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The India Migration Report 2023: Student Migration is one of the first books that attempts to comprehensively explore the various nuances of Indian international student migration factoring in multiple factors that influence the migration journey of Indian students. It also looks into other migration stories including internal and international returnees, various impacts of remittances, and migration in the context of the pandemic.
This volume:
- Inspect the factors driving the student migration from India, accounting for both the historical and current happenings influencing these factors. Following the pandemic, the book highlights the challenges faced by Indian international students in accessing health care and other related services which goes on to push them into vulnerable situations
- Outlines the reasoning behind Indian students' decision to emigrate and how families play an important role in influencing key migration decisions made by students and the different patterns of student migration observed in India
- Examines the employment challenges experienced, particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic, by the highly skilled Indian migrants and Indian international students
- Describes the role that recruitment and consultancy agencies play in international student mobility (ISM) and examines the intricate relationship between migrant agencies and migration facilitation
- Investigates the psychological, economic and social challenges faced by Indian international students during their migration journey both during and after the completion of their course abroad
- Provides a critical overview of the conditions of both internal and international returnees to different parts of India
- Studies the impact of remittances on migrant households including their consumption patterns and human capital investment
- Analyses interstate migration networks through the prism of gender and critically assesses how gender migration patterns have altered throughout time
Scholars, students, researchers, academicians, policymakers or anyone with an interest in migration, migration politics, economics, social psychology, migration policies, development studies, sociology, social anthropology and gender studies will find this book on Indian student migration extremely informative. The book is a comprehensive collection of various studies that look into the multiple aspects of student migration but also extend to other pertinent issues of Indian migration that are extremely relevant at this given point in time.
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1 Indian student migration: How the influx of Indian students in Canada has exposed barriers to health access
2 International Student Migration: Family Mediated Migration Trajectories
3 Complex Pathways of Indian Highly Skilled Migrants and International Students to Canada
4 "They take the money from Karan and give it to Karen": Education-Migration and grassroots advocacy for Punjabi International Students
5 International Student Mobility: The Role of Brokers
6 "To Whom should I Complain"? Indian International Students' Differential Recruitments in Greater Toronto Area Colleges and the Role of Agencies
7 Challenges Facing International College Students in Canada
8 Navigating an education through the Pandemic- The (Im)Mobilities of Aspiration among Student Migrants of Kerala
9 Motivations among Indian students to study medicine in Eastern Europe countries
10 The Mental Health Struggle of International Students
11 Recruitment Experiences of International Indian Students
12 Brothers in the Kitchen: a multidisciplinary look at migration through live-documentary
13 Role of Household Socio-Economic Status in Determining the Impact of Remittances on Human Capital Investment
14 COVID-19 and Return Migrant Construction Workers in Mumbai
15 Gulf Return Migrants in India: Socio-economic Reintegration of Gulf Returnees in Rural West Bengal
16 Do individuals' life cycle earnings and consumption differ in migrant and non-migrant households in rural areas?
17 Social Enterprise: The Impact of covid-19 on migrant communities within India
18 A Computational Study of Indian Interstate Migration through the Gender Lens
19 Migration and Urban Informal Labour Market: A Study of Labour Addas in the City of Hyderabad
20 Transition from Low to High Shades of Precarity among Migrants in Tamil Nadu
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S Irudaya Rajan is Chair of the International Institute of Migration and Development, India and also chair of the World Bank KNOMAD working group on internal migration and urbanization. He is the editor of two Rouledge Series - India Migration Report (since 2010) and South Asia Migration Report (since 2017) and Founding Editor in Chief, Migration and Development (Sage). Rajan has published extensively in national and international journals on demographic, social, economic, political and psychological implications of international migration and coordinated nine large-scale migration surveys in Kerala since 1998 (with K C Zachariah), Goa (2008), Punjab (2009), Tamil Nadu (2015) and instrumental for Gujarat (2011), Jharkhand (2023) and Odisha (2023). As a princiapl investigator, Rajan is currently coorindinaing the Kerala Migration Survey 2023 with the financial support of the Department of Non-Resident Keralite Affairs, Government of Kerala throuhg Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation, Kerala.
