Internal Migration in Contemporary India. This item is unavailable.Internal Migration in Contemporary India

A comprehensive analysis of the diverse experiences of migration in contemporary India.

This volume addresses the impact of migration on society, highlighting the interlinkages between individual and societal aspirations. It interrogates the role of the state and non-state agencies involved in various aspects of the life and livelihoods of migrant workers and provides a critical assessment of the policy frameworks and instruments affecting migration.

Focusing on the diverse aspects and types of internal migration, the book studies the exploitation and marginalization of migrants on the basis of class, caste, religion, gender, ethnicity and regional location in post-reform India.

Deepak K. Mishra is currently Professor of Economics at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has worked in the areas of agrarian change, livelihood, labour and employment and economic transformation of mountain economies. He has co-authored The Unfolding Crisis in Assam’s Tea Plantations: Employment and Occupational Mobility (Routledge, 2012). He was a Commonwealth Visiting Fellow at Oxford University during 2008–09. In 2012, he was Visiting Professor at the International Centre for South Asian Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow.