ABSTRACT
This chapter covers three aspects of the flow of migration: first, it examines the basics of who moved, where, and how many. Second, it examines the impacts of migration on literacy and occupation rates at the district level. Third, people study the specific case of jute cultivation in Bengal and Bangladesh to assess whether economies incorporate and benefit from migrants. The chapter also examines whether partition-related migratory flows determined which areas produced jute in response to the sudden supply shock. Therefore, while people relate the demographic and economic changes to the influx of new migrants, they are neither able to examine the mechanisms of these relationships nor to claim causal relationships in the strict sense of the word. The chapter also discusses other empirical works on the partition, the characteristics of the migratory flows, the impacts that these flows had on literacy, occupation, and gender ratios, and the link between partition-related migration and the jute industry in West Bengal.
