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When Daughters Migrate and Mothers Do Not: Girl Children’s Paid Outside Work in West Bengal, India

Deepita Chakravarty and Ishita Chakravarty SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper Series No 175 – 2012 As many of the discriminatory practices against girl children and women primarily take place within the household, the family seems to have a crucial role in determining such outcomes. However, it needs to be remembered that gender discrimination takes [...]

On the Internal Mobility of Indians: Knowledge Gaps and Emerging Concerns

by c. Chandrasekhar and Ajay Sharma IGIDR Wp-2012-023, September 2012 This paper identifies key knowledge gaps on the issue of migration and commuting workers in India First, we need to understand how the sources of income of rural households in India have changed over time. We need to be able to quantify the importance of [...]

Internal migration and labour market integration: Breakthroughs in organizing and collectivizing migrant workers in India

by Rajiv Khandelwal Migration Policy and Practice. Vol. II, Number 4, August–September 2012 P.6 Seasonal migration for work is a pervasive reality in rural India. An overwhelming 120 million people or more are estimated to migrate from rural areas to urban labour markets, industries and farms. Migration has become essential for people from regions that face frequent shortages of rainfall [...]

When Daughters Migrate and Mothers Do Not: Girl Children’s Paid Outside Work in West Bengal, India

by Deepita Chakravarty and Ishita Chakravarty SOAS WP No. 175, 2012 As many of the discriminatory practices against girl children and women primarily take place within the household, the family seems to have a crucial role in determining such outcomes. However, it needs to be remembered that gender discrimination takes different forms in different socio-economic [...]

Strangers in Their Own Land Migrants from the North-East in Delhi

Babu P Remesh Vol – XLVII No. 22, June 02, 2012 Based on the fi ndings of a fi eld study, various dimensions of outmigration of youth from India’s north-eastern region to Delhi are discussed. It is viewed that central to hardships of the migrants in the city is a “cultural gap” between the migrant [...]

VULNERABILITY OF MIGRANTS AND RESPONSIVENESS OF THE STATE: THECASE OF UNSKILLED MIGRANT WORKERS IN KERALA, INDIA

by N Ajith Kumar CSES Working Paper No.26, October 2011 This paper examines the dimensions of vulnerability of migrant labourers in a sub-national context viz., that of Kerala state in India. The state has been witnessing large inflow of migrant labourers not only from the neighbouring states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka but also from [...]

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