1st Edition
India Migration Report 2022 Health Professionals' Migration
India Migration Report 2022 is one of the first volumes to focus comprehensively on Indian health professionals’ migration. The essays in the volume discuss the reasons, challenges and opportunities that daunt and prompt health professionals to migrate within and outside India.
This volume:
• Explores the history of migration of health professionals, especially nurses from India;
• Focuses in economic and social drivers of migration among health professionals;
• Examines shifting patterns in migration as well as emergence of new destinations for migrants;
• Studies the economic and social impact of COVID-19 among migrant health professionals;
• Highlights the influence of remittances on rural economies in India.
Timely, data-driven and drawing on exhaustive fieldwork, the volume looks at Indian health professionals in North America, Middle East, Asia Pacific and South Asia. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of development studies, public health, public policy, economics, demography, sociology and social anthropology, and migration and diaspora studies.
1. The women who paved the way: at the beginning of Indian nurses’ migration
Marie Percot
2. Decision-Making of International Migration: A Case Study of Indian Nurses in New Zealand
Yuko Tsujita, Hisaya Oda and S Irudaya Rajan
3. Analysing Health professional Mobility from India to Canada
Ayona Bhattacharjee
4. Becoming a Migrant Health Care worker: Interrogating Gender and Migration
Shruti Gupta
5. Beyond the Caring Obligation: Indian Nurses Negotiating Nursing Care and Migration
Neha Adsul and Rohit Shah
6. Indian-EU Healthcare workforce migration in data, 2010-2020
Gunjan Sondhi
7. An Analysis of Nurses’ Intention not to Migrate: Evidence from Nurses in Tamil Nadu
Hisaya Oda, Yuko Tsujita and S Irudaya Rajan
8. Health Worker Mobility from India: Trends and Opportunities for International Cooperation
Rupa Chanda and Sudeshna Ghosh
9. The transmutation of care and emotional labour for a technologically advanced workplace: A case of Indian nurse migration
Neha Adsul
10. India and the global provision of health professionals: Recent developments and potential policy responses
Margaret Walton-Roberts and S Irudaya Rajan
11. Aspirations of Health Professionals in India for Migration Abroad: A Pre-Covid and Covid-time Comparison of Nurses
Binod Khadria and Shekhar Tokas
12. South-South migration: Southern interpretations of a Northern discourse
Themrise Khan
13. Non-payment of Wages among Gulf returnees in the first wave of COVID 19
S Irudaya Rajan and C S Akhil
14. Do remittances affect labour supply decisions at a household level in India?
Amaani Bashir
15. COVID 19 and International Migrants: Results from Post-Flood Migrant Survey in Kerala
S Irudaya Rajan and Roshan R Menon
16. Internal Migrant Enumeration and Service Provision: A Municipal Governance Approach
Ananta Kukreja and Asmeeta Das Sharma
17. Shutdown Workers during the COVID-19 pandemic times in Tamil Nadu
S Irudaya Rajan and Bernard D Sami
18. Understanding Economic Well-Being of the Elderly Return Migrants in India
Pinak Sarkar and Himanshu Chaurasia
19. Emerging Relationship between Migration and Development in West Bengal
Jyoti Parimal Sarkar
20. Migration, Remittances and Welfare in Rural Maharashtra
Bhupesh Gopal Chintamani
21. Drivers of Economic and Social Change: The Impact of Indian Workers to the Gulf
Shibinu S
Biography
S. Irudaya Rajan is Chairman of the International Institute of Migration and Development (IIMAD), India and chair of the KNOMAD (the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development) thematic working group on internal migration and urbanization, World Bank. Earlier, he was Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, and Chair, Research Unit on International Migration (RUIM), funded by the erstwhile Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, Government of India (2006-2016). Dr Rajan is the Founding Editor in Chief of Migration and Development (Taylor and Francis), Refugee Survey Quarterly (Editorial Board member) and the editor of two Routledge series - India Migration Report and South Asia Migration Report. He has published extensively in national and international journals on demographic, social, economic, political and psychological implications of international migration. He has also coordinated eight major large-scale migration surveys in Kerala since 1998 (with K C Zachariah), Goa (2008), Punjab (2009), Tamil Nadu (2015) and instrumental for Gujarat (2011).
