ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the gender dimension of migration in urban India and mainly focuses on the changes in the process of migration and tries to identify the possible reasons for migration in urban India. In India, there are two major data sources of migration: Census of India and Indian National Sample Survey (NSS). It focuses on the changes in the factors influencing women's migration. These changes namely temporal changes in migration in urban India, reasons for migration, socio-economic status of migrants, work status of migrants, and finally factors influencing the migration in urban India excluding marriage as a reason for migration. Migration in India is mostly influenced by social structure and patterns of development. Education is the most important matter to be considered in inducing rural-urban migration. It is worthwhile to emphasize that while rising economic and social status is associated with higher level of both men's and women's migration in urban areas.
