1st Edition
Dreaming Mobility and Buying Vulnerability Overseas Recruitment Practices in India
252 Pages
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Routledge India
252 Pages
by
Routledge India
252 Pages
by
Routledge India
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In the alarming contemporary context of widespread corruption and fraudulence in the overseas labour recruitment system in India, this book attempts to understand the institution of emigration governance and recruitment practices in the country with a focus on the unskilled and semi-skilled sectors. It brings together the results of research in the major emigration hubs of India with the aid of... Read more
List of Tables, Figures and Abbreviations. Preface Introduction 1. Making of the Institution 2. Process of Emigration: Mounting Costs and Paltry Returns 3. Vulnerability, Intensity of Corruption and Institutional Failure 4. Between Unfettered and Controlled Informality: Testimonies of an Enervated Institution 5. Summary and Recommendations Appendix I: Emigration Act, 1922 Appendix II: Emigration Act, 1983 Appendix III: Emigration (Amendment) Rules, 2009. About the Authors. Index.
Biography
S. Irudaya Rajan is Chair Professor of the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) Research Unit on International Migration, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
V. J. Varghese is Assistant Professor at Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
M. S. Jayakumar is Assistant Professor and Assistant Director at Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP), Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala.
