ABSTRACT
South Asia Migration Report 2020 documents key themes of exploitation and entrepreneurship of migrants from the region.
This volume:
• Includes dedicated fieldwork from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal;
• Analyses the impact of South-Asia-migrant-established businesses;
• Examines legal and legislative recourse against exploitation in destination countries;
• Factors in how migration as a phenomenon negotiates with gender, environment and even healthcare.
This book will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of economics, development studies, migration and diaspora studies, gender studies, labour studies and sociology. It will also be useful to policymakers, think tanks and government institutions working in the area.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|27 pages
Productive vs. consumptive uses of remittances by households
Evidence from Chitwan Valley of Nepal
chapter 5|20 pages
Toward mapping employers and clients
The rise of recruitment fee advocacy and the need for market data in the Gulf construction sector
chapter 6|27 pages
Migrant businesses in Saudi Arabia
Towards an economic sociology of Gulf migration
chapter 7|20 pages
From environmental disaster to migratory disaster
The Omani network of Bangladeshi fishermen
chapter 8|23 pages
Diaspora volunteering
A tool for development or a channel for diasporic (re)engagement with countries of origin - a case study from Nepal
chapter 9|31 pages
Restructuring of Nepal’s economy, agrarian change, and livelihood outcomes
The role of migration and remittances
