Himalayan Migration: A Study of the Hill Region of Uttar PradeshAn AltaMira Press Book This timely book provides a comprehensive understanding of the problems of The Hill Region of Uttar Pradesh by examining the impact of out-migration on land and labor productivity, income distributions through transfer income, and the shifting pattern of work burdens between the sexes. |
Contents
Sample Population Characteristics | 30 |
Socioeconomic Situation of the Sample Households | 55 |
Its Causes and Pattern | 74 |
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according accounted activities actual age group agriculture annual Appendix Table average backwardness benefits better Caste Causes cent chapter characteristics cities compared costs costs and benefits cultivated decision Delhi destination Distribution districts earnings economic employment Excluding expectations expenditure females followed Force foregone earnings Garhwal Government growth higher highest Hill Region holdings House household income important in-migrants increased India interior villages labour land landholdings less living lower lowest major males migrant workers migration months move occupation origin out-migration Particulars pattern pension Percentage peri-urban villages period persons Planning population positive present productivity propensity to migrate proportion push factors ratio reasons relatively remittances reported result returned migrants RM households rural sample selected share shows social sources status survey Total transfer U.P. hills unemployed urban Uttar Pradesh villages wage workers