ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on information about currently married women, of both migrant and non-migrant households, in the reproductive age group of 18–49 years. The data was partly collected during the Kerala Migration Survey 2013. The chapter, through statistical analysis of the change in fertility behaviour of women in migrant and non-migrant households, examines if there is any impact of migration on the fertility of Kerala. It is seen that migrant households have early child-bearing behaviour compared to non-migrant households. Among women who have completed their fertility by reaching the age of 45–49 years or through permanent methods of sterilisation, female children are over-represented in migrant households, while male children are over-represented in other households. This chapter concludes that migration alone cannot stand in the way of demographic transformation; there are other factors which are proximate determinants of fertility such as religion, age of women, education and work status
