Socio-Economic Causes of Male Rural Out-Migration from Uttar Pradesh: An Inter-State Analysis
Asian Resonance(P: ISSN No. 0976-8602 RNI No.UPENG/2012/42622
VOL.-7, ISSUE-4, October-2018 E: ISSN No. 2349-9443 )
Abstract
Shazia
Senior Research Fellow,
Deptt.of Geography,
Aligarh Muslim University,
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
This study aims to investigate the geographical patterns of socio-economic causes of rural out-migration of male population from Uttar Pradesh to the states and union territories of India. The research is based on secondary sources of data, collected from Census of India publications (2001), New Delhi. The boundary of a state/ union territory has been considered as the smallest unit of study. The data regarding the place of last residence (duration of residence one to four years) of the male migrants of all the age-groups have been taken into account. The overall analysis of the study reveals that work/employment is the most dominant reason of rural out-migration of male population and it alone accounts for 67.27 percent of total male rural out-migration from Uttar Pradesh, followed by moved with household (18.51 percent). The states of Himachal Pradesh (77.95 percent) and Maharashtra (75.12 percent) received the highest rural male out-migrants from Uttar Pradesh due to the reason of work/employment. Similarly, the states of Manipur (55.26 percent) and Jammu and Kashmir (38.45 percent) witnessed the highest inflow of rural male migrants who moved with their household from the study area. The proportion of male migrants, who moved due to education, is 2.43 percent, while 2.16 percent moved for businesss, 2.13 percent moved after their birth, 0.33 percent for marriage and remaining 7.17 percent migrated due to other miscellaneous causes.
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