Sachin Savio Moraes has written quite a bit on this issue.
His thesis is here:
(Having some difficulty to download currently)
He has also written elsewhere on related topics (in Hanv Konn, ed by Alito Siqueira)
Negotiating Male Migration: The Experience of Women in Goa
and (some of which deal with the subject)
1. Moraes S.S (2017) “International Migration, Goan Diaspora and the caste Dynamics
in Assolna, Velim and Cuncolim (Goa)”, International Journal of research in Social
Sciences, vol. 7 issue 8, August 2017. ISSN: 2249-2496. Impact factor: 7.081. Peer
Reviewed Refereed Open Access International Journal.
2. Sachin Savio Moraes (2016) 'International Migration, the Left Behind Children,
Educational Attainment and Occupational Preferences in Goa', Paripex- Indian Journal of
Research, Vol-5, Issue-8, Pg- 299-301, ISSN - 2250-1991 | IF: 5.215 | IC Value: 77.65.
3. Sachin S. Moraes (2016) “'The Goan Diaspora and the left behind Women in Goa.
International Journal of Research in Social Science. March-Vol 6, Issue-8, ISSN 2249-
2496, Impact Factor 6.278, pp.51-67.
4. Sachin Savio Moraes (2015) “The Diaspora and the elderly in AVC (Goa)”, International
Research Journal for Social Science, Vol. IV, Issue 8, (2015), pp. 40 -48. ISSN: 2319-
3565.
5. Sachin Savio Moraes (2015) ‘Negotiating Male Migration the experience of women in
Goa’ in International Journal for Humanities and Social Studies. ISSN 2321-9203, volume
III Issue I.
6. Sachin S. Moraes (2014) “The Polysemic Concept Of Mother Tongue And The Hegemony
Of The State: A Need To Involve All The Stake Holders In The Decision Making Process
In Goa”, Interdisciplinary Research Journal ‘Vision’, Volume VII, No. 1, 2014 – 2015,
pp.78-93
7. Sachin S. Moraes (2014) ‘International Migration, Social Mobility and Restructuration of
Village: A Sociological Study of Cuncolim’ in an edited book titled ‘Human Migration in
South Asia Prospects and Constraints’ in September 2014, published by Smt. Neelam Batra
G.B. Books New Delhi.
8. Sachin Savio Moraes (2014) ‘Negotiating Male migration the experience of women in
Goa’ in an edited book titled ‘Goa 2011: Reviewing and Rediscovering Goa’ published by
Concept Publishers New Delhi in collaboration with Xavier’s Historical Research Centre,
Goa.
9. Sachin Savio Moraes (2012). “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle slogs till her grave”, in
Xavier’s Journal on Women Empowerment: Changing Perspectives in changing times
organized by the Abbé Faria Post Graduate Department of Psychology
Others have also written on this subject, such as:
The intimate subsidies of left-behind women of migrant households in western India
Priyanka Jain & Nivedita Jayaram
If the suggestion is that more is required, I'd agree. There can never be enough! FN