Handbook of Internal Migration in India.

Cover -- Sage History -- Half title -- Full title -- Copyright -- Dedication page -- Marketing page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Preface -- About the Authors -- PART I Introduction -- 1 Migrant Odysseys -- PART II Macro Perspectives -- 2 Employment, Urbanization and Education: Migration's Mega-Challenges -- 3 Rural Migrants with Urban Jobs -- 4 Labour Migration: Trends and Characteristics -- 5 Internal Migration: Emerging Patterns -- 6 Domestic Remittances -- 7 Associated Gains from Migration -- PART III State-Level Perspectives -- 8 Labour Casualization and Spatial Mobility -- 9 Temporary Labour Migration -- 10 Student Migration -- 11 Building Resilience: Compulsions and Challenges -- 12 Impact of Migration on the Local Labour Markets -- 13 Demographic and Social Profile -- 14 Impact of Rural Out-Migration -- 15 Migration and Widening Labour Divide -- 16 Diversification of Household Labour -- 17 Distress Migration -- PART IV Migration and Caste -- 18 Migration and Caste -- 19 Migration Trends and Vulnerable Populations -- 20 Labour Process in Migration -- 21 Nasrani Family Histories and Migration -- 22 Tribal Migration -- 23 The Saga of Tribal Livelihood Migration -- PART V Migration and Gender -- 24 Gendered Spatialities -- 25 Unexplored Facets of Female Migration -- 26 Female Caste-based Labour Migration -- 27 Women's Economic Migration -- 28 Middle Class Women's Migration -- 29 Women Workers on the Move -- 30 Narratives of Left-Behind Women -- PART VI Migration and Urbanization -- 31 Urban Migration and Policy Issues -- 32 Migration and Urbanization -- 33 Circular Migrationand Urban Housing -- 34 Occupational Mobility in Migrants -- 35 Maternal Healthcare in Slums -- PART VII Migration and Politics -- 36 Displacement and the Biopolitics of Development.

37 Migrant, City and Changing Lives -- 38 Adverse Incorporations and Subnational Welfarism -- 39 Spaces of Alienation and Resistance -- 40 Politics of Sons of Soil -- PART VIII Emerging Issues -- 41 Nature of 'Unfreedom' among Migrants -- 42 Climate Change and Migration Nexus -- 43 Behind the Shining Brick and Mortar -- 44 Cyclical Mobility -- 45 Migrant and Language -- 46 Family Migration -- 47 Precarious Employment in Power Looms -- 48 Economic Inequality and Migration -- 49 Needs of Migrants -- PART IX Migration Policy -- 50 Migration Policy: Where Do We Stand? -- 51 Integration Policies fo rInterstate Migrants -- 52 Vulnerability and Social Protection Access -- 53 Access to Maternal Health Programmes -- 54 Challenges to Stakeholders -- 55 Exclusion of Migrants in Policy -- 56 Migration and Financial Transfers -- Index.

This handbook presents a comprehensive discussion on internal migration issues and related development concerns in India; it offers a fresh perspective through interdisciplinary research lens and presents a wide variety of scholarships ranging from migrant experiences from Jammu and Kashmir to Kerala.

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