understand about human rights and their violations. As the population of Hijras specifically is undetermined, non-probability sampling techniques were used, and semi-structured interviews were conducted. These generated qualitative data, which, along with the literature reviewed, were subjected to content and narrative analysis. This paper explores the drawbacks of the methodology and recommendations to overcome them. The major finding of this study was that two factors were largely responsible for Hijras continuing with traditional occupations: social exclusion and government inaction. Consequently, the right to work was being violated by the Hijras.

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Keywords:

Human Rights, Hijras, Right To Work, Social Exclusion, Content Analysis, Narrative Analysis.