Thanks Vladimir for sharing yr vies. I will also go for the same technique as you... I am just searching that whether there is any secondary source of data about seasonal migration.. Till date I haven't found anything ...

I agree with Valadimir. Because most of the countries don't have a special department o census system for check and balance of the seasonal migration. They all rely on statistical assumption and their periodic national census system.

The main reason for seasonal migration is seasonal job. The main source of data for this type of migration could be Labour Force Survey with quarterly periodicity. In some countries  are organized special household surveys for migration and than census data are very important for good sampling and estimations.

Dear Professor Borse

There is extensive information on seasonal migration schemes (often labelled "managed circular migration" schemes) in reports on population movement released by the World Bank, the OECD and the UN Population Division.  Some of these reports contain comparative statistics.  Most of the schemes that are documented in these sources involve movement of labour across international boundaries.

Two collections of essays published in the 1980s addressing a wide range of temporary forms of population movement both within countries as well as across international borders were republished by Routledge last year.  They are edited by R.M. Prothero and M. Chapman asnd their titles are:

Chapman, M and Prothero, R.M (1985 - republished 2015) Circulation in Population Movement: Substance and Concepts from the Melanesian Case

Prothero, R.M. and Chapman, M. (1985 - republished 2015) Circulation in Third World Countries (which includes as essay on India as I recall).

Best wishes

Richard Bedford, University of Waikato

yes, there are 2 papers on India

As Professor Bedford highlighted there has been many publications on organized temporary labour schemes. Many of them also contain statistics. However in India much seasonal mobility is happening rather unorganized in the sense that state authorities are not involved. Most of such mobilities are related to harvesting seasons in agriculture, pastoralism, and to construction activities. Here it is often required to make own estimations, which of course can be only on case study level and not for the entire country.

You can check the Indian Census, but seasonal / temporary mobilities are recorded insufficiently, but check for yourself

 http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011-Common/CensusData2011.html

When I did research for my Master's thesis on rural development in Rajasthan I came across seasonal migration of pastoralists. Here nothing had been published that could give an idea of numbers, but some officials in the State Government could give an estimation. So I would suggest approaching people working in animal husbandry, agriculture, etc. They often have insights that never make it to the level of being published. 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234719887_Temporary_and_seasonal_migration_in_India

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1006363628308

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