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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.
Challenges to Stakeholders
Challenges to Stakeholders
Introduction
Migration is the process of leaving one's own home and moving towards a new area in search of work or livelihood (Ramakrishnan & Arora, 2015). Many academic studies focus on situations in which the place where people come from (source area or place of origin) and the place where people move to (place of destination) are in different nations, such as from India to Gulf countries—international migration. Yet internal migrants1—people who migrate within national boundaries—are more significant in number compared with international migrants. However, internal migrants are often ignored by researchers and international organizations (Du Toit, 1990). The Human Development Report (UNDP, 2007, p. 2) reveals that the number ...
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