ABSTRACT
The migration of Indian nationals to the Gulf has been significant since the 1970s and prominent in the current times. Currently, more data tends to be available on the Indians in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) than in rest of the Gulf countries and focused studies on Indian migrants living in the six host countries of the Gulf is relatively small (for instance, Percot 2006; Onley 2007; Ali 2010; Gardner 2010, 2011; Venier 2011; Vora 2011; Osella and Osella 2012; Rajan and Joseph 2013). Statistics and research from the perspective of the home country at the migration research unit of the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) is encouraging about the impact of migration and remittances on India and particularly Kerala (Zachariah and Rajan 2012; Rajan 2013).
