Acknowledgements
Introduction: Internal Migration in Contemporary India—An Overview
of Issues and Concerns - Deepak K Mishra
Nature of Migration and Its Contribution to India’s Urbanization -
R B Bhagat
Women’s Mobility and Migration: An Exploratory Study of Muslim
Women Migrants in Jamia Nagar, Delhi - Meenakshi Thapan, Anshu
Singh and Nidhitha Sreekumar
Migration and Marginalization: A Study of North East Migrants in
Delhi - Babu P Remesh
Labour Migration in the North East - S Irudaya Rajan and Rikil
Chyrmang
Educational Migration among Ladakhi Youth - Elizabeth
Williams-Oerberg
Migration in Agrarian Classes: A Study based on Nine Villages in
Andhra Pradesh - R.Vijay
Migration from Contemporary Bihar - Amrita Datta
Migration and Punjab: Some Perceptions - Surjit Singh
Seasonal Migration from Odisha: A View from the Field - Deepak K
Mishra
Internal Labour Migration in India: Emerging Needs of Comprehensive
National Migration Policy - Anjali Borhade
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Deepak K. Mishra is currently Professor of Economics at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has worked in the areas of agrarian change, livelihood, labour and employment and economic transformation of mountain economies. He has co-authored The Unfolding Crisis in Assam’s Tea Plantations: Employment and Occupational Mobility (Routledge, 2012). He was a Commonwealth Visiting Fellow at Oxford University during 2008–09. In 2012, he was Visiting Professor at the International Centre for South Asian Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow.
This Book is compilation of dense study on internal migration in
the subcontinent. This book consists of eleven chapters which focus
on some of the pertinent issues of our times related to migration
and marginalization, women’s mobility and migration related issues
in northeast India. It tries to provide a comprehensive inquiry to
the diverse prospects of migration in contemporary India. This
volume tries to evaluate the impact of migration or the
contemporary society by linking it to individual, society and
state. Starting from the role of state to the society, it tries to
examine various aspects of migrant workers. It also critically
looks at various policies and schemes that are affecting migration
in the contemporary Indian landscape. Author discusses the issue on
the agrarian questions under globalization, uneven development
along with poverty and migration and perspectives on the informal
sector. He emphasizes that the interlinkages between the three
aspects of economy- the agrarian context, the linkages between
uneven development, poverty and migration and finally the informal
economy-are crucial for understanding contemporary issues in
migrations. His chapters suggests that the politics of identity and
cultural anxieties have resulted in conflict between host and
migrant populations. Moreover, caste, religious and racial
prejudices are very much prevalent in urban labour markets.
Migrants from Northeast India, Ladakh and women from various
regions often face violence which restricts their freedom of
mobility and employment. It also creates insecurities among them.
Finally he suggests that to protect workers’ rights and save them
from extreme exploitation, both state and civil society action is
important and crutial.
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