Results from this study show that unskilled and illiterate distressed migrants are compelled to make quantum jumps from stagnated rural areas to metropolitan areas, leading to urban over-congestion, urban atrophy, proliferation of urban informal sectors, urban unemployment, and frequent break down of essential urban services.
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Mukerji, S. Poverty-induced migration and urban involution in India: Causes and consequences. Research Monograph Series. International Institute for Population Sciences, 1994.
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1994
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