Dynamics of Indian Migration: Historical and Current Perspectives

by Rajan,S. Irudaya

• ISBN13: 9780415685665
• ISBN10: 0415685664
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781000083705
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2011-11-29
• Publisher: Routledge India

Summary

This volume is a multidisciplinary approach to the subject of Indian international emigration and comprises contributions by demographers, economists, sociologists, geographers, anthropologists and historians. The book highlights emerging issues such as the political economy of international migration, skilled and unskilled migration, body shopping, return migration, immigration policies in the Gulf and experiences of emigrants from the states of Kerala and Punjab. It focuses on the current dimensions like skilled migrants in the IT sector of Malaysia, the entrepreneurial ventures of Keralites in the UAE, household remittances, inequality and poverty in Kerala, the gender dimension of Indian migration (with focus on nurses and housemaids in the Gulf) and cross-border migratory movements connected to the European Union, with an overview of the migration of Sikhs and Tamils to France. Finally, it carries a discussion of the evolution of India'¬"s public policies towards its diaspora.

Author Biography

S. Irudaya Rajan is Chair Professor, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA), Research Unit on International Migration at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Marie Percot is associated with the Laboratoire dAnthropologie Urbaine/lnstitut Interdisciplinaire dAnthropologie du Contemporain (EHESS/ French National Council for Scientific Research).

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. xi
List of Boxes	p. xiii
Preface and Acknowledgements	p. xv
Introduction: Dynamics of Indian Migration	p. 1
Historical and Current Perspectives
British Colonialism and International Migration from India: Four Destinations	p. 23
Sikh Migration to France	p. 49
Tamils in France	p. 64
International Perspectives
Immigration Policies of the GCC Countries: Implications and Responses	p. 93
Development of Entrepreneurial Initiatives in the UAE among Kerala Emigrants	p. 164
Transcending Boundaries: Indian Nurses in Internal and International Migration	p. 195
Governmentality, Social Stigma and Quasi-citizenship: Gender Negotiations of Migrant Women Domestic Workers from Kerala	p. 224
Skilled Emigration and Return Migration
Bridging the Binaries of Skilled and Unskilled Migration from India	p. 251
Malaysia: A Launching Pad in the Global Circulation of the Indian Software Professionals	p. 286
Return Migration in the Light of the New Indian Diaspora Policy: Emerging Transnationalism	p. 301
Emigration Experiences from Punjab and Kerala
In Search of Distant Shores: Exploring Contemporary Emigration from the Indian Punjab	p. 321
Economic and Social Dynamics of Migration in Kerala, 1998-2003: Analysis of Panel Data	p. 361
Household Remittances, Inequality and Poverty: Evidence from the State of Kerala	p. 378
About the Editors	p. 418
Notes on Contributors	p. 419
Index	p. 422
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