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Author:   S. Irudaya Rajan ,  Marie Percot
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.990kg
ISBN:  

9780415685665

ISBN 10:   0415685664
Pages:   450
Publication Date:   17 October 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Boxes -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Dynamics of Indian Migration/S. Irudaya Rajan, Aurelie Varrel and Marie Percot -- I: Historical and Current Perspectives -- 1. British Colonialism and International Migration from India: Four Destinations/Prakash C. Jain -- 2. Sikh Migration to France/Christine Moliner -- 3. Tamils in France/Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud -- II: International Perspectives -- 4. Immigration Policies of the GCC Countries: Implications and Responses/Zakir Hussain -- 5. Development of Entrepreneurial Initiatives in the UAE among Kerala Emigrants/Philippe Venier -- 6. Transcending Boundaries: Indian Nurses in Internal and International Migration/Marie Percot and Sreelekha Nair -- 7. Governmentality, Social Stigma and Quasi-citizenship: Gender Negotiations of Migrant Women Domestic Workers from Kerala/V. J. Varghese and S. Irudaya Rajan -- III: Skilled Emigration and Return Migration -- 8. Bridging the Binaries of Skilled and Unskilled Migration from India/Binod Khadria -- 9. Malaysia: A Launching Pad in the Global Circulation of the Indian Software Professionals/Eric Leclerc -- 10. Return Migration in the Light of the New Indian Diaspora Policy: Emerging Transnationalism/Aurelie Varrel -- IV: Emigration Experiences from Punjab and Kerala -- 11. In Search of Distant Shores: Exploring Contemporary Emigration from the Indian Punjab/Aswini Kumar Nanda and Jacques Veron -- 12. Economic and Social Dynamics of Migration in Kerala, 1998-2003: Analysis of Panel Data/K. C. Zachariah and S. Irudaya Rajan -- 13. Household Remittances, Inequality and Poverty: Evidence from the State of Kerala/Adeline Pelletier -- About the Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

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S. Irudaya Rajan, Chair Professor, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, Research Unit on International Migration, Center for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Marie Percot, Researcher, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Urbaine/Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Anthropologie du Contemporain (EHESS/CNRS), Paris, France.

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