Anglo-Irish Population Conference, 12-13 May, 2010
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The Anglo-Irish Population Conference, under the auspices of the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG and Population Commission of the International Geographical Union, will take place on 12-13 May, 2010. The theme this year is: Contemporary labour migration: national and international perspectives to be held at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Papers are invited, consisting of abstracts of maximum 300 words. The deadline for submission is 12th March 2010.
For submissions and further inforamtion please see: www.nuigalway.ie/labour_migration/conference/
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Comment from Chandrashekhar
Time March 12, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Migration has played most important role in changing demographic characteristics of the city. Total migrant population was 5.2 million in the year 2001, of which 2.5 million (48%) are workers. Out of the total migrant workers, male and female migrant workers constitute 88 percent and 12 percent respectively. Largest percentage of male migrants is employed in manufacturing industries, constituting 28.21 percent of the total migrants. It becomes clear from the finding that more than forty percent migrants are in the prime productive age group that is, in the age group fifteen to thirty five. This may be a reflection of liberalization of Indian economy after 1991. Little less than half of the migrants in Mumbai are from within the states and rest is from outside the state. There is more male participation in workforce. This is more than fifty percent in case of males and this is evident from sex-ratio of the migrant workers. The situation is almost same in case of migrants as well as non-migrants. In almost all the industrial categories, the percentage of non-migrants are more than migrants. Also proportion of male non-migrants is more in all industrial categories. In almost all industrial categories, the sex-ratio of migrants is highly skewed in favour of males. That is, even if there is feminization of the process of migration in the other parts of the world but, in India there is no such phenomenon happening.