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This Handbook is a charting exercise to determine contemporary patterns of Indian migration to Southeast Asia. It will determine two waves/sectors of the Indian migration process to Southeast Asia, high skilled migration and semi-skilled to low skilled migration. However, such a research project is not complete without understanding the context of social and political dilemmas of Indian communities in Southeast Asia as well as the interstitial spaces some Indian migrants or migrant communities might fall through as stateless Indians or Indian communities. The Handbook is premised largely on Indian-ASEAN, twenty-five years of partnering relations in diplomacy, politics, economy, people to people exchange, human capital development and exchange as well as coordinated infrastructural development. It reinforces the much-discussed Look East and current Act East initiatives of the Indian government, highlighting cooperation with the Southeast Asian and East Asian economies, as some political perspectives suggest, to counterbalance China s economic influence in the region.
List of contents
Part I: Introduction.- 1. Indians and Indian Diaspora in Southeast Asia.- Part II: Indian Communities in South East Asia.- 2. Indian Community in Vietnam.- 3. Act East policy and the politics of the non-recognized Thai-Indian diasporic community in Thailand.- 4. Indians in Singapore: A Community in Flux.- 5. Migrant Entrepreneurship: Indian Businesses in Southern Philippines.- 6. The Indian Migrant Community in Laos: A socio - cultural understanding.- 7. Indians in Myanmar.- 8. Tracing the Footsteps: The Legacy of the Indian Community in Malaysia.- 9. Conclusion. 10. Indian Migration to Indonesia.- 11. Indian Diaspora in Timor-Leste.- 12. Indian diaspora in Cambodia.- 13. Indians in Brunei: Journey, network, and diasporic life.- Part III: High skilled migrants to South East Asia.- 14. Trends of High Skilled Indian Migration to Southeast Asia.- 15. The Everyday Law and Life of Indian Expatriates in Malaysia.- 16. Skilled migration and the Indian diaspora in Thailand.- 17. Contemporary Indian high skilled migration to Indonesia: Trends and Challenges.- 18. Indian Professionals in the Information Technology Enabled Services and Companies in the Philippines.- 19. Indians in the Lion City: Congruity and Fissures between Old Singaporean Indians and New Indian Expat Professionals.- Part IV: Semi skilled to Low skilled migration.- 20. Migration intermediaries and the brokerage of mobilities.- 21. Home Away from Home: Exploring South Asian Migrant Workers Participation in the Agricultural Sector in Malaysia.- 22. Low-skilled Indian migrants in South East Asia.- 23.
About the author
S. Irudaya Rajan is Chair of the International Institute of Migration and Development, Kerala, India. Prior to this, he was a Professor at the Centre for Development Studies. Prof. Rajan is the Founder Editor in Chief of Migration and Development (Sage) and the editor of two Routledge series - India Migration Report and South Asia Migration Report. He has coordinated nine large-scale migration surveys in Kerala since 1998 (with K.C. Zachariah) and replicated the Kerala model of migration surveys in other states, including Goa (2008), Punjab (2009), Tamil Nadu (2015), and Odisha (2023) and has been instrumental in similar surveys in Gujarat (2011), and Jharkhand (2023).
Summary
This Handbook is a charting exercise to determine contemporary patterns of Indian migration to Southeast Asia. It will determine two waves/sectors of the Indian migration process to Southeast Asia, high skilled migration and semi-skilled to low skilled migration. However, such a research project is not complete without understanding the context of social and political dilemmas of Indian communities in Southeast Asia as well as the interstitial spaces some Indian migrants or migrant communities might fall through as stateless Indians or Indian communities. The Handbook is premised largely on Indian-ASEAN, twenty-five years of partnering relations in diplomacy, politics, economy, people to people exchange, human capital development and exchange as well as coordinated infrastructural development. It reinforces the much-discussed ‘Look East’ and current ‘Act East’ initiatives of the Indian government, highlighting cooperation with the Southeast Asian and East Asian economies, as some political perspectives suggest, to counterbalance China’s economic influence in the region.
