Migration and Urban Transition in India (eBook, PDF)

A Development Perspective
Redaktion: Bhagat, R. B.; Sahoo, Harihar; Roy, Archana K.

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Produktbeschreibung

Migration has emerged as an important issue in the contemporary global politics and in the discourse around human development. This book highlights the role of migration in socio-economic development and its interdependence with urbanization, employment, labour, and industry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000072693
• Artikelnr.: 59379325

Autorenporträt

R. B. Bhagat is Professor and Head at the Department of Migration and Urban Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India. He has worked as an expert and consultant in various projects under different ministries of the Government of India, UN Population Division, UNESCO, UNICEF and IOM. He was a member of the IUSSP Committee on Demography of Armed Conflict (2006-2010). He was a coordinating lead author of the Migration Chapter of Hindu Kush Himalayan Monitoring and Assessment Programme (HIMAP), ICIMOD, Kathmandu. Over the last three decades, he has frequently published research works on migration and migrants' rights, urbanization, urban policies and right to the city. Archana K. Roy is Professor in the Department of Migration and Urban Studies at the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India. She has earned her degree from BHU in geography and from IIPS in population studies. She has been working in the areas of labour migration, left-behind families and migration of children and has published several research works. Harihar Sahoo is Assistant Professor at the Department of Development Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India. His research interests include fertility, reproductive and child health, population and development. He has published several papers in national and international journals and edited volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on the Contributors. Preface and Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1.
Migration, Urban Transition and Development R. B. Bhagat 2. The
Contribution of Migration in Urbanization of India: Insights from the 2011
census data Gulshan Kumar and Reshmi R. S. 3. Comparing Urban Expansion and
its Consequences in Delhi and Bangalore: A Geospatial approach Ankit
Sikarwar and Aparajita Chattopadhyay 4. Access of Household Amenities and
Assets in Urban India R. B. Bhagat, Sunil Sarode and Laxmikant Dwivedi 5.
Measuring Wealth for Rural and Urban Areas at the District Level: A
Methodological Case Study for Uttar Pradesh Dharmendra Pratap Singh and
Rajesh Kumar Shastry 6. Temporary Labour Migration in India: Regional
Pattern, Characteristics and Associated Factors Kunal Keshri and R. B.
Bhagat 7. Child Work and Child Migration: A Case Study of Maharashtra
Shalini Sen 8. Levels, Pattern and Determinants of Out-migration from Bihar
Archana K. Roy, Reshmi R. S, Sunil Sarode, K. C. Das And R. B. Bhagat 9.
Social and Economic Consequences of International Migration: A Study in
Gujarat, India K. C. Das, R. B. Bhagat, Rajiva Prasad and T. K. Roy 10.
Socio-Economic and Health Conditions of Nepali Migrants in Mumbai Sunil
Sarode, Rajiva Prasad and Sarang Pedgaonkar 11. Barriers to Migration: What
the Refugee Crisis, Brexit and the American Response Tells us S Irudaya
Rajan and Nikhil Panicker 12. Trends and Patterns of Domestic Tourist Flow
in India Rakesh Kumar and R. B. Bhagat 13. Intergenerational Occupational
Mobility among Social and Demographic Groups in India Apyayee Sil and
Preeti Dhillon. Index