1st Edition

South Asia Migration Report 2017 Recruitment, Remittances and Reintegration

Edited By S. Irudaya Rajan Copyright 2017
350 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

368 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

368 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

South Asians comprise over 15 per cent of all international migrating population, among the highest in the world. The countries of the Persian Gulf are perhaps still the largest recipients of migrant workers. A unique economy has developed between these two regions, with all South Asian nations being major beneficiaries and featuring among the top twenty countries receiving maximum remittances... Read more

Preface 1. Migration, Transnational Flows, and Development in India: A Regional Perspective Carol Upadhya and Mario Rutten 2. The Influence of Vulnerability on Migration intentions in Afghanistan Craig Loschmann and Melissa Siegel 3. Brains, Capital, Charity, Soft Power: The Skilled South Asian Diaspora in Developed Countries Rupa Chanda 4. South Asia-Gulf Migratory Corridor: Emerging Patterns, Prospects and Challenges Ginu Zacharia Oommen 5. Challenges of Labour Recruitment for Overseas Employment: The Bangladesh Experience C. R. Abrar and M. Motasim Billah 6. Making Migration Free: An Analysis of Nepal’s ‘Free-Visa, Free-Ticket’ Scheme Bandita Sijapati, Mohamed Ayub and Himalaya Kharel 7. Estimating the Impact of International Remittance on Households Expenditure in Bangladesh Selim Raihan, Tasneem Siddiqui and Raisul A. Mahmood 8. Intra-Household Dynamics of Remittance Practices: A Case Study of Bangladesh Syeda Rozana Rashid and Mohammad Jalal Uddin Sikder 9. Migration in The Global Recession and in its Recovery in Sri Lanka Myrtle Perera 10. Returning home: Challenges of reintegration Suwendrani Jayaratne, Nipuni Perera, Neluka Gunasekera and Nisha Arunatilake 11. Labour emigration and emigration policies in Nepal: A Political-Economic Analysis Jagannath Adhikari 12. Internal Migration and Labour Mobility in Pakistan Sadia Ishfaq, Vaqar Ahmed, Danish Hassan, and Asif Javed Index

Biography

S. Irudaya Rajan is Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. His recent works include Politics of Migration (with A. Didar Singh, 2016); Researching International Migration (with K. C. Zachariah, 2015); and Emigration in 21st-Century India (with Krishna Kumar, 2014). He is also the editor of the annual India Migration Report.