1st Edition
Migration of Labour in India The squatter settlements of Delhi
By Himmat Ratnoo
Copyright 2017
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
54 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
54 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Migration – both within and between countries – is increasingly one of the world's most important policy issues. The faster the Indian economy grows, the larger will be the geographical redistribution of the workforce from localities of low to those of high employment growth. Thus, territorial mobility is fundamental both to realizing the full economic potential of India's people and to allowing... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Method in the sample survey 3. Socio-economic status of migrants before migration 4. Channels of information, job expectation and the process of migration 5. Retrospective on the process of migration - two decades later 6. Discovering and characterising groups of migrants 7. Who stays and who returns 8. Conclusion
Biography
Himmat Singh Ratnoo is Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Maharshi Dayanand University, India. His research interests include migration and urbanization.
