Busting the popular myth that it does is recently released census data that shows nearly three times more migrants from within Maharashtra than north Indians in the financial capital. The scene is similar in the state too. Migration within the Maharashtra is more than five times that from other parts of the country. Facebook Twitter Linkedin EMail.
He is the first Bihari of stature to say the following, explicitly or by implication: the migrant Bihari population in Delhi has not just a right to livelihood but a right to the city as well. They have also influenced the social, economic and cultural life. Having done that, they can no longer be seen with disdain but deserve respect because they matter to Delhi.
People and political parties, as the Indian Express reported, should take 'respectful note' of the migrants. Also, given their size, there is some assertiveness, which would be missing had the migrants been poor and in minority. Though Biharis do migrate to Mumbai, they do not seem to have the strength they do in Delhi. This is the assertiveness Nitish Kumar showed when speaking on their behalf in New Delhi.
It was not a rhetorical flourish but a statement of fact. No migrant community asserts itself till the numbers show a substantial accretion to their strength. Nitish Kumar's articulation is such a huge change from earlier screams of Bihari politicians who only claimed a right to livelihood, not to a city itself.
One can rewind to what Lalu Prasad Yadav said whenever the Shiv Sena, and later the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena MNS , either protested at outsiders taking away jobs from the locals or prevented them from seeking jobs. Over the same period, the share of migrants to Mumbai from elsewhere in Maharashtra increased from Mumbai had The corresponding numbers for intra-state migrants were Mumbai attracts migrants from every state in India.
The state that sent the largest share of migrants to Mumbai nearly 41 per cent was Uttar Pradesh. It was followed by Gujarat 6. There is also little to differentiate migrants from non-migrants when it comes to employment. At first glance it would appear that migrants are more likely to be employed for the majority of the year than non-migrants. However, this is actually on account of the large share of women among migrants, and women are less likely to be employed.
Among men aged 20 and above, the share of those who worked for most of the year was the same among migrants and non-migrants. At the international level, data on the education levels of Indian immigrants is hard to come by.
In , there were more than three hundred thousand such workers who travelled to the 18 ECR countries in the Gulf and South East Asia. At the other end are Indians in countries such as the US.
Foreign-born people have the same rate of unemployment as native-born across the European Union, data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development shows. Indians in the US have lower unemployment rates than the native-born population, Pew data shows.
Contrary to popular belief, migrants are not the poorest Indians. Data from a National Sample Survey Office NSSO survey of more than a hundred thousand households conducted in show that migration is least common among the poorest.
Better off than those they leave behind, fairly educated, likely to find work and send money home - both domestic and international migrants are helping strengthen the local and home economy. Never miss a story!
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