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This paper discusses why some groups of people succeed in entering accumulative migration pathways while others are excluded. It adopts a social exclusion and livelihoods approach beyond the neo-classical economics and structuralist theories to understand the migration patterns in India. The paper concludes that these patterns are determined by people's access to resources, the environment, intra-household relations, wider social relations and not just the productivity and demand for labor in an area. Furthermore, it identifies ways in which policy can enhance the positive outcomes of more accumulative migration and provide support in the case of the poor who migrate to survive.