(Photocredit: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/dharavi) Squatter settlements and over-crowded slums are home to millions like Dharavi, Mumbai |
I’m a part of this same trend as well and migrated away from my home to another state in search of three important things – better education, better opportunities and more importantly security. I might have gotten it all, maybe I am happier & luckier too, I don’t know that yet, and maybe I don’t want to know. In this regard, the situation with rural migrants is similar, they may not know or may not wish to know where they might have landed.
- Further Reading about Internal Immigration and Health
- Issues about Migration and Immigration – http://www.fao.org/wairdocs/ad696e/ad696e04.htm
- Video about Migrant workers and health issues – http://www.avert.org/hiv-india.htm