An analysis of migration in India and its effect on health

Abstract

Effects of globalization influencing people to migrate one place to another, seeking more opportunities for their livelihood. There are many reasons like poverty, unemployment, lack of civic amenities etc, for people choose to migrate one place to another in particularly, internal migration figures tend to be dominated by youngsters. As per the data in 2001 census, 309 million persons were migrants based on their last residence, which constitute about 30 percent of the total population of the country. This figure indicates an increase of migration around 37 percent from the census 1991 which recorded 226 million migrants. Moreover, due to climate and environmental changes migrants tend to feel sick, and for those who migrates one region to another have faced adjustment problems. As migration in increase ratio in present scenario the same way health issues of the migrants also increasing. The present paper reviews the relationship between migration and health in India and this paper is analytical in nature and it is entirely based on secondary sources of data for analysis of migration in India and its effect on health, sex wise distribution, and Regional patterns of Migration in India. Which are collected from various sources such as NSSO, Census of India and Government Reports for a period of 30 years from 1971 to 2001. Simple tabulation and percentage method were used for analysis.