Geo-Eye

Abstract

Migration is a complex and dynamic process in which persons move from one place to another through time and space. It is a vast population movement often undertaken under hazardous conditions. People migrate for various reason, such as better employment opportunities, in search of land for growing crops, better living standards, desire to get rich quickly through mining and other prospects, search for a more religiously tolerant society and need for political freedom. Migration from rural-rural, rural-urban, and urban-urban is not merely movement of people, but it is a fundamental factor helping to explain the ever-changing space-content and space-relations in a country. It is a vital process bringing in changes in the distributional pattern of population and is basic to understand the spread of people at any given moment in time [Gurudev Singh Ghosal, 1961]. The movement could be either internal or international. Internal migration is an important demographic phenomenon, which reflects many socio-economic aspects of a region. In this study an attempt has been made to bring to focus some aspects of internal migration in Karnataka and to analyze some of the factors behind the internal movement of the population.