ABSTRACT
India Migration Report 2020 examines how migration surveys operate to collect, analyse and bring to life socio-economic issues in social science research.
With a focus on the strategies and the importance of information collected by Kerala Migration Surveys since 1998, the volume:
- Explores the effect of male migration on women left behind; attitudes of male migrants within households; the role of transnational migration and it effect on attitudes towards women;
- Investigates consumption of remittances and their utilization; asset accumulation and changing economic statuses of households; financial inclusion of migrants and migration strategies during times of crises like the Kerala floods of 2018;
- Highlights the twenty-year experience of the Kerala Migration Surveys, how its model has been adapted in various states and led to the proposed large-scale India Migration Survey; and
- Explores issues of migration politics and governance, as well as return migration strategies of other countries to provide a roadmap for India.
The volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of development studies, economics, demography, sociology and social anthropology, and migration and diaspora studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|22 pages
Large-scale migration surveys
Replication of the Kerala model of migration surveys to India Migration Survey 2024
chapter 5|23 pages
Impact of male migrants and their return, on women left behind
The case of Kerala, India
chapter 14|12 pages
Financial cost of international migration from South India
What does data spanning three decades tell us?
chapter 15|13 pages
Exploitative or ethical?
Understanding the labour recruitment practices in the 21st century from Kerala
chapter 16|26 pages
Remittances and overseas migrants’ economic shocks
Evidence from Kerala’s recipient households after the 2008 global crisis
chapter 18|33 pages
Migration and asset accumulation in South India
Comparing gains to internal and international migration from Kerala
chapter 20|13 pages
The Janus-faced dilemma of Migration as Adaptation
The impact of rapid onset floods on labour migration in Kerala, India, 2018
chapter 21|22 pages
Climate change, migration and development
The aftermath of the 2018 floods in Kerala
