Internal Migration in India

Abstract

Movement is a very crucial as well as an inevitable human activity. Until and unless movement occurs, there can be no human interaction or sharing in social, cultural, economic, political or any other context. In formal terms movement of human beings has been understood and explored in form of migration and immigration. Migration denotes that act when a person moves from one place to another. This movement can be from one place to another, within the country; across the national boundaries. Migration can be related to an individual, a family, a group, or also to a community at large. However not leaving any knowledge gap we can also discuss the meaning of immigration here at this point of this paper. Immigration means when an individual family or a group moves to another country from the country of origin with due formal procedures through embassy. Both migrations as well as immigration are very important demographic phenomenon leaving remarkable and noticeable impacts on the place of origin, movement or destination. Migration from one nation to another and migration from state to another state of the same nation, both are two different things.