A STUDY ON INTERNAL MIGRATION IN INDIA

Abstract

Migration is the movement of people from one place to another with the intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily in a new location. This type of movement could be from one country to another or internal migration like among the states of a country, such as from rural-rural, rural-urban, urban-urban or urban –rural. Individuals may migrate as a person, in family units or in large groups. If A person is forced to move from his home to another place due to natural disaster or civil disturbance may be described as a refugee. Migrants continually face difficulties in becoming a full part of the economic, cultural, social and political lives of society. This paper is an attempt to understand the causes and nature of migration and also gender wise migration patterns in India and issues underlying it. Due to urbanization changes occur in socio-economic conditions, migrants are attracted to urban areas in recent times. Inter-state migration among males to urban area shows precedence growth reflecting migration of people from lower socio-economic class while a large percentage of females migrate mostly due to marriage. The reason for such divergent pattern of migration within a period of 10 years really needs to be investigated. Index Terms Labour, urbanization, migration, marriage