Migration, identity, and conflict : India migration report, 2011 / editor, S. Irudaya Rajan.

1. Facets of Indian Mobility: an update -- 2. Internal migration in India: are the underclas more mobile? -- 3. Rural-to-urban migration in India: a district-level analysis -- 4. Short-duration migration in India -- 5. Magnitude of migration from the northeastern regions of India -- 6. Politics of conflict and migration -- 7. Can the licensing-inspection mechanism deliver justice to interstate migrant workmen? -- 8. In search of livelihoods: migration and mobility from Karnataka to Goa -- 9. Reasons for rural-urban migration: recent evidences from Bangalore -- 10. Job recruitment networks and migration to cities in India -- 11. Caste, ethnicity and migration: linking recruitment and labour process -- 12. Migration and female employment in India: macro-evidence from NSSO data -- 13. Multiple identities and migratory dynamics of nurses -- 14. Closely woven: domestic work and internal migration of women in India -- 15. On examining migration -poverty nexus in urban India -- 16. Outside and inside the nation: migrant narratives and the making of a productive citizen in Kerala -- 17. Impact of emigration and remittances on Goan economy -- 18. Emigration and remittances in Kerala in the context of surge in oil prices -- 19. High-skilled migration from India: an analysis of its economic implications.

This book examines identities, violence and conflict in the context of internal migration within India. As India prepares to count its citizens for Census 2011 with a proposal for a National Population Register and a unique identity card for every Indian citizen, the debate on internal and cross-border migration is significant. The second volume in this annual series, India Migration Report 2011 focuses on the implications of internal migration, livelihood strategies, recruitment processes, and development and policy concerns in critically reviewing the existing institutional framework. The essays provide a district-level analysis of the various facets of migration with a focus on employment networks, gender dimensions and migration{u2013}development linkages, with concrete policy suggestions to improve living and working conditions of vulnerable migrant workers who are a lifeline to the growth of Indian economy. This will be an invaluable resource for those in the fields of demography, economics, sociology, public policy and administration.

Contributed articles.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes statistical tables.