Deepak K Mishra is a Professor of Economics at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research interests are in the political economy of agrarian change, rural livelihoods and agrarian institutions, labour migration, gender, and human development. He has co-authored The Unfolding Crisis in Assam’s Tea Plantations: Employment and Occupational Mobility (2012). He has co-edited Rethinking Economic Development in Northeast India: The Emerging Dynamics (2017), Land and Livelihoods in Neoliberal India (2020) and Global Poverty: Rethinking Causality (2023).

• List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. List of Abbreviations. Acknowledgements to the First Edition. Acknowledgements to the Second Edition. 1. Introduction: Internal Migration in Contemporary India—An Overview of Issues and Concerns 2. Nature of Migration and Its Contribution to India's Urbanization 3. Women's Mobility and Migration: An Exploratory Study of Muslim Women Migrants in Jamia Nagar, Delhi 4. Migration and Marginalization: A Study of Northeast Migrants in Delhi 5. Labour Migration in the Northeast 6. Educational Migration among Ladakhi Youth 7. Migration in Agrarian Classes: A Study Based on Nine Villages in Andhra Pradesh 8. Migration from Contemporary Bihar 9. Migration and Punjab: Some Perceptions 10. Seasonal Migration from Odisha: A View from the Field 11. Internal Labour Migration in India: Emerging Needs of Comprehensive National Migration Policy 12. Migrant Labour in Contemporary India: The Pandemic and After. Index

Deepak K Mishra is a Professor of Economics at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research interests are in the political economy of agrarian change, rural livelihoods and agrarian institutions, labour migration, gender, and human development. He has co-authored The Unfolding Crisis in Assam’s Tea Plantations: Employment and Occupational Mobility (2012). He has co-edited Rethinking Economic Development in Northeast India: The Emerging Dynamics (2017), Land and Livelihoods in Neoliberal India (2020) and Global Poverty: Rethinking Causality (2023).

• List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. List of Abbreviations. Acknowledgements to the First Edition. Acknowledgements to the Second Edition. 1. Introduction: Internal Migration in Contemporary India—An Overview of Issues and Concerns 2. Nature of Migration and Its Contribution to India's Urbanization 3. Women's Mobility and Migration: An Exploratory Study of Muslim Women Migrants in Jamia Nagar, Delhi 4. Migration and Marginalization: A Study of Northeast Migrants in Delhi 5. Labour Migration in the Northeast 6. Educational Migration among Ladakhi Youth 7. Migration in Agrarian Classes: A Study Based on Nine Villages in Andhra Pradesh 8. Migration from Contemporary Bihar 9. Migration and Punjab: Some Perceptions 10. Seasonal Migration from Odisha: A View from the Field 11. Internal Labour Migration in India: Emerging Needs of Comprehensive National Migration Policy 12. Migrant Labour in Contemporary India: The Pandemic and After. Index

Deepak K Mishra is a Professor of Economics at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research interests are in the political economy of agrarian change, rural livelihoods and agrarian institutions, labour migration, gender, and human development. He has co-authored The Unfolding Crisis in Assam’s Tea Plantations: Employment and Occupational Mobility (2012). He has co-edited Rethinking Economic Development in Northeast India: The Emerging Dynamics (2017), Land and Livelihoods in Neoliberal India (2020) and Global Poverty: Rethinking Causality (2023).

• List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. List of Abbreviations. Acknowledgements to the First Edition. Acknowledgements to the Second Edition. 1. Introduction: Internal Migration in Contemporary India—An Overview of Issues and Concerns 2. Nature of Migration and Its Contribution to India's Urbanization 3. Women's Mobility and Migration: An Exploratory Study of Muslim Women Migrants in Jamia Nagar, Delhi 4. Migration and Marginalization: A Study of Northeast Migrants in Delhi 5. Labour Migration in the Northeast 6. Educational Migration among Ladakhi Youth 7. Migration in Agrarian Classes: A Study Based on Nine Villages in Andhra Pradesh 8. Migration from Contemporary Bihar 9. Migration and Punjab: Some Perceptions 10. Seasonal Migration from Odisha: A View from the Field 11. Internal Labour Migration in India: Emerging Needs of Comprehensive National Migration Policy 12. Migrant Labour in Contemporary India: The Pandemic and After. Index