Migration is indeed, an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and better future. The term migration means the movement of people from one place to other within nations and internationally across borders looking for employment, better conditions of living, better educational facilities, shelter etc. to live a better life. Literally speaking, migration is the process of shifting of people or an individual or group of individuals from one cultural domain to another which may be permanent or temporary. Migration has been a global phenomenon which has eventually generated a wide variety of movements and situations involving people of all backgrounds and walks of life. Migration can however, be classified as intra-national migration and international ones based on political limits and the boundaries crossed such as districts, countries, state borders and international boundaries.

Assam is the meeting place of diverse ethnic groups, races of people, cultures, intermixture of various racial stocks such as Mongoloid, Indo-Burmese, Indo-Aryan, a large number of tribes like Bodo, Kachari, Karbi, Miri, Mishmi, Rabha, Moran, Muttack and many others. So, the Assam Tea Company had at first tried to employ the local tribal people like the Kacharis, the Mataks, the Kukis, the Nagas, the Apatanis etc. They were found reluctant and indolent to work such job in tea plantation because they had enormous asset in terms of land to used as sources of living specially Kacharis an indigenous tribe were unwilling because of their antagonism with the British rulers who had implemented a variety of repressive laws upon them. The British developed the tea industry in Assam. They imported labour from Bihar and other provinces to work in the tea gardens. The Assamese people living mostly in Upper Assam and cultivating one crop per year, were not interested in working as labour in the tea gardens Therefore, the British encouraged Bengali Muslim peasants from present Bangladesh to move into Lower Assam for putting virgin land under cultivation. This set in motion a movement pattern which despite changed conditions, has been continuing to this day. in this article an attempt will be made up to discuss about the migration of tea garden labourers into Assam and Political status of women TGWs of Rajmai, Sepon, Khongea and Maskora tea estates, Sivasagar, Assam.