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Viewing migration in the context of urbanisation, the volume deals with a number of issues like patterns of migration, the migration-urbanisation link, poverty, and processes and policies relating to migration. Analysing in detail the 1991 and 2001 census data, it emphasises upon human dimensions of migration problems. It brings out the causal links between migration, urbanisation and regional disparities across the country, focusing on issues like ...
Indian and Asian mega cities face crucial urban crisis and decay, due to massive migration, urban explosion and over-strained urban services. Phenomena, processes, and planning policies needed are main foci of the study. The book has four parts. First part tells a very sad story of massive poverty-induced migration of illiterate labours into four Indian mega cities. Urban decay in Bangkok, Jakarta,Manila, Shanghai, and Seoul are also discussed. Second, underlying ...
This book deals with two burgeoning issues of India--abject poverty and high fertility--that demand urgent solution. Otherwise, India would remain a poor country, though a software superpower. Most Indian demographers are not concerned with poverty-fertility nexus. Suitable theory also lacks. So, a novel theory, the demographic field theory, is presented herein explaining such nexus, filling up a great lacuna. Many canonical analyses are performed between ...