Sex-wise Spatial Analysis of in-Migrants in North-Western Region of India

Abstract

Migration studies have been a concern as a very important issue among the contemporary scholars of population geographic research. As a third major reason for population change it plays an essential role in the growth of an area and redistribution of the population. Distribution of the population in all the continents and countries is the consequence of long time Migration of people from the old world to the newly discovered countries .from the time immemorial, people tend to migrate from the stage of food gathering and pastoralism to the present stage of highly specialized nature of migration with varying of distribution. In this paper, an attempt has been made to study the in-migration in north western India to other Regions (states and Union Territories of India). The analysis is based on the 2001 & 2011 D-2 migration tables of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Chandigarh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi, states, and Union Territories released by the census of India. The study informs that in-migrants in north western India have been enumerated in all states and Union Territories of India. A large number of in-migrants have come from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Madhya Pradesh not only in 2001but also in 2011.