Trends in mobility in India: issues of labour market integration and exclusion of vulnerable sections of the population. Issue 4 (2nd October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kundu, Amitabh
• Is Part Of: Area development and policy. Volume 4:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 346
• Page End: 366
• Publication Date: 2019-10-02
• Subjects: migration -- urbanization -- census and National Sample Survey (NSS) data -- economic survey -- labour market -- mobility of women -- rural–urban disparity and Muslim exclusion; ; 人口迁移； -- 城市化； -- 人口普查及国家抽样调查数据； -- 经济调查； -- 劳动力市场； -- 女性人口流动； -- 城乡差异及反穆斯林; migración -- urbanización -- datos del censo y de la encuesta nacional por muestreo -- estudio económicomercado laboral -- movilidad de las mujeres -- desigualdad urbana-rural -- exclusión de la población musulmana; миграция -- урбанизация -- данные переписей и национального выборочного обследования -- экономическое обследованиерынок труда -- мобильность женщин -- неравенство сельских городов и мусульманская изоляция; Regional planning -- BRIC countries -- Periodicals; Economic development -- BRIC countries -- Periodicals; Rural-urban relations -- BRIC countries -- Periodicals; Human geography -- BRIC countries -- Periodicals; Regional planning -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Economic development -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Rural-urban relations -- Periodicals; Human geography -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; 338.90091724
• DOI: 10.1080/23792949.2019.1600375
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2379-2949

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper analyses the proposition that the process of migration and urbanization in India has opened up in recent years, enabling people to move freely and leading to labour market integration, using data from the population census and National Sample Survey (NSS). Based on a critical examination of methodological and data-related issues and the insights on migration gained from the recent Economic Survey and India Human Development Survey, it questions the thesis that mobility in general has gone up significantly notwithstanding the increased mobility and absorption of poor and unskilled women in low-level service sector jobs, particularly in urban areas. Taking the case of the Muslim population, it argues that migration of socioeconomically vulnerable sections of the population has gone down.