Negative effects of migration:

1. Unregulated urbanization:

• Poor migrants are generally very less educated and do not possess much skills. When they migrate from villages to cities they cannot afford to buy proper houses. Hence, they have to helplessly live in slums and in the city peripheries.
• Hutments and slums expand. All this results in uncontrolled urbanization in cities.

2. Shortage of infrastructural facilities:

• Facilities in the cities are planned considering its population. Sharp rise in urbanization, hutments and dirty slum dwellings make it difficult for the city administrators to provide enough water, drainage, road, transportation, communication, toilets, education, school, health services, etc. considering the limited resources and budget.
• As a result, serious problems like dirt, filth and life-threatening diseases spread among poor.

3. Problem of environmental pollution:

• Increased hutments and dirty slum dwellings give rise to shortage of toilets and drainage, waste removal system and hence increases environmental pollution.
• Cities like Ahmedabad, Ankleshwar, Surat, Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, etc. are few of the top cities facing these problems at a large scale.
• Over-migration in cities of Gujarat, especially Ahmedabad increases problem of transportation tremendously. Use of both public as well as private transport increases and hence serious problems of air pollution are created.
• Migration also causes noise pollution and water pollution.

4. Social evils:

• At times, people who migrate from villages to cities in search of a higher and regular income are unable to get desired job or life style.
• Owing to extreme poverty and helplessness sometimes these people get involved to antisocial activities like theft and loots which disturbs the social life of cities.
• Social frictions arise because of differences in the language, culture, life style, etc. between migrants and local people.