Name: Preeti Bhardwaj
Country: India

Year: 2017
Volume: Volume-2, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 36-46

The concept of marginality was first introduced by Robert Park (1928). Marginalisation is a symbol that refers to process by which individuals or groups are kept at or pushed beyond the edges of society. The term outsiders may be used to refer to those individuals or groups who are marginalised . The Encyclopaedia of Public Health defines marginalisation as, “to be marginalised is to be placed in the margins and thus excluded from the privilege and power found at the centre”, The concept of marginality is generally used to analyse socioeconomic, political and cultural spheres, where disadvantaged people struggle to gain access to resources and full participation in social life. In other words, marginalised people might be socially, economically, politically and legally ignored, excluded or neglected and therefore vulnerable. A great majority of people in the developing nations are under the line of poverty. They are deprived of adequate access in the basic needs of life such as health, education, housing, food, security, employment, justice and equity. The issues of sustainable livelihood, social and political participation of the vulnerable groups exists as the major problem in these developing nations, particularly in India. Governments have failed to guarantee people’s rights in the implementation level. People who belong to the vulnerable groups are unable to acquire and use their rights.