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Handbook of Internal Migration in India is an inter-disciplinary, multi-faceted and thought-provoking book on internal migrants and their dynamics among the states in India. The first of its kind, this handbook provides novel information on processes, trends, determinants, differentials and dynamics of internal migration and its inter-linkages with individuals, families, economy and society. Most of the chapters have been written by scholars of repute who have spent their lifetime working on migration and the factors associated with it. This handbook is an attempt to address the lacunae in internal migration studies using both big data, such as Indian censuses, National Sample Surveys, India Human Development Surveys and Kerala Migration Surveys, and micro-level data collected by enthusiastic researchers in most parts of India to explore the unknown facets of internal migration. This book employs interdisciplinary and mixed methods to examine issues such as climate change, gender, urbanization, caste/tribe, religion, politics and emergence of migration policies. It addresses the crucial question as to why temporary and short-term migration continues to be an important livelihood strategy for millions of migrants thereby having an everlasting impact on the sociopolitical and economic structure of the country.
Migration and Urbanization
Migration and Urbanization
Introduction
Indian economy is in a transition phase. India has moved up in the income ladder and has become a lower-middle-income country since 2007–2008 (World Bank, 2015). Due to a sustained growth rate of gross domestic product (GDP) (about 7% per annum) since 2002– 2003, the incidence of poverty has reduced substantially (Chauhan, Mohanty, Subramanian, Parida & Padhi, 2014). More importantly, a structural transformation is taking place with falling share of employment in agriculture and a corresponding rise of employment in the non-farm sectors (Mehrotra & Parida, 2017). With growing mechanization in agriculture (Himanshu, 2011; Mehrotra, Parida, Sinha & Gandhi, 2014), for the first time in Indian economic ...
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