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India Migration Report 2013: Social Costs of Migration book cover

1st Edition

India Migration Report 2013 Social Costs of Migration

Edited By S. Irudaya Rajan Copyright 2013
364 Pages
by Routledge India

364 Pages
by Routledge India

This volume is an empirical assessment of an often-neglected space in migration research — social, psychological and human costs for both migrants and the families they leave behind — based on qualitative and quantitative research findings. Globally, the focus of migration research has consisted of the intersections of migration and remittances. This overemphasis on remittances obscures the... Read more

List of Tables. List of Box and Figures. List of Abbreviations. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Children ‘Left Behind’ Negotiating Parental Migration: Preliminary Results from a State-Wide Survey S. Irudaya Rajan and Aparna Nair 2. Voice of the Parents: Left Behind Meera Balarajan 3. Ways of Ageing and the Meaning of Death: Transnational Families and Ageing Parents Shaping Intergenerational Solidarity Mathilde Plard 4. Life-Long Mobilities and its Impact on the Elderly Manja Bomhoff 5. Impact of Migration on the Elderly: The Kerala Experience K. C. Zachariah and S. Irudaya Rajan 6. ‘There is No Feeling of [Belongingness]; in India We Know Everybody’: Daily and Social Life Experiences of Older Indian Immigrants in the United States Karuna Sharma and Candace L. Kemp 7. Economic Impact of Migration on the Family: The Case of International Female Labour Migration R. S. Reshmi and Sayeed Unisa 8. Husbands’ Out-Migration and Familial Support at Origin: An Insight on Left-Behind Wives Sujata Ganguly and Sayeed Unisa 9. Adapting, Adjusting and Accommodating: Social Costs of Migration to Saudi Arabia S. Irudaya Rajan and Jolin Joseph 10. Transnational Masculinity: Indian Nurses’ Husbands in Ireland Marie Percot 11. Migration, Remittance, and Contraceptive Use in India Apoorva Jadhav 12. Peasant Migrations and Transition Costs: An Exploratory Analysis R. Vijay 13. Nurse Emigration from Kerala: ‘Brain Circulation’ or ‘Trap’? Margaret Walton-Roberts and S. Irudaya Rajan 14. Protecting Indian Migrant Workers through Bilateral Agreements and MoUs: Are They Enough? Piyasiri Wickramasekara 15. Facilitating Skilled Mobility under Preferential Arrangements Rupa Chanda 16. Capitalist Development and the Informalization of Labour Markets in India Moushumi Basu 17. Global Crisis and the Return of Indian Emigrant Workers from West Asia: Findings of a Survey of Return Emigrants in Kerala B. A. Prakash 18. Mobility of Women Workers from South Asia to the Gulf: Stakeholders’ Responses Rakkee Thimothy 19. Remittances to India: Performance, Relative Stability and Current Research Concerns Milly Sil. About the Editor. Notes on Contributors. Index

Biography

S. Irudaya Rajan is Chair Professor, Research Unit on International Migration, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

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