Internal Migration In India Research Articles

PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE ON INTERNAL MIGRATION, REMITTANCES, AND TEEN SCHOOLING IN INDIA

We examine correlations between the receipt of remittances from internal migrants and human capital investment in rural areas of India. We employ a propensity score matching approach to account for the selectivity of households into receiving remittances. We find a positive correlation between remittances received from internal migrants and the schooling attendance of teens. The magnitude of the correlation is greater when focusing on low-caste households, and male schooling attendance in particular becomes more positive and statistically significant. Our findings provide a basis for establishing future research in the areas of migration and social protection in India. (JEL O15, J24, R23)

Assessing the Measurement of Internal Migration in India

The lack of data presents a fundamental challenge in measuring internal or international migration. Focusing on the case of India, this research note tackles the following aspects in the measurement of internal migration in India: a survey of migration-related questions included in various censuses, an assessment of the different criteria to determine migration status, and a comparison of migration data derived from census data and the National Sample Survey. Due to recent developments, there is a need to review these approaches to ensure that they capture new realities.

Spatial disorganisation and internal migration in India: some strategies for restructuring the space economy and development

The study discusses how the spatial disorganization of the Indian economy has been inducing massive dislocation of marginalized peasants and labourers from tottering rural areas to exporting centres and primary cities and indicates the shape of the things to come in the year 2001 if the present trends continue. Some of the probable strategies suggested for restructuring the space and for economic development include: reorientation of the countrys spatial-economic structure and spatial linkages to her internal domestic markets; land reforms; cooperative farming; rural development; massive employment generation; raising the per capita productivity by enhancing economic value of products; rural industrialization; urban decentralization; migration- restriction and a more equitable distribution of income; wealth and levels of consumption among various strata of the society. (authors)

Peasants on the Move: A Study of Internal Migration in India

Peasants are popularly characterized as relatively passive pawns of external forces. In the burgeoning studies literature however the image is now emerging of peasants who do enjoy a degree of decision-making power over their own lives but their options are still limited because they comprise a distinctly subordinate component in the larger agrarian system. This perspective has led not only to a much greater emphasis on the real locus of control in an agrarian society but also to reconsiderations of peasant behavior as is suggested by Liptons notion of the optimizing peasant. This paper stresses the optimizing character of peasants on the move in the Saran district in the northeastern Indian province of Bihar in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In examining this historical phenomenon of internal and especially seasonal migration the focus here is on the adaptations migrating peasants made in their own lives in their communities of origin and in their communities of destination. (excerpt)

Regional Aspects of Population Growth in India, 1951­61

Pacific ViewpointVolume 3, Issue 2 p. 87-99 ArticleFree Access Regional Aspects of Population Growth in India, 1951­61 G. S. Gosal, G. S. Gosal G. S. Gosal is Reader in Geography at the Punjab University, Chandigarh, IndiaSearch for more papers by this author G. S. Gosal, G. S. Gosal G. S. Gosal is Reader in Geography at the Punjab University, Chandigarh, IndiaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 September 1962 https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.32008Citations: 2AboutSectionsPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat References 1 N. S. Agarwala (Editor), 1960, India’s Population: Some Problems in Perspective Planning, New York. 2Gosal, G. S., 1961, “ Internal-Migration in India: A Regional Analysis”, Indian Geographical Journal, September 1961, Madras, pp. 119- 21. 3Trewartha, G. T. and Gosal, G., 1957, “ The Regionalism of Population Change in India”, Cold Spring Harbour Symposia on Quantitative Biology, XXII, 1957, U.S.A. Citing Literature Volume3, Issue2September 1962Pages 87-99 ReferencesRelatedInformation