The paper is concerned with the high levels of infant and child illness and death amongst poor urban slum communities in Rajasthan, a state with one of the highest infant mortality rates in India. The paper examines the consequences of internal migration for women’s reproductive experiences and for their children’s health and is based on work between 2002-2004 in two urban slums in Jaipur city, the capital of Rajasthan in North West India. The research presented in this paper specifically focuses on the positive and negative roles of migration for the survival prospects of children in Rajasthan. While migration is an increasing feature which defines the lives of the rural and urban poor in India, few studies have considered its effects on the health of migrants and their families.
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