Himmat Singh Ratnoo

Migration of Labour in India

The squatter settlements of Delhi

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Produktbeschreibung

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 urban policy in India, the book is of interest to academics studying migration of labour and urbanization, and those interested in South Asian Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 563g
• ISBN-13: 9781138962736
• ISBN-10: 1138962732
• Artikelnr.: 43677153

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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