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Distinguish between mobility and migration. What are the causes and consequences of rural to urban migration in India?

  • UPSC 2020
  • Population and Settlement Geography

Mobility is the genus, migration the species — mobility covers every form of spatial movement, from daily commuting to pilgrimage, tourism and nomadism; migration is the subset involving a permanent or semi-permanent change of usual residence across a defined boundary.

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  • Mobility and Migration Distinguished on Five Axes
  • Rural Push: Agrarian Distress and Sub-Viable Holdings
  • Urban Pull and the Networks that Channel It
  • The Pull Factors
  • Facilitating Networks
  • Consequences at the Destination: Slums, Informality, Vulnerability
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