ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the rapid increase in overall international mobility for education and employment post-globalization, especially in the Global South. It explores internal student migration in India and its consequent links with the work-study interconnections that exist worldwide. Consequently, while highlighting the dismal provision and limited accessibility of higher education for students from migrant-origin states (such as Uttar Pradesh and Bihar) that prompts their out-migration to several ‘educational hubs’ elsewhere, the chapter argues that in such a scenario, internationally comparable factors are at play even domestically in the context of migrant student aspirations as well as family decision-making.
