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ABSTRACT
Migration has become a universal phenomenon in modern times. Due to the expansion of transport and communication, it has become a part of worldwide process of urbanization and industrialization. In most countries, it has been observed that industrialization and economic development has been accompanied by large-scale movements of people from villages to towns, from towns to other towns and from one country to another country. From the demographic point of view, migration is one of the three basic components of population growth of any area, the other being fertility and mortality. But whereas both fertility and mortality operate within the biological framework, migration does not. It influences size, composition and distribution of population. More importantly, migration influences the social, political and economic life of the people. This study is an attempt to find out the socio-economic reasons for migration and their socio-economic consequences.
Keywords: Migration, Migration in Delhi, Rural-Urban Migration
INTRODUCTION
During the days when there is a lot of economic and industrial development in various parts of the country and when movement of the population has intensified, emphasis should be given to further understanding and study of the trends and patterns of migration. Several studies found that volume of interstate migration in India was low but asserted the fact that about one third of India's population is enumerated outside their place of birth indicating the importance of migration as a major demographic process in India. Moreover, when regional fertility and mortality differentials decline, migration becomes the foremost component influencing the redistribution of population.
Within development studies, migration has not received the attention it deserves. This is one of the central conclusions of the review of the literature on migration presented in this work. I will argue that labour migration, between and within urban and rural areas, has to be seen as a central element in the livelihoods of many households in developing, poor as well as rich. Much of the literature focuses on movements of people as a result of crises - environmental, economic or demographic. Yet migration is also a 'normal' element of most, if not all societies. This study addresses itself to scholars of development studies, with a plea to integrate the analyses of migration within those of agricultural and...