ABSTRACT
The first India Migration Report (IMR) was released in the year 2010 with the support from the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, and the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA), Government of India. Due to its popularity among the migration scholars both in India and abroad, I decided to bring out the annual reports for four consecutive years from 2011 through 2014 with new themes, covering subjects from the social costs of migration to diaspora and development. On the completion of five years, Rout-ledge decided to bring out a box set comprising a series covering five years of publication of the Indian Migration Report and released it on the 90th birthday of K. C. Zachariah, honorary professor at CDS.
