India Migration Report 2016

Gulf migration
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-21570-2
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

Reihe: India Migration Report

India Migration Report 2016 discusses migration to the Persian Gulf region. This volume:

- looks at contemporary labour recruitment and policy, both in India and in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries;

- explores gender issues in migration to Gulf countries; and

- brings together the latest field data on migrants across states in India.

Part of the prestigious annual series, this volume will interest scholars and researchers of economics, development studies, migration and diaspora studies, labour studies, and sociology. It will also be useful to policymakers and government institutions working in the area.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rajan, Irudaya

Rajan, S. Irudaya

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Deterritorialisation of Keralam: economy, society and polity K.N. Harilal and C.S. Akhil

2 Resettlement of Indian transnational labour migrant families of Gulf: questions of income, neoliberal subjectivity and oikonomia Shareena Banu C.P.

3 The need for systemic reform in migrant labour recruitment Ray Jureidini

4 Institutional strengthening of the offices of labour attachés of India in Gulf: field experiences from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar S. Irudaya Rajan and Arya Suresh

5 Contemporary Indian labour migration in the GCC region: emerging challenges and opportunities George S. Naufal, Froilan T. Malit Jr and Ismail H. Genc

6 Working and living conditions of migrant workers in the GCC Abdoulaye Diop, Kien Trung Le and Michael C. Ewers

7 Are India’s policies increasing the vulnerability of its female migrants in the Arab Gulf countries? Radhika Kanchana

8 Coming to Qatar: a snapshot of the experience of Indian labour migrants 106Arjun S. Bedi, S. Irudaya Rajan and Ganesh Seshan

9 Tamil emigrants in the United Arab Emirates Chitra Ranganathan

10 Protection of labour migrants at destination countries: a note on the Indian Community Welfare Fund T.l.S. Bhaskar

11 A profile of second-generation Indian high school students in Kuwait Nasra M. Shah

12 Gulf migration in a time of regulation: do migration controls and labour market restrictions in Saudi Arabia produce irregularity? S. Irudaya Rajan and Jolin Joseph

13 The micropolitics of Indian recruitment agencies: India-Gulf migration from a local Indian perspective Mary E. Breeding

14 Gulf migration beyond the economic lens: configuring the neoliberal self Laavanya Kathiravelu

15 Evaluating population estimates for migrants in the United Arab Emirates: a demographic analysis of a migration-driven population Katharine A. Allen

16 Emigration and remittances: results from the sixth Kerala migration survey K.C. Zachariah and S. Irudaya Rajan

17 Contested urban landscapes: development-induced displacement, involuntary resettlement and state violence in Kochi, Kerala K. Indu and S. Irudaya Rajan

18 Cross-border migration and conflicts in Assam Rikil Chyrmang

19 Appraisal of MGNREGP on distress migration in Andhra Pradesh Vijay Korra

20 Factors associated with long-distance labour migration: a study on Bengali construction workers in Kerala Md. Selim Reja and Bhaswati Das

Über Autor(innen)

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).