Dimensions of vulnerability in rural and urban areas : a case of migrants in Karnataka
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2017-03
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Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA)
Abstract
The high growth regime in India during the last two decades has been widely critiqued for its apparently exclusionary development process that has rendered agrarian livelihoods untenable. When combined with climatic stressors – like changing rainfall and increasing temperature – this unviability of rural agrarian livelihoods has led to increased out-migration to the cities. However, the lack of opportunities in agriculture has not been compensated by increased quality job opportunities in urban areas. This structural imbalance has created a mass exodus of rural workers necessitated to engage in precarious city jobs.
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This work was carried out under the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), with financial support from the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DfID) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.
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Policy Brief
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VULNERABILITY, RURAL-URBAN AREAS, MIGRATION, INDIA