The migration of labor in the world is not a new phenomenon; it had started in an ancient period and is continuing. The migration labour started moving from one place to another place for the purpose of seeking the job. These labour were placed in unorganized sectors like construction, brick kilns, road, railways, plantation, agriculture, canal work, etc. The human rights of migrant labor are violated in many ways in their workplace. The main causes of migration of these people from one place to another place, poverty are one of the major causes and there is lack of job opportunity and low wage in their own village. These are the major causes of migration people of underdeveloped states like Orissa, Bihar, and Jharkhand. For the eradication of poverty, the government of India has been implemented many programme MGNREGA, SGRY, NSFW, and PDS, but these programmes are not effectively implemented in these states. So the people are migrating one place another place for seeking of the job. For the protection of migrant labour, the government formed legislation. The results were tabulated by using the logistic regression model. The present study had map out the determinants and consequences of migration in Chennai city. The study also introspected the differences between the Tamil Migrants and north Indian migrants in order to map out how far the social capital or economic sociology operates in economic activity which has not been dealt by the previous studies adequately.