Who goes? Who stays back? Seasonal migration and staying put among rural manual workers in Eastern India

Journal of International Development

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 623-632

  Rogaly, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR MIGRATION; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

INDIA;

EID: 0042200252     PISSN: 09541748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jid.1020     Document Type: Article

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