Internal Migration in India: Nature, Determinants and Consequences (In 2 Volumes)

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This book, running into two volumes, seeks to examine the nature, causes and consequences of internal migration in India. Containing 32 research papers, it deals with the trends and magnitude of internal migration, rural labour migration, labour shortage in agriculture, causes and remedies of migration of girl-child workers, migration for domestic work, and linkage between poverty and migration.

Analyzing the issue of social security of unorganized labour, it assesses the impact of MGNREGA on rural labour migration. It also discusses at length the rights of migrant labour at workplaces, status of migratory child labour in agriculture, gender dimension of rural-urban migration, and development-caused displacement. The effect of male migration on female labour market has been examined as well.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR K.K. Bagchi

Dr. K.K. Bagchi is currently Professor and head at the department of economics, North Bengal University, Raja Rammohunpur, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. He has a wide teaching experience ay undergraduate, postgraduate and research levels. He is also supervising research works of students at M.Phil. and Ph.D. levels. His main fields of interest are Agricultural economics, development economics and labour economics. He has till date to his credit 12 research articles published in various national and international journals and two text books at undergraduate level and six books as research publications. He has also presented a number of papers at University, State, national and international level Workshops, Seminars and Conferences.