ABSTRACT
India Migration Report 2015 explores migration and its crucial linkages with gender. This volume:
• studies important issues such as irregular migration, marriage migration and domestic labour migration, as well as the interconnections of migration, gender and caste;
• highlights the relationship between economics and changing gender dynamics brought about by migration; and
• documents first-hand experiences of migrants from across India.
Part of the prestigious annual series, this work will be useful to scholars and researchers of development studies, economics, migration and diaspora studies, and sociology. It will also interest policy-makers and government institutions working in the area.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|17 pages
Migrant women at the discourse–policy nexus
Indian domestic workers in Saudi Arabia
chapter 3|18 pages
Stepping into the man's shoes
Emigrant domestic workers as breadwinners and the gender norm in Kerala
chapter 4|18 pages
Economic migration of women
Challenges and policy with reference to Indian emigration to the Gulf
chapter 5|11 pages
Addressing the missing link
Women domestic workers migrating from South Asia to the Gulf
chapter 10|20 pages
Reducing vulnerabilities of ‘women in migration'
Cross-border migration experience within South Asia
chapter 16|16 pages
Survival, struggle and the promise of a new future
Living and working conditions of migrant workers in Kerala
