{"id":129483,"date":"2021-08-28T14:45:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T09:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=129483"},"modified":"2021-08-28T14:45:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T09:15:20","slug":"types-of-climate-induced-migration-in-india","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/types-of-climate-induced-migration-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Climate induced migration in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within the Indian context, climate-induced migration can be broadly divided into two categories.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Category 1<\/strong><\/span>: The first category is migrants who are <strong>forced to move from rural to urban areas<\/strong> as a result of an environmental disaster that might have destroyed their homes and farms.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>These migrants often seek refuge in mega-cities for the large range of opportunities they present. So in the case of Mumbai, a number of migrants from the South might have moved to the city as a result of land degradation and desertification back home while migrants from the North have largely moved owing to drought.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Category 2<\/strong><\/span>: The second category of climate-induced migrants most relevant to India are migrants who move from Bangladesh in search of a better life in India. Bangladesh is one of the world\u2019s most natural disaster prone countries \u2014 a fourth of its land is just five feet above sea level, while two-thirds is less than 15 feet above sea level.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the last three decades, close to a million people have been rendered homeless as a consequence of increasing erosion in the Brahmaputra river basin.<\/li>\n<li>The Sunderban Delta in Bangladesh is also seeing a constant rise in sea levels and incidents of salt-water intrusions. It is estimated<span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">\u00a0that a mammoth 50-120 million migrants may end up becoming climate refugees of Bangladesh in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2018\/08\/taking-indias-climate-migrants-seriously\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Diplomat<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the Indian context, climate-induced migration can be broadly divided into two categories. Category 1: The first category is migrants who are forced to move from rural to urban areas as a result of an environmental disaster that might have destroyed their homes and farms. These migrants often seek refuge in mega-cities for the large&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/types-of-climate-induced-migration-in-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Types of Climate induced migration in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-129483","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}