AGE-SEX WISE REASONS OF INTERNAL MIGRATION IN UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA

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  • Prof. Jabir Hasan Khan Shazia Rashid Dr. Shamshad Professor, Department of Geography, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (U.P.),

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:-  This article is  an attempt to investigate the age-sex wise reasons of internal migration in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The study is based on secondary sources of data, collected from Census of India publications (2001), New Delhi. The data regarding the place of last residence (duration of residence one to four years) of the migrants of the different age-groups have been taken into account. For the purpose of easy explanation and understanding, the age groups of the migrant population have been clubbed into four broad categories namely, youth(0-14 years), young adult(15-34 years), old adult(35-59years) and old(60-80+ years) age-groups. The overall analysis of the study reveals that among internal migration streams, the rural to rural migrants registered more than two-third share of migrants, followed by rural to urban, urban to urban and urban to rural migrants in Uttar Pradesh. Moreover, the majority of migrants belonged to the young adult(15-34 years) age-group in all the migration streams. The proportion of  male migrants was also greater than the female migrants in all migration streams, except the rural to rural migration stream, in which, the share of female migrants was higher than the male migrants in all ages.    As far as reasons of migration are concerned marriage, moved with household and work/ employment  were the most dominant reasons of internal migration in the state. The reason of marriage was found to be prominent in rural to rural and urban to rural migration streams, whereas, moved with household and work/employment emerged as an important reason in rural to urban and urban to urban migration streams in all ages. However, work/employment among male migrants and marriage among female migrants were recorded the foremost reasons of migration in all ages among all migration streams in the study area.

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2016-06-30

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Vol. 5 No. 7 (2016): JUNE 2016

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