Why do Keralites migrate or emigrate?

 Why do Keralites migrate or emigrate? What makes them do that? Why don't they return?

Keralites had been migrating from the first quarter of the 20th century. They still do that.

They do that in search of greener pastures. They do that for employment. They do that for higher education. They do that because of the abject poverty at home. They do that because their children won't come back. Options were limited or non existent. Development is stiil a mirage here.

They don't return because they feel what they have abroad or outside the state within India is not simply available here.

This is a wrong perception. With  time moving forward and surviving on an inward remittance economy and  with scanty  industrial development and an apology of development of infrastructure Kerala has definitely progressed. 

People who have migrated away from  Kerala unfortunately think  Kerala is still the Kerala they had left eons ago.

I did at one point think of migration. I did stay out of Kerala for three years - for studies and employment. I have travelled to destinatons in India and on a very limited scale destinations abroad. I came back because I liked everything here most.

I find Kerala is the best place to settle down for a Keralite. We can move around speaking our own language. We are aliens everywhere else. We are unwelcome  prospectors of riches to the natives wherever we settle down abroad. We are kala madrasis to the north Indians. We are malayalathans to the Tamils. We are gudu gudu language speaking people to kannadigas and telugus. Even if we speak English we are belittled for our mallu accent in India and found fault with for our  heavily accented English where people converse freely in English.

We antagonise the people  of the land wherever we stay outside Kerala through confining  ourselves to closed societies  excluding them deliberately and purposefully. We identify with ourselves alone

I have a firm conviction, this is where I belong to despite the ignominal insufficiencies prevalent here