India Migration Report 2012

This volume is a collection of articles dealing with various dimensions of the Global Financial Crisis and its economic and social impact in terms of governance, emigration, remittances, return migration and re-integration. The crisis, which had its origin in the United States in 2008, spread its economic effects on developed as well as developing countries. Some of these countries were able to recover in the short run while some are in the process of recovery, with continuous efforts by both national governments and international agencies. In this backdrop, is there any impact on the outflow of emigrants from the countries of origin and inflow of remittances to the countries of destination? The third volume in the annual series 'India Migration Report' answers the question through rigorous quantitative and qualitative analyses and fieldwork both in the Gulf region and South Asia, and concludes that both emigration and remittances are more resilient than expected. This report: contains findings based on an extensive survey conducted in Kerala;has additional evaluations based on other surveys and case studies conducted in different parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka to reflect on the consequences of the global crisis on the countries of origin, as well as a quick assessment and site visits to the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar and Malaysia;includes essays that examine the linkages between emigration and remittances based on international data from the World Bank, the International Labour Organization, the International Organization of Migration, the United Nations and other organizations that closely deal with international migration. It will be of interest to students and scholars of migration studies, sociology, law, economics, gender studies, diaspora studies, international relations and demography, apart from non-governmental organizations, policy-makers and government institutions working in the field of migration.

Making the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party's nuclear tests in 1998 its starting point, this book examines how opinion amongst India's 'attentive' public shifted from supporting nuclear abstinence to accepting - and even feeling a need for - a more assertive policy, by examining the complexities of the debate in India on nuclear policy in the 1990s.The study seeks to account for the shift in opinion by looking at the parallel processes of how nuclear policy became an important part of the public discourse in India, and what it came to symbolise for the country's intelligentsia during this decade. It argues that the pressure on New Delhi in the early 1990s to fall in line with the non-proliferation regime, magnified by India's declining global influence at the time, caused the issue to cease being one of defence, making it a focus of nationalist pride instead. The country's nuclear programme thus emerged as a test of its ability to withstand external compulsions, guaranteeing not so much the sanctity of its borders as a certain political idea of it - that of a modern, scientific and, most importantly, 'sovereign' state able to defend its policies and set its goals.

Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements 1. The Global Economic Crisis and Governance of Human Mobility Bimal Ghosh 2. Migration and Development Linkages Re-examined in the Context of the Global Economic Crisis S. Irudaya Rajan and B. A. Prakash 3. The Global Economic Crisis and Impact on Migration from South-Asian and South-East Asian Countries: What are the Lessons to be Learned? Vanessa Steinmayer 4. The Effect of the Global Economic Imbalance on Migrant Workers and Economies of the Gulf Cooperation Council Olga Marzovilla 5. The Financial Crisis in the Gulf and its Impact on South Asian Migration and Remittances S. Irudaya Rajan and D. Narayana 6. Dubai Model and the Impact of the Financial Crisis on South Asian Migrant Workers in the United Arab Emirates D. Narayana and Vinoj Abraham 7. Global Financial Crisis and Its Consequences on Migrants in Qatar: Macro and Micro Perspectives Hrushikesh Mallick and Udaya Shankar Mishra 8. Global Financial Crisis and the Migrant Labour Market: A Study of Kuwait K. Pushpangadan and M. Parameswaran 9. Low-Skilled Indian Construction Workers in the Gulf, Singapore and Malaysia: Return to India, Reintegration and Re-migration Auke Boere 10. Impact of the Global Recession on Migration and Remittances: The Kerala Experience K. C. Zachariah and S. Irudaya Rajan 11. Global Financial Crisis and Return of South Asian Gulf Migrants: Patterns and Determinants of their Integration to Local Labour Markets Vinoj Abraham and S. Irudaya Rajan 12. Inclusive Growth and Economic Crises: Labour Migration and Poverty in India Arjan de Haan 13. Food Inflation and Financial Crisis in India: Impact on Women and Children S. Mahendra Dev 14. Migration, Human Rights and Development S. Irudaya Rajan and Charles Nellari 15. Remittances and Financial Participation: A Household-Level Analysis in Kerala Deepa Iyer 16. International Labour Migration: Global Words, National Leads and Local Deeds S. Krishna Kumar 17. Broadening Exchanges and Changing Institutions: Multiple Sites of Economic Transnationalism S. Irudaya Rajan and V. J. Varghese