The present book focuses on the dynamics of internal and international migration at origin. In developing countries, labour migration is poverty-driven and adopted as a household livelihood strategy. It occurs from lagging regions to the prosperous regions in response to regional disparity. In India, labour migration is characterized by illiterate or semi-literate, unskilled or semi-skilled, young able bodied rural youth who move to various urban centres in search of employment. Eastern Uttar Pradesh is one of the highest populated and the most backward regions in India. History of male...