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.
Table of Contents:
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
About the Author :
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.
Review :
“The India Migration Report, an annual series, under the expert stewardship of Professor Rajan, has just witnessed the publication of its 14th edition. Researchers and policy-makers on all aspects of Indian migration eagerly await its appearance each year, as it commentates upon, and analyses, highly contemporary, cutting-edge issues and debates. 2023 is no exception, with the focus this time upon Indian student migration. Focussing largely upon international student migration, all aspects of this phenomenon are covered – from the role of families and agents in the migration process to the health and financial impacts of student migration. The geographical reach of the volume is impressive, with studies on Indian student migration to Canada, the United States and Eastern and Western Europe. The impact of COVID-19 and its aftermath is also analysed. As we have come to expect with the IMR, the research upon which the chapters are based is highly rigorous and up-to-date, the analysis presented is crisp and insightful and the conclusions and recommendations presented will have direct social, political and policy impact. It should be essential reading for scholars, practitioners and policy-makers concerned with migration in India and beyond.” — Professor Steve Taylor, Centre for Global Development, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, United Kingdom
“The annual India migration reports edited by Professor Rajan have made a significant contribution of our knowledge about the complex changing dynamics of Indian international migration. Now moving into the 14th edition, the collection is a testament to the intellectual labour of Professor Rajan, and his ability to attract a wide range of early career to senior scholars in the field of migration studies. The collections are organized by specific themes, and the contributions are always novel, timely and provide unique insights into emerging issues in student migration. The effort taken to collate these collections on a regular basis has contributed immensely to researchers’ awareness of changes taking place in Indian migration dynamics.” — Professor Margaret Walton-Roberts, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.
“For more than a decade the India Migration Reports have served as an outstanding source of information and inspiration for researchers and policy makers on various facets of migration. With contributions from well-established and leading academics as well as emerging scholars, IMR 2023 is no exception and is an excellent addition to this long-standing series. Among other issues, the volume deals with an exhaustive set of concerns faced by Indian students accessing international education. The volume is topical, stimulating and deals with several under researched areas.” — Professor Arjun Bedi, Deputy Rector for Research, International Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands
