Migration of Labour in India: The Squatter Settlements of Delhi

ISBN-13: 9780367875206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str.

Himmat Ratnoo

Opis

The book analyses the decisive factors in labour migration. Based upon a thorough and robust examination of migrants to three slum localities of Delhi stretching over four decades, the author examines why people migrate, the circumstances of their decision and their experience at their destination. Testing the essential theoretical basis for urb

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Himmat Singh Ratnoo is Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Maharshi Dayanand University, India. His research interests include migration and urbanization.