This volume explores the reasons behind, and impact of, the migration of South Asian nationals (from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bhutan and Maldives, Afghanistan and Myanmar) in the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE and Bahrain). The authors provide a...

1. Facets of Indian mobility : an update / S. Irudaya Rajan and U.S. Mishra -- 2. Internal migration in India : are the underclass more mobile? / R.B. Bhagat -- 3. Rural-to-urban migration in India : a district-level analysis / Arup Mitra and Mayumi Murayama -- 4. Short-duration migration in...

1. Introduction : emigration governance and labour recruitment -- 2. The making of the institution : continuities and ruptures -- 3. The process of emigration : mounting costs and paltry returns -- 4. Vulnerability, corruption and institutional failure -- 5. Between unfettered and controlled...

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...