“Migration” is one of the past forces that have formed the world. Migration has been always being a part of human behaviour, validity but they are not based on a clear definition of migration.
Migration is shift from one place of residence to another place for some length of time or permanently including different types of voluntary movements. It has great impact on social, cultural, economic and psychological life of people. In India the labour migration is mostly influenced by social structures and pattern of development. Uneven development is the main reason of migration along with factors like poverty, landholding system, and fragmentations of land, lack of employment opportunities, large family-size and natural calamities. …show more content…
Most of the population lives in urban areas the inter-urban migration is governed largely by the economic factors. The people move from one urban area to another urban area because improving their employment prospects.
RURAL TO RURAL MIGRATION:
The movement of people may take place from rural area to rural area. Rural population is response to the changing pattern of employment potential of different areas, it has been made to such migrations, which are directed towards areas experiencing development of irrigation, reclamation of waste lands, such a migration originates from crowded areas of low agricultural productivity and is directed towards sparsely populated areas experiencing large scale developmental activities.
URBAN TO RURAL MIGRATION:
Urban to sub-urban/rural migration is relatively less compared to other type of migration. Such a movement takes place at the advanced stage of urbanisation. Such residential migration is limited to short distance and accelerates communizing. in case of India many of the retired personnel tend to settle in their native villages where they still have their landed …show more content…
(1969, 136 p.) placed emphasis on distance, human will and change in permanent residence in migration. He described that the term “migration” has various shades of meaning. Most commonly migration involves a movement of some distance, which results in a change in permanent residence. According to him, this restrictive definition would exclude other types of human mobility, including the daily trek of travellers between a city and its peripheral area. The seasonal shifts of migrant’s worker the temporary and irregular movements of tourists, and the wanderings of pastoral nomads. The usual definition of migration is stretched so that it may include a wide range of population mobility, even though space may not permit a meaningful discussion of all forms.
EISENSTADT, S.N. (1953, pp. 167-180) defined migration as the physical transition of an individual or a group from one society to another. This transition normally involves abandoning one social setting and entering another, and different one. His emphasis is mainly on leaving a whole set of social life of a person’s previous residential region and establishing a new set of social life in a latter or new region where he migrated and decided to