List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements to the First Edition
Acknowledgements to the Second Edition
1 Introduction: Internal Migration in Contemporary India—An Overview of Issues and Concerns
DEEPAK K. MISHRA
2 Nature of Migration and Its Contribution to India's Urbanization
R.B. BHAGAT
3 Women's Mobility and Migration: An Exploratory Study of Muslim Women Migrants in Jamia Nagar, Delhi
MEENAKSHI THAPAN, ANSHU SINGH AND NIDHITHA SREEKUMAR
4 Migration and Marginalization: A Study of Northeast Migrants in Delhi
BABU P. REMESH
5 Labour Migration in the Northeast
S. IRUDAYA RAJAN AND RIKIL CHYRMANG
6 Educational Migration among Ladakhi Youth
ELIZABETH WILLIAMS-OERBERG
7 Migration in Agrarian Classes: A Study Based on Nine Villages in Andhra Pradesh
R. VIJAY
8 Migration from Contemporary Bihar
AMRITA DATTA
9 Migration and Punjab: Some Perceptions
SURJIT SINGH
10 Seasonal Migration from Odisha: A View from the Field
DEEPAK K. MISHRA
11 Internal Labour Migration in India: Emerging Needs of Comprehensive National Migration Policy
ANJALI BORHADE
12 Migrant Labour in Contemporary India: The Pandemic and After
DEEPAK K MISHRA
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Biography
Deepak K Mishra is a Professor of Economics at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research interests are in the political economy of agrarian change, rural livelihoods and agrarian institutions, labour migration, gender, and human development. He has co-authored The Unfolding Crisis in Assam’s Tea Plantations: Employment and Occupational Mobility (2012). He has co-edited Rethinking Economic Development in Northeast India: The Emerging Dynamics (2017), Land and Livelihoods in Neoliberal India (2020) and Global Poverty: Rethinking Causality (2023).
