An Empirical Analysis on Quality of Life of Migrants in Tirupur City
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2012
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Migration is die mo\'enicnt o f people from one place to another place, which could be vciluntarily chosen to search for
new and better opportunities or Forced to escape negative or dangerous situation. There ha.s been a steady increase in
India in the number of migrants. In the year 1961 there were about 144 million migrants by place of birch and in 2001 it
has increased to 307 million. Various leasons are attributed to the reasons on niigrarion. The working and living
conditions of the Migrants, who could easily be absorbed in informal activities in urban areas are far from satisfactory.
The present stutly is an attempt to find out the reasons for migration and their living conditions. To carry out die studv,
100 migrants in Tirupur city were selected at random and administering an interview .schedule data frir the study was
collected during the month of November 201.1. The current study exhibits that economic factors outweigh social
lactors for the people to migrate. It further corroborates the Todaros model of migration which says that migration
takes place because of differences in expected wage rates. The analysis reveals that the cjualitv of life of the sample
migrant hotiseholds is far from satislactory.