Migration and Economic Development of Child Labor: Some Reflections

Prabhakara Narasandra, Institute for Social And Economic Change

Abstract This paper examines the rural-urban migration patterns of children who move to urban areas of India, either on their own or with their parents. It explores the consequences that the migration process driven by economic and social reasons has on children’s education. This paper is based on a critical review of the available literature on child labor in India and of academic studies on child migration. The findings of this work show that the inter-links between migration and education are more complex than the simple assumption that children’s migration underestimates their education, and the literature suggests an ambivalent picture. However, poverty as well as the poor standards of education in the country, are strong arguments in explaining these linkages

Keywords: Internal Migration and Urbanization, Economic Demography, Population and Development

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