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The migration literature at the turn of the century has focused more on international migration (with transnationalism and globalisation becoming buzz words) than on the traditional internal migration between rural and urban areas, between villages, towns and cities. Another dimension has been added with environmental migration or migration as a result of environmental degradation or climate change. South Asian scholarship too has had to traverse such pathways. Rather than looking at migration as binaries, internal and external, rural-urban or traditional or modern, it makes more sense to treat it as being historically rooted. Though some scholars have represented traditional societies in South Asia as being sedentary and stable (Dewey, 1972; Bremen, 1988; Inden, 1990), historians have argued that spatial mobility was as common as sedentary living in pre-colonial India (Osella and Gardner, 2004, p.xiii).
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Guhathakurta, M. (2015). Indigenous Women’s Migration to Cities: Root Causes, Coping Mechanisms and Gendered Transformations. In: Hillmann, F., Pahl, M., Rafflenbeul, B., Sterly, H. (eds) Environmental Change, Adaptation and Migration. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137538918_8
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