Pattern of Migration in Metropolitan Cities of India

The current research paper is an attempt to understand the salient features of international and internal migration in metropolitan cities. The phenomenon of migration is reflected by streams, by distance categories, source areas of in-migration, reasons of migration. The results of the study on the bases of census 2001 revealed the contours of life time migration in metropolitan cities and provided answer to questions like: What is the pattern of migration? What are the pull/push factors that affect migration?